My dad lived on the top floor with his four sisters, and mum. He said , if the wind was in the right direction he could hear them ‘ jangling ‘ from the Pier Head !
Actually this is Newton Way and the tenements are St Andrews St. Trowbridge St was the next block and you can just see part of it in the distance in the shot with the statue of Our Lady. Similarly you can only see the Bullring in the distance in one shot, together with the Gill St tenement block.
Lost community, the loss of decency and pride even with what little you had. When everyone looked after even the pavement in front of their homes. When people had respect for God even if they had no belief. A lost time and lost soul of Liverpool.
I came up in the late 80's to stay at Barney Mee's parents house a few times. Alot of the houses where boarded up then but Flo didn't ever want to leave.
All good people sticking together the city is finished nowadays devides everywhere we grew up in Mertyl gardens not to far away was great growing up it’s now full of students , good old days before technology finished us off and ye couldn’t order anything online so there’d be a argument between us who was going the shop for 10 denya tights or the pink echo for me dar
