Wonderful collection of photographs. My mother and her family lived in the Dingle and we used to visit the grandparents most school holidays. Lots of great memories of the city.
Moved from the Dingle to Speke in 1960 as a 9yo, hated it! Every Friday after school I went back to stay with my gran in Wellington Rd for the weekend, for a few years, always felt like I was 'back home' :)
Thank you for an amazing trip from times gone by. I remember so much of this, as a young lad, growing up. I grew up in The Dingle, but even as a Kid, we used to venture into Aigburth, a world apart from what we were used to, but happy just the same. I left school in 1975 and we moved to Aigburth in 1980, where I still live today. Our great city is so diverse, but no matter how well we do, I hope we will always remember our early days 🙏💞
I was baptised in the church, lived on Ashbourne Road, my auntie took me to Aigburth Vale and in Sefton Park to go on the boats daily, my grand parents lived next to the cricket club, I watched hoping I would see my mum and dad, that was early 50s, thank you so much for my youth. ❤️👍
Amazing trip down memory lane! At 7.10 I believe it is a picture of me and my mum walking along St Mary's road, quite spooky! I am 70 now and living in Southend. Thank you for putting this together, it used to be a lovely place to live.
This brings back such fond memories, I'm 71 yoa, I was born and brought up in Dingle, remember the miniature removal van in the window of the removal shop window, going to Mayfair in the school holidays, I was a painter and decorator working for Cousins, painted the cake shop in 'Eggy Rd' a number for times, such happy days.
hi Jim.god I remember the van in the shop window it was grey .wasn't near a bus stop the shop.my father used to clean windows in those streets.he hated the beatles because when he went to collect his window money the customers were out at the cavern watching the beatles.i went to St.finbars school.how I miss those days.no respect.now kids do what they like some of them.great days and we didn't know it at the time.
Wow virtually my life history, born 62 and my gran was off Garston Village,Clifton st....... lived lately in Fletcher Drive featured here and school in St Margarets , loved James Street and Garston Baths as a kid.........what has happened to the world.
Grew up on Alresford Road in Aigburth and Oakland Road near the Liverpool Cricket Club. Moved away in 1972 to go to college and eventually moved to the USA. Just found these marvelous RU-vid videos and have spent a good hour looking at them. Brings back so many really vivid memories of my life up to age 20. I cannot wait to show them to my family and friends. Thanks for compiling all these videos Tom, you did a great job.
Happy memories of living just off St Mary’s Road up until I was 10 and family moved away from Liverpool. I can still remember getting the bus into town with my dear Mother from just by the church. Left in 1978. Happy memories. I close my eyes and I am there for a moment.
Grew up on those streets in the 1970s. We lived on Aigburth vale..went to Sudley primary with my brothers. Learned to swim at Garston baths,played football in Sefton park,APH fields,Otterpool. Had a couple of fights in the entry's/alley ways, too! Great memories... Chuk
I did exactly all of those things too but I was born 1975 in 16 Ashfield Rd aigburth vale. I went to sudley infants and juniors then to calderstones. Learned to swim in Garston baths too, lived in Sefton Park and played football at otterspool and hph. Had many friends on the Kelton estate off Woodland Rd. Indeed great memories.
I grew up near Lark Lane in the forties and fifties....such wonderful memories evoked by this feature So many well remembered streets...shops...etc....but no views of the Rivoli Cinema on the corner of Tramway Road....my local fleapit
Set to beautiful music. Oh my, so many beautiful streets, no litter and so many local shops, little traffic. Great days that are lost forever. Liverpool people if you love your city as you profess to do, then why do you all litter our city it is a mess and far too many cars, use the trains and buses our lives will be much improved.
I fully understand. I finally left the city in 1947 After wartime coming and goings . Now 93. All my old friends and relatives have gone. Apart from them it’s the trams I really miss! Liverpool is so far behind with its lack of light rail which almost all major cities are having.
Wow! Garston bathes, used to go with the school, Heath Rd,with John Feast, I hated the water, it frightened me, I never learnt to swim, still cant.at 73.
A lovely trip down memory lane....born and grew up in Stratford Road, Aigburth....went to Sudley Road school...Mr Curl the head! And later used to get the bus from Eggy Vale up to Calderstones....married in St Annes church...moved away mid seventies...but such treasured memories...thank you for posting....
@@alexbarker4557 It is weird how everyone remembers different things…I remember being round at your house to play….I always say how lucky I feel to have lived where we did and go to Sudley Road School…lots of happy memories…..
@@jackielewis2353 I have a photo of you in my garden! I remember going to Saltburn by the Sea on a school holiday. We shared a room. You took extra pocket money because your sister Linda ( how do I remember your sisters name!) told you that you would need more that the 6d per day. You also had more clothes than me and lent me some.
