Kev, the way you speak really does hold people's attention, you are a natural at it. It's so professional. I'm sure you had a few notes to get things as you wanted to say them, but what a fantastic story teller you are. A lot of this is also from your memories, which is something I love to hear because it's real life stuff & I have previously told you that it's such a personal insight into you. This is part of Your Life & you come alive when you talk about it. I think you loved doing this one. 👍
Wow that looks nothing like the rec, I used to play in, back in the 60s. There used to be a high rise block of flats next to the entrance, by the sessions pub. I was born in Leven St. the police station on Westminster Road was at the bottom of our St. and Kirkdale homes was at the top of the street. I went to St. Johns school.... My Grandad told us loads of stories about the sessions and the hangings. Thanks for that Kev, you've just took me on a lovely trip down memory lane 😊 I know there's all new houses now, but it looked better in my day, with all the streets and the community, so many characters back then.... the world seemed a better place, kids could be kids!
Wow, that was so fascinating to hear about Kirkdale Jail, as was. My nan was born in Fountains Rd and would tell tales passed down from family,about the public executions and, unrelated, alleged sightings of 'spring heeled jack' in the area, leaping across the top of buildings! All very weird but I loved listening to her stories. Thanks for a very interesting video ❤
Boss bit of local history info there mate. I used to do nostalgic slideshows in care homes and sheltered accomodations around the city, and I remember some fella telling me about a load of prisoners having to be marched on foot to Walton Prison from Kirkdale when it closed in 1892. Imagine trying to do that these days. Just around the corner from the Rec was Kirkdale Industrial School (later known as Kirkdale Homes) on Wezzy Road, where you will still find one of the stone column gateposts in situ on the estate opposite the school. I got a photo of it a few years ago. Keep up the good work, Lad.
Good watch that Kev some history in our parks. The other one is Grant Gardens by Everton Road and West Derby Road known as the Necropolis. Once a graveyard for over 80,000 burials now a park after the cemetery was closed late 1890s.
I used to play in the rec with my cousins when i was a child,it’s hardly recognisable now,my nanny and grandad lived on Orwell road and used to drink in the sessions with all the family before they moved to new flats on fountains road,around 1975…fantastic childhood memories,thanks for a great video and great information
Kev, this is the first time ive tuned in to your channel, so interesting, we have so much history around merseyside. You should have a look at Bidston village Wirral. Keep it going buddy
Know that area well Kev, lived on North Dingle as a kid back in 1970-1975 ish 👍👍 Remember the Rec lol , the Sessions Pub, played weekend football for the Medlock Pub as well , The Saddle Pub on fountains road is still going apparently 👍👍 Also went to Fonthill primary school (Fonny road lol) the Original Victorian school that they stupidly demolished 🫣that was deffo haunted, by a lady carrying a lamp around at night who hung herself apparently 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Great video Kev, really enjoyed it. I grew up around Everton and there was a massive building there with a bricked up doorway (think it was a water tower?) and we all thought a witch lived in there too 😆 Keep em coming, nice to hear bits of history of our city 🥰 🙏xx
@@Kevcupo It was in Margaret Street in Everton Kev (my mum would take us to Margaret street public baths to get a proper bath once a week and we would always pass it) Not sure if it’s still there but it was a massive impressive building. The bricked up doorway used to freak me out though, we thought a witch had been bricked up in there 🙈🤣 Might be worth a trip over that way for you (it wasn’t too far from brougham terrace) xx
I would just like to add, that I think you are a great presenter, and very knowledgeable, and you totally kept my attention. Well done bud your doing a great job
I really enjoyed this mate. The Liverpool Necropolis opposite The Olympia by The Grafton is interesting. I'm sure my relatives will be amongst the eighty thousand intered there but can't find any information. Keep up the good work lad.👍
Great video Kev, just subscribed mate, love learning more history about Liverpool, I'm from Manchester, but all my family are originally from Liverpool, so love learning about my spiritual home. Keep up the good work mate.
Can remember going back in the 1980's,there was talk that Father Carney of Saint John's church performed some sort of mass & blessings in a few houses around that way. Due to people being afraid,they could hear screams & groans, chains clanking , ghosts. Just terrifying noises, of course it was connected to that kirkdale prison & what went on in it. Father Carney an old Irish priest of the parish passed away quite a few years ago now, what a pity he isn't here to explain. Great video very interesting .
Immediately recognised the park from thumbnail 😂 grew up in area myself in Wykem street never knew the jail was there but I can attest paranormal activities of area great vid. 👍🏻
we lived in brockmoor towers which was right next to the rec also by the sessions pub people used to say they heard the prisoners chains clanking in the nightime but i never experienced anything and our flat overlooked the park but i loved finding out more history from your research thank you
Oh i was just getting interested in that then. I blooming love history stories. And paranormal stuff. Fabulous video, Kev. Thanks for that. Really well done, kept me on the edge of my seat. 👻👍🏻🐶🐾
Wow that was real interesting. those days bodies a lways buried on the grounds not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground .and always moved when prisons closed nowadays they say the soul has gone that body becomes innocent and can be buried and returned to the familys.nice to know they went to a cemetry. The familys could not claim the bodies then not sure when that changed . Gosh its amazin what you can find out just around and about. no issue now they dont hang. Great vid.
