Garston 

Well done for these social documents. I’m sure in years to come people will really appreciate your keen eye and hard work 👏🏻

Excellent ! I lived in Chapel Road for 25 years, before moving to Thailand in 2005, and have never been back. So much has changed, but great to see so many things of the good old days still going strong. 👍.

You did well with the sound Jeff - a most enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for making this video : )

Oh man, how things have changed, I left the 'pool in the late seventies, I never lived in Garston but spent most of my childhood there mainly at Garston Baths. My grandparents had an affinity with Garston Swimming Club, grandad was cheif coach and grandma was secretary, the baths had two pools 'big' and 'small' (that's what they were called). They also had public 'baths' individual ones for the workers, there were lots of them too, I also think there was a laundry there. I too worked in Garston at Lennons supermarket part time when still at school happy days.

A very intersting trip down memory lane. I lived nearby Garston in the 1950s. I remember the market and shivering in Garston baths. Sad to see so much in decline. Thanks Jeff for video and all your info.

Another really enjoyable video. In the early 60s we had a school annex at Garston and I spent a lot of time in the area. I always liked the place and have memories and stories around every corner. Sorry to see the Garston Baths have gone. A well spent 34 minutes watching this! Thank you for all your efforts and for posting this.

Your knowledge of local history is impressive and your personal anecdotes tell a story of another time. So interesting. My days in Liverpool go back several decades - I remember very well the Bryant & May factory and Speke airport. Remember Starways anyone? Flew on them more than once. Thank you for videos, Jeff.

I grew up 'under the bridge' 1970s - 1990s. I lived in the 'Tennies' for a short while too. I now live in Bristol (moved 1999). After serving my apprenticeship at Gostin of Liverpool, I eventually worked at a small firm in Garston Industrial Estate. All this footage and old pictures brings back memories; mixed feelings associated with those memories. It's a shame to see how the old buildings have been razed and replaced with new. I wonder if there could have been some sensitive re-purposing of them (thinking about Garston Hotel). I still have family in Garston so I will always visit. Appreciate the time, effort and historical thought that'a gone into your video. Regards Tony

Hi Jeff thanks for uploading this video I really enjoyed it. I grew up in Speke in the late 60s and 70s. I’ve lived in Australia for 35 years so it was great to walk down memory lane👍

I spent many happy times in Garston, bowls on the park,vist to my parents in Bowden road. Drinking in the Pally and Garston hotel. Looking in the mirrors on the corner of Seddon House as a kid.Garston is a village everybody knows everybody else.there were so many social clubs as well a real mixture,pubs Everton pub the Swan(duck),working men's clubs the BUFFS,The Legion,orange,conny, club catholic church club, railways club.Blue union,Woodys.i went to school at Tock tech annexe as well.

Alex Harvey yes i remember him , shaftsbury avenue Hair musical. Great info 👍🏼

Great little video mate....cheers 👍

An enjoyable and informative video which brought back lots of memories for me having worked as a firefighter at Banks Road fire station from 1975 onwards,I always thought the people from this area were the salt of the earth types and made my time here most enjoyable, thanks Jeff

Love your Vlogs Jeff, about a great city, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the vast amount of information about the area. Enjoyable video!!!

Me dad used to work at Garston gas works.

I loved in Speke from 1955 when it was a good place to live, I travelled on the 82C to Blackburn House Hifh School in Liverpool 8 and loved it. I remember travelling through Garston past Bryant and May then on past Woolworths which sold household items like paint abd brushes etc. The swimming baths was opposite on the other side of the road. We went to these baths weekly from school. As the bus continued its journey there was another Woolworths about a bus stop further on which sold everything else such as toys, pencils, books, wash powder. Miss those days.

I worked in Kings bottle factory in King's st.. & Graham's Cartons before they moved from Earp st &Wood st Great Days Then.🤗

Thanks for the memory jolt, I worked as a TV engineer in the 60's and garston was a place I went to quite regular because down by the dock area the TV reception was dreadful with one street name burnt in my memory VULCAN Street. At one time I had a flat in Island Road over a pub on my last Visit to Liverpool I found Vulcan street and the pup no longer exist. What you called the tenee's the name Speak Road Gardens come to mind well it did keep me fit lugging my tool box up all those stairs. Like your good self I to could not work out where the TV showroom was in that row of shops to.

Really loved this…thank you. I grew up in Grassendale Park and would wander round Garston and the docks as a kid in the early 80’s doing sketches and exploring. Then I lived in Ebrington Street just near Garston Library when I was at uni much later. There was also the Dunlop Factory where the match works are. Lots of memories. I’m really missing my home town at the moment so this was a great trip down memory lane.

Oh god, those shops all shuttered up and galvanised railings. Garston looks lovely in the past. How sad.

My mum grew up on Window Lane and one day she let my nan have a go on her bicycle and she took off and went right into the gas works as she couldn't figure out how to use the handbrakes to stop (1950s), the guard at the front chased her in and finally helped her get control of the bike. Lots of great memories coming over and spending summers with my family "Under the Bridge".

I worked in Garston gasworks in the sixties, i was on the retortes. Did anyone else who worked there remember them ?

On David pluck shop there was bargain booze shop in 2006 i remember I visited there in 2006 and the shop name was bargain booze.

Good video Jeff . Shame about the whistling …..The record shop moved over to st Mary’s road and began to sell musical instruments. Further up was De Carl’s that I would buy ex juke box singles from ….

I found this video very interesting, A lot has changed since i was last here but real improvement . You mention about the bank front, yes that ws the bank and then you had the public toilets, The swimming baths, a yard for some haulage company then the bus station and on the corner of Horrocks Avenue you had the Job centre , opposite you had lennons supermarket, You had Garston Market at the rear of the Tram or bus station, My wife went to Blessed John Almonds school off Horrocks Avenue. I also used to visit The Palentine as did my father on his way home fom work, I had an Uncle & Aunt lived a few houses down Island Rd. I also had my wedding reception at Haig house opposite the Cenotaph. I have been twice to South Parkway since it opened, we used the park and ride and again on the underground line just before covid. Both my parents and grandparents are buried at Springwood, I have a neice that works at a store in Hunts Cross near Springwood and still does, The football stand you showed was the South Liverpool Football club next to the old allerton station. going towards Banks Rd before the car bridge was built on the right was a rowf shops, one was a funeral directors and just before the railway was a garage that later became a steel fabricators, My Neice's husband worked there. I have too many to mention. When some of the relatives moved to Speke we used to visit them on the bus and the road had these strange looking road light that looked like robots and had an orange glow about them at night. My eldest sister lives off springwood near woolton rd, I know nothing of Hunts Cross apart from the shops and where Rita Tushingham lived, I knew my way around but not the names of the roads. Also down past the Gasworks you had the bottle works and Kings Brewery. I knew a lot of People on Window Lane like York St and other cathedral names, I can't remember the name of the club on Window Lane but i had a mate from holmes St that was a bouncer on the door. My roots are all linked to Wavertree, Edge Hill, Park Rd and Garston, I have a son who doesn't know any of these places at all or been to them.

St Marys Road is very very busy nowadays which is positive. there is lots of development planned in the pipeline which again will be great for the area.

Another great video Jeff, I think next to Garson baths stood a bus garage. My first job was a telephone engineer based at cressington exchange just a little further on from Sedona Road. First job of the day was a visit to the cafe on Window Lane. My Grandfather worked at Francis Morton’s that became the Gaston Bottle Works I think, he was head buyer for Morton’s until closure. My Grand parents lived in Milnthorpe Street to the left of St Francis church and both my mother and aunt both married in St Michaels church “under the bridge” 10 years apart.

I just realised that wall is not a bank, That's the entrance to the baths up the steps, it's the narrowest part of the pavement, to the right was a garage and the toilets, opposite was Tesco's on the corner.

I live in Toronto, Canada, but I was born and lived in Liverpool until I was 17, when I emigrated. I remember going with my Mom to Garston Market. Does the market still operate today?

The record shop was gulleys in James St, guy always smoking pipe,use to buy models and records there,it then moved to St Mary's Rd for short while

It safe to live in this area?

That nhs building is particularly ugly 😣

Give Joe Owens a voice RU-vid