You know, Tom, I just rewatched this video again and I was just amazed at how much more detail I saw the second time around. Shop names I can now remember, Lark Lane, Aigburth Vale, Mersey Road, Liverpool Cricket Club, St. Anne's Church, Garston Baths, and on and on. I even saw where my old dentist, Ken Cranston, was on Aigburth Road opposite the Fulwood T.A. Barracks. Stuff just kept flooding back. Thanks again for the great memories.
@@valbachelder8828 I never remembered his breath! I was partly in awe of him and partly intimidated by him. In awe because he had been a former England Cricket player as well as the Captain of the Lancashire Cricket Club. Intimidated because he was quite strict and there was absolutely no conversation. When I moved away, my next dentist was a woman who really could put you at ease. It was night and day. I can remember his car registration plate was 1KC. Must be worth a small fortune nowadays.
I visited Liverpool Aigburth lark lane in the 1990s when i travelled in a bus with my partner micky we broke down our differential had snapped/ loved the memories Victorian house we stayed in people Sefton park i am from south london but Liverpool holds a place in my heart / and a woman whose dog was called BOOT /have you seen boot was all she kept saying have you seen him? our dog was called BOD and one day in Sefton park i was walking Bod and calling him.a friends dog was called MARLEY so it was BOD MARLEY and people were saying where's bob Marley???? hahahahahah xx thanks for vid xxx
we lived in South street.park Road side.but aigburth was a lovely area.i remember the boating lake.the lovely streets no litter.kids used to play in the streets.how I wish I could go back people were nicer.things have changed for the worse.people seem to be more selfish now a days.sadly.
Filmed about 1970, and possibly on a Sunday with very little traffic.I can identify all the old cars, including locally built Ford Anglias at Halewood, Triumph Heralds at Speke, and Vauxhall Vivas at Ellesmere Port. One was an early A reg Hillman Imp (ATJ989A) in Tranway Road at 2:45
Filmed at various times. You get a rough timescale by the car registrations 'D' reg 1966, 'F' reg 1968. The tram service to Garston ceased 6th June 1953. There's one view including the cricket club at 6:24 with the track not tarmacked over but the overhead wires removed. This was probably shortly after the route was abandoned. An 'A' reg (1963) Hillman Imp in 1970 would be a very old car as they rusted like mad in those days!
Towards the end, the photo includes what we called the coke works in Garston - visible flames and lots of smoke - "atmospheric" you could say. Still happy memories!
If my memory serves me right, the sign GARSTON used to be on the railway bridge, nearthe railway cottages, Now its outside Liverpool Cricket Club !!!!!!!
Inspired by watching your tour of Park Road I watch this episode. I assume Aigburth Rd was widened in the early 1970's judging by the registrations of some of the cars. Some owners got away with losing just a bit of their gardens but others lost some beautiful properties all together. Very sad.
Hey, Blythswood Street! Dad had the only car in the street. Now you can't find a space to park. And that massive scary church and Garage I used to climb over, near the Dingle bus sheds - now gone. Any pictures of the Inglenook pub, now care home where I downed my first pint of Mild for 1/9 a pint? Or St Charles Junior School? ( I nicked a piece of the wall plaster for a momento when the old place ended up as rubble). Miss McCracken and Miss Donnelly - you were so sweet.
i enjoyed my time living in kintore road lpool with life centred around the 4th allerton scout troup and trips to camp in wales. it was fun learning to box in st. Mary's church grassendale.
That’s where I spent my early years Thomas. Our family lived at 36 (Hanley’s) My Great Uncle William (Bill) Brownbill lived at the St Mary’s Road end. I went to Gilmour Southbank / Duncombe Road schools and learned to swim in Garston baths. Family left late 70’s but its in my heart always.
Isn't Sefton Park in Aigburth? If so, I'm surprised there are no photos. In 1983 we walked around the park; ended up having dinner at The Phoenix somewhere in Aigburth. Anyone remember that restaurant?
@@TommyBrown7 Thanks for the link! I remember the Palm House and the Peter Pan statue being in the vicinity of a lake and a pirate ship. But it was 1983 and even the best memories fade a bit. Thankfully I took lots of photos.
Garston baths,got took by school rd,never leant to swim,was told many years ago byan Army swimming master, he explained that I was missing a skin fat level some people are, most black people suffer with this.Thats why very black men appear in Olympic swimming
Well I never knew that. Hearing that though reminds of someone saying recently not many black people ride bikes ..but don’t know the reason for that one.
First frame shows Toxteth Tech..my school until 1966. No nostalgia here...reminds me of a Dickens novel. Now live in Perth West Australia. Different world. You can keep the old one in your collective rose colored glasses memory. Listened to Aussie test tesults vs England. " Bowled Lillie, caught Marsh" in the sweet shop next to the school. 15 years later I was coaching DK Lillee in my gym in North Beach .Good fun looking back, but grateful for progress.
And? By the way, who gives a flying f about DK Lillie I’m sure none of us scousers are going to miss your arrogance. Stay in Australia please and keep your jaundice coloured glasses on. YWWA