I live on Westminster road a few minutes away by foot ,behind the estate built in the 70s and it's creepy around here especially my house x Just added I've seen a ghost in my house and he wasn't see through etc it was a man in his late 40s just standing in the living room looking at me he suddenly just sort of folded into the floor ,honest story .
Hiya Kevin, we've something similar in Whitehaven, I've heard George Washington's Grandma is buried in St Nicholas's gardens, similar to the park you've visited, there some good historical vlogs in Liverpool, is it true the brown tower at Bramley Moore was used for a air raid siren, during world war 2? this is Choppy
Last time I commented on this video mate it rang a bell too me about what me dad told me, he grew up in this area and brought your video up to him and sent him it. Told me a lot of history on it cus believe it or not he actually lived and grew up in the hangman’s house round the corner mate. I’ll get the exact address off him later, he looked it up years ago and he actually did, showed me years ago when I was a kid and and brought it up today, will get bk to you when I know the house number and street!👍🏻👌🏻
Good video Kev, really interesting as that is round the corner from where I live. I was going to cover this in a video too but I won’t bother now 😂😂😂. Look forward to your next one.
The wall around the prison is probably still there, I reckon all the building materials were sold and the top coping stones put back and now have railings mounted on them. Just my theory.
Kev, really interesting vid. I'm from County Rd, but I know that park, and the stories of the sessions. Do you know who James Maybrick is ? his grave is in anfield cem. I think that subject could be well received once you know who he is . Keep up the great work mate
Hi didn’t know about maybrick . Till you mentioned and looked him up, how scary always thought JR was Londoner. Or hasn’t it been proved that maybrick is J.T.R.😮
@@slavery5585 THere was a diary and pocket watch that surfaced in the 0's ( I think ) that were claimed to be Maybrick's detailing the murders. It was later proved to be fake. But the whole Maybrick and his wife story is very interesting
Real interesting mate, love local history!! Your K2 meter reacting and sightings of apparitions all makes sense, should imagine there are quite a few restless spirits in that area? Would be great if you did a nightime paranormal search/walk? If you had the spirit talker app on your phone even better?
Yeah uncle Paul died years ago and our Ruth passed away 3 years ago now😢. Whose your mate from Doon close I lives there till I was 13 moved around 2001
Grew up playing in the reck lived in Nith street went to st johns school a lot different around there now, had a weird experience on the corner of medlock street old woman dressed in old clobber telling me off, the kirkdale homes was a derelict building then spooky place too, nice one for the vid mate
St marys park which is very near and was behind Westminster road baths has hundreds of bodies from the plaque or some diseases still there. Do you know anyhing about this very small park or why there have never been houses built on it.? Thanks kev.great vid.
This was another I was thinking about...known locally as St.Mary's Park, Lester Gardens, between Walton Road, and Westminster Road, Kirkdale was formerly St. Mary's Cemetery. A huge number of victims of the various Cholera epidemics that swept through Liverpool were buried here, including a number of my own ancestors. As far as I'm aware, just like Grant Gardens on West Derby Road, it was landscaped and designated as a park by Liverpool Corporation, however the tens of thousands of bodies buried there were left interred and simply landscaped over.
Apparantly over 58 thousand buried there.most in dedicated numbered pits.major Lester had over a hundred thousand followers at his funeral. 50 years as the vicar and helped the many poor souls in the area.
Amazing history.the site names all who are buried there over 60 years till it closed.and what they died of and the age and sometimes occupation.as kids we played football there every night. Vaguely remember being told we are plating over graves.
Great video fella very informative. Here’s an idea mate with halloween coming up you could cover some stories from Tom Siemens haunted Liverpool books and go to the sites of the stories you cover
Probably a silly question but is the youth club still open? I grew up on St aggy road and loved that place. I completely forgot about “the witches grave” until you brought it up now i remember it vividly. Mad how the memory works.
