Great picture of the Rec @ 0:24 can clearly see my old Primary School in the distance Fonthill Road Primary School ;) Does anyone else remember the grounds behind the Old Sessions Pub where we would play as kids in the 70,s ?
Listen, when you were a kid it didn't matter where you lived in liverpool, we had loving parents and life always seemed great, I was born in kirkdale and we moved to Everton in the mid 70's, we had a bathroom and back garden and 2 toilets! Having had a tin bath and outside toilet in a 2 up 2 down we thought we'd moved to a palace! Great times great memories and glad I was that age in the year it was....better days ....💖
I was born in kirkdales suffield road to profoundly deaf parents 1950 that background is paying me dividends humour wise as a well global traveled geezer vlogging my days away. i went to westminster road school & lambeth road but dad won the pools & we hit the road to southport, living here thailand these days.
"we had loving parents and life always seemed great" Jackie it was never gonna be a simple as that ! I did have loving parents , but lived alongside many kids who did not sadly ;( Some of those kids are now Good friends of mine today and their parents have long since gone!!
Terribly sad that so many of those wonderful buildings have been demolished, I'd loved to have been able to see what it was like where my Mum grew up - She lived in Wyatt Street until the May Blitz...
I grew up in Garnett Avenue right alongside the Rec. My best mates Millo and Dibs lived on Brock Street. Went to school at St John’s. Had other friends living in Brockmoor Tower, and believe it or not I sat next to a woman on a flight to Turkey a few years back, we got chatting, and she was the 1st baby born in Brockmoor Tower back in 1962. I now have a really good friend (married my best mates sister) who lived in Bradewell Close, right opposite Westminister Road Police Station. It’s a small world!
We left Kirkdale to live in a new place called Kirkby we were made up,as we would have our own bedroom and a inside toilet,such luxury! Talk about “out of the pan,into the fire”.
Your picture 'Kirkdale Homes' 14 seconds in is actually the workhouse!! Not what what they would have called home! I was born in Smith Street Kirkdale in 1958 and have many a fond memories of playing in the old bombed houses as a young child. Such fun!!
We used to think it was just a big old peoples home but I used to work with a psychiatric nurse who worked there for a couple of years until it closed. He told me that many of the male patients were men who had lost it during during the two world wars and just got quietly hidden away.
The Kendal Pub on the junction of Fountains Road and Westminster Road was home to a Kid called Ian Henderson , who went to my Secondary School Lambeth Road during the 70,s My home at that time of the picture is in the distance, North Dingle ;)
Back in 1967 I worked in Liverpool city Centre and needed urgent dental treatment. My sister who worked in Great Homer Street got me an appointment at a Dental surgery in Great Mersey Street, at 3.01, and due to having an extraction, and being under 18 came along with me. The imposing house used as the surgery was massive inside. And must have been owned by well healed people before conversion. The Dentists were Irish and named Loomes and Davey, and were keen Evertonians, if any older residents may recall them. These properties that were also once familiar around Scotland Road and Great Homer Street, would still be standing if they had been located in London.
I've been watching a few of these videos of old Liverpool lately. One of the things that has struck me is that, despite the obvious deprivation at certain times, how relatively clean and free from litter the streets were. I've just got the number 19 bus home from the city centre and I made a point of looking at the pavements and shrubs visible from the bus as we went along. I'm sorry to say it but this city is a s***hole.
I was born in the Billogs in 1946,, only it was just known as the Buildings then... I also remember playing in the bombed houses, my mate stood on a piece of wood which had a big nail in it ,,,ouch,,,,, that was during the demolition of the Synagogue in Fountains Rd.... Some kids of today have never climbed a tree, but there you go
Great video, I lived in langtry Road and one side of the road was the boundry wall of the Kirky homes and we often had to clime the wall to retrieve our ball ,I Attended Wesy road school and remember that we had our sports day in the Kirky homes, lots of happy memories of my early family life, Thank you for posting this video.
I went to westminster rd and hated miss spence for victimising me in front of the class for deing left handed, i lived suffield rd with my deaf parents back then , kids i rememeber Frankie Mcintosh .. jimmy long and a lovely downes syndrom boy but cat remember his name perhaps ian ? my name John lloyd.
Just one thing dave remember,Hank Walters and The Arcadian Ladies,Hanks daughters. Pauline,Claire and Lorna Gail did they not sing this song. They always played in The Halfway House.
My Grandmother Margret Hamill (nee Ennis: Broad meadows: Swords. Jug Lane. (Near Ennis Rd.) County Dublin. Married to Frank Hamill. Falls Rd. Belfast. Had cousin in 'Z Cars' TV Series1960's. J G Devlin.) lived in The Regency house in the centre till the late 1960's, with my Aunty, Uncle and Cousins. Until they moved to Northwood, Kirkby in the 60's I was born to the right of the photo, in the Tenements at 45 Smith Street, leading to Great Homer Street, in January 1951 and move to a new house in Garth Road, Southdene Kirkby. in 1954. Stan Boardman, the Liverpool Comedian was born in one of the road on the left down Foley Street shown before Everton Valley and Kirkdale Road at the end. Stan was on the knee of his older sister during World War 2 in a Bomb Shelter in Whittle Street, between Whittle Street and Kirkdale Road. There was a 'Direct Hit' and Stan's Sister and older Brother was Killed - Stan Survived. Most of the houses were gone by the 60's and replaced with 'Prefabs'. I hated the old house in the center of the photo as it was said to be haunted, the Governor of Old Kirkdale Prison, where many people where hanged lived there once upon a time. And there was a knocking on the main bedroom door at 5:00a.m. in the morning. What I personally saw and experienced there I would not wish to say. The 'Dolls Hospital' was on Kirkdale Road, to the right at the end of Foley Street. The Garrick Theater, which became a Cinema was on the near side of the road - Westminster Road to the Left. There were shops, in front of which the two boys in road, with shoes and socks, are standing. The child over the road near to the post Box has no shoes and socks. The Pits football Business now covers the site.
Born in Melrose Avenue in 1964. Unfortunately never seen a photo of it. Westminster Road school for a while then Mam moved us to Seacombe for an indoor loo. 🙄 If anyone has any Melrose Ave photos would love to see them. 😃
You've never heard of kirkdale being in north Liverpool!!....well its not in the Southend is it!, c'mon didn't think the Southend was that closed off. smh.
there was nothing wrong in BOOTLE and kirkdale mums and dads worked hard to put food on the table even if it was dripping butties daddy long legs in the yard toilet parrafin lights tin bath in front of the coal fire six of us useing the same water great days so frank up your mate....
I used to play in rifkins scrap yard as a kid great days we had nothing like everyone but it didn't matter my mother's name was Nellie dowdall does anyone remember her
