Those group pictures taken of kids playing and mucking about also shows how they dressed which gives some idea of the era. The sad thing is, if you tried to do that today you would be arrested as some kind of deviant, so the kids of today will in the future miss out on being able to look back and enjoy the photos of their youth and dress sense.
They demolished the slum houses and put up slum tower blocks Just because they had indoor plumbing doesn't mean they were not slums Terrible isolating tower blocks. In human The condescending architects don't live in them
Then they knocked down the tower blocks and made a park! my nan lived in the middle block of John F Kennedy Heights Everton Brow and loved it! then again she faced the Mersey and loved the view of the river!
I was Brought up Page walk just of Everton Brow/William Henry st area. The instructor or teacher on the left in the trampolining picture was the head master from my old junior school Salisbury Street top of Everton Brow when it closed we were moved to Rosscommon street school and he became Deputy head back in 1979/80. His name was Mr Kirkham he also ran a Gymnastics class on a saturday morning from my Old senior School John Hamilton. When i was at Sailsbury Street we had a great teacher called Miss Wright who gave us some great lessons like Biology, History and some great English lessons learning was Great and set me up in Life but when we moved to Rosscommon St i went from Miss Wright to a Horror called Miss Pickles who put us in a corner and said read out of this book or write these numbers down. Thank God i only had 1 term with her before i moved to senior school. I could not go to any of the schools round my area as we were Church of England and the area was Catholic schools but i had some great times. I cant believe you have a picture of the piggery's playground the picture was taken on top of the slide it was called the whale slide cause the hill it was built on looked like a whale. i got my head split wide open when i was 9 years old there by a Older girl called Anne Conner she had a plank with nails in it and she hit me over the head with it. Great Vlog
Like Beirut Everton Valley was. Me and me mates used to get the number 30 bus and get off at nethy rd and walk over the hill to Breckfield rd and Cardinal Godfrey school laughing at the bigotry painted on the flats - "no popery", "kill the pope" etc. Some real scum lived around there.
its weird watching this as I remember the Radcliffe estate being built . and the piggeries . hope their replacements are a bit better thought out. town planning on acid !! well it was the sixties ! my dad was from Netherfield road they were rehoused in clubmoor. or as me granny called it "a dessert wit winders " they kept getting lost cos all the houses looked identical ..
Brilliant ! Ime not from Liverpool But I used 2 go and stop at my cousins in the 70s he lived on Neston St . He used to take me round Walton area most So these pictures bring back loads of Good memories! !!
Never forget scotland road area,great homer street,Its gone to the immigrants know i as a kid used to work on a cheese stall now the market like the shops has been ruined goodbye to good memories
Lived on penyhn street, crossed over to school,, teacher miss pickles what a teacher they were the days 70s+ make our own go cart out of old prams go down efc brow couldnt stop lol
I remember at Christmas we had a magician come to entertain us. All was well till he started doing tricks with different coloured hankies, Cheering or booing for red or blue hankies was ok. but when it started for green or orange Barber went ape and stepped in to warn everyone, I can see why now, but at the time he just seemed like a spoil sport.
I was at Salisbury St school and had a Fantastic teacher called Miss wright back in 79 our school closed and we were all moved to Rosscommon and was put in Miss Pickles class she was not a teacher she was a horror. I went from leaning stuff like Biology, History and English to sitting at a desk writing stuff out of books it was terrible. I remember miss wright having a go at Miss pickles over her teaching so funny. I only had 1 term with pickles thank god.
Barry metcalf, now there’s a name I remember well. Me are pen, Joan,an Tina all went to penyhn. We were the ones who lived in the eagle volts. Top of the street.
wow! this brings back memories my parents were born in anfield road and as a treat on saturday was a trip to new brighton on the ferry i it was an ocean cruise to me happy days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I am an Everton lad, now living on the wirral, originally from Radcliffe street, then Crosbie heights, great photographs but time moves on. I went to SFX juniors with Mr O.Keefe as headmaster, discipline worked for us,
had to walk from logan towers (athol street) to margret street(by water tower) back in the seventies. uncle lived behind kwick save on great homer. what a scary walk for a young child.
I was brought up in knotty ash but my husband was born in Rosscommon Street, and also lived in Canterbury Heights, 7th floor in the 70's..........how sad that these comunities were split up, they should have built new houses for them in the same area's,good people with hearts of gold, thanx for the memories.......................x
@liverpoolnatsel Forgive my ignorance, but as iv never been to LIVERPOOL I only know what I hear, but maybe you could tell me, dose any of the OLD city and surrounding area still exist ? I hear lots of reports about how everything is being transformed and modernized but is this really true ? And what about famous docks ? Is any of it still in use ? I would be interested to hear.
liverpoolnatsel on your page you have your age as 38 if so you could not have went to rossy (Rosscommon St) i am 53 now and we were the last year to be taught there,, just an observation mate great school great area
i grew up around netherfield road in the 60s :) the falats in conway street was called brenford heights and millburn heights i remember the old stingo being open thanks for posting enjoyed looking back at the good old day's of liverpool i love my great city :)
remember Tommy Rucks next door but one to Moneypennies,, which teachers can ya remember Mr hodgekinson, Bob Williams Mrs Osbourne & Mr (COME IN) Botham good old days, Oh i almost forgot Mr (winker) Watson &Joe( the pole) caretaker
Great Pictures of the Everton Area Memories will be cherished forever that's one thing that can't be taken away. You can take the Heart out of the area but a lot of people have memories and they will never forget. Thanks for the Memories.
great to see my old stomping ground being a ex Rossy lad from Arkwright st used to spend most nights after school either hanging around greaty or going the Shewsy club(caged 5 aside pitch or the downstairs disco i think they called it MADDOX) i recall my younger days playing in a steery(gocart) in arky and the buzz every sat morn with Greaty market PS just read agood book about this area called the lost tribes of Everton by a falla called Ken Rogers some great pictures in it...
@georgiepye1 GEORGIE PYE ILEFT ROSSIE IN 1958 WHAT YEARS WHERE YOU THERE MY TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS WERE ALSO THERE THEY STILL LIVE IN LPOOL INOW LIVE IN SPAIN BUT LOVED LIVERPOOL VEY MUCH AND STILL DEFEND IT PROUDLY AS A GREAT CITY WITH GREAT PEOPLE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU . REGARDS JOHN PS IWRITE THIS WITH SO MANY THOUGHTS GOING AROUND MY HEAD AND SO MANY MEMORIES
SO MANY MEMORIES IN THIS, I GREW UP IN OPIE STREET THEN MOVED TO BEACON LANE FOR A SHORT WHILE THEN TO CHINA STREET WHER I SPENT SO MANY HAPPY YEARS, THEN WENT TO ROSSIE SCHOOL LOVED EVERY MINUTE SO HAPPY AND SO SAD TO SEE MY OLD SCHOOL GYM TEARS IN MY EYES TYPING THIS, AS I NOW LIVE IN SPAIN AND DONT GET BACK VERY OFTEN .MUCHAS GRACIAS AS THEY SAY HERE MANY MANY THANKS FOR POSTING REGARDS JOHN FROM SPAIN
Hello from Montreal These images remind me of Montreal -- just like the other movies on the old Liverpool that have been uploaded here. Yes, the same mistakes in urban renewal -- and the same triumphs! Need I say more? Cheers