Great. I used to do Morris Dancing in this park. Called the West minister Star Lights. I also went to Fonthill rd School. Just for 2 years they used to talk about the "Grey Lady," and you have the Devils Ditch. There too or Devils Gauge... just by The Melrose Pub. There is a Lantry house for the homless. And the surrounding houses. One time. I was visting a counsin. It was Halloween time. I seen a man walking up her stairs. I seen the back of the legs. Going up her stairs. She was in alone. Great story. ❤ love real stuff 🎉🎉
Wow...Brought some memories back there Kev, my neck of the woods also... I was born around there, went to Fonthill school then Lambeth, use to have a milk & paper around as a kid before & after school. I remember there corner sweetshop opposite the school 😊 I remember the pubs in the area, drank & worked in them all 😂 You must remember Langtry House in the area... I'll leave it here, got lots of memories of Kirkdale and the history, all changed 😢
@@Kevcupo lol "Franks" 👏 couldn't remember the name for some reason, some stories there 😉 Played footie everywhere, but always remember the all weather by the Phoenix, knees never been the same 😂
love what you do this one was great we mostly get to know about the obvious history bot this is more personnel and local please do some more and find some old guys an ladies to tell there story's of life in the city over the last 70 to 80 years well done thanks
Every park must have a story, in some of the old parks and church grounds near where I had lived have burial mounds of alleged bubonic plague victims. I have always felt spooked being in a park at night [from the living and the dead]. I liked your ghost story; I guess it’s possible everyone has seen something but never knew what it was or are wilfully oblivious [everyone has a sixth sense]. I would love to see more local Liverpool history, specially the darker-side? I love your local stories and I guess it is good for your kids and grandchildren to see too.
Brilliant information My auntie lives in no. 5 . Suffield road my uncle lives in no. 31 . My other uncle and auntie lived in the block of flats on the edge of the park we’re you pointed the entrance out but I have played in the park when I was younger 68 now .
Hi No sorry I don’t know jimmy.. Kev can we do more about kirkdale and Walton areas as it is our great liverpool heritage as mine and yours are ingrained in these areas thanks buddy fantastic information follow most of your good work thank you . I will be speaking to my auntie and uncle tomorrow so your ears will be burning lol 👍👏
I grew up on Fonthill Road directly across from Kirkdale C.P., used to hear ghost stories about The Rec, about the ghosts of executed prisoners roaming the grounds at night, no wonder it has an eerie feel to it at night.
@@Kevcupo I think my mum's is definitely haunted, when I was a kid I used to have a stereo with the big speakers, I kept one of the speakers on top of a big wardrobe(to give a sort of surround sound effect) against the wall, one day my brother and I are on the playstation, when this speaker that was against the wall, came flying off the top of the wardrobe, just barely missing both my brother and I.
Kirkdale is definitely one of them most haunted parts of Liverpool, as a major paranormal head, - ill often start a convo in waiting room ossies cos I love elderly scousers - who are sadly dying off - this lovely fellar next to me in the ossie, got talking - he had stories of that kirkdale homes, playing on them as a kid, all fellars with missing legs and that from WW1 - he got upset actually and I felt terrible, he had loads of kirkdale stories, this prison and that, but Kev, or anyone, is anyone on the little boozer the clock on walton Road facing the aldi?? We had a band pracky in there and all of us together and separately seen things happen and all kinds, it was firmly a grounded spirit and like phantoms from thru the ages, but this main entity was like from the 60s or 70s this ghost - me mate said he saw like a fellar in a camel cost like a bin man, when he went for a piss, white as a sheet, me other mate heard someone like they were chocking to death.. etc etc, my one was like dangerous - went the toilet n the second time I went back this massive massive heavy old old clock heavier than a 25k weight off a barbell just appeared from nowhere - within like 15 minutes, no one could of put it there either, you'd have to walk past our door that was always open, - it felt sinister though, knocking back at you n that when ye knocked for it and this was on a sunny day, anyone from country road kirkdale ways will know the boozer, and ive tried n tried n tried to find history on it and there's nothing, so anyone with rumours or sees this message and knows anything id be made up, well in
@@Kevcupo ahh nice one one mate, a camel coat???! I meant a donkey jacket, we were like the 4 donkeys of the apocalypse, - im going back 10 years now and I think it's changed hands several times, but the 2 floors above the pub are like a time capsule, it was still victorianan era, when we went up there the first time you could feel it was weird right away, we wasn't even in there like the ghostbusters it was our little boss jam room, - thanks mate, surely if anyone who knows someone who knows someone it'll be you, especially round them ways, majorly spooky spooky little ale House that guys
Boss bit of history that and love a good ghost story me :) I used to live by the old railway line by Springfield Park and the Sainsburys. The story was that a train had crashed under the tunnel and was buried there. Me, my brother and mates used to play around there, before it was the cycle path and remember this little lad dressed in old clothes (like shorts/dungarees and a shirt), standing up at the back of the tunnel and pointing up the track. We thought he was asking for directions (Don't remember him saying anything though which is strange) so we said yeah, just follow the track towards Broadgreen. He then steps down at the back of the tunnel and that's the last we see of him. There was a hole at the back of the tunnel but we didn't see him leave that way. He wasn't see through like you'd think a ghost would look like, just grey in the dark.
Our large family moved from Lemon street kirkdale to ormskirk then back again to fountains road in the late 50s. My mother got a job as a carer in kirkdale homes. That was one scary place. Think it was demolished before you lived there. Looked a bit like walton hospital and the nearby stanley hospital. Full of history around there.
