SOUTHDENE,KIRKBY -56 YEARS AGO- 1965 

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My father was the manager of Banners back the. My mum looked after the records and I worked selling records on a Saturday. Sorry but it was Broad Lane Southdene not Park Brow. My wife was a Saturday girl in the bread/cake shop and we left Kirkby in 1968.

Magic memories mate 👍

@@davidbennion3774Do you recall the name of the department store that used to sell records😅 in the market square next to Forbuoys? Can’t find it anywhere. Banners was great in the late 50s it saved a trip into Liverpool. The market stalls also sold records later

I used to live in ravenhead Avenue Chippy was run by chinese I remember you could buy a flagon of fresh orange juice there and he would mark it up in Chinese so you get a deposit back Happy days

I lived in Kirsey road back then and our gang could have took your gang any day

Yep...on Imber road where we lived. My mum was the cleaner for the rent office in the 70s.

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But you stayed...why?

@@frankhornby6873 i didnt. Moved to London when I was 17

I always thought the quarry green barracks were for US military

@@terrysmith9362 Back in the mid 1990s I recall the Council received a letter from a US resident inquiring if he could visit what he recalled was the old US military detention centre in Quarry Green. He was in his advancing years and wanted to see the buildings he once worked in, during a forthcoming visit he was making to the UK. Sadly the Mayors office informed him there was no longer any of the white buildings or the old school, or shops that would today face the Quarry Green social club. He was sent some mementoes. Growing up a teenager in Kirkby in the 1960s. The number of nice pubs and social clubs allowed friendships to be made. Plenty of work locally and in Liverpool. Kirkby Urban District Council created many great facilities that were years ahead of most UK cities ( Sports Centre and Stadium. Swimming Pool superbly located. And in conjunction with Lancashire County Council some of the finest, and successful Comprehensive schools. Due to the management of Kirkby's housing being with Liverpool City Council, the sheer size of the housing stock made regular maintenance sporadic. I always recall some female friends me and my mate made in Newquay in 1970, and who were from Essex, came to Northwood in 1970 and thought the Woodpecker was brilliant, as well as the Bier Keller underneath Rigby's pub in Dale Street. The loss of the pubs and social clubs have limited contact for todays generation.

@@fisherpeter695 I used to live in Northwood Bigdale Drive and Kennelwood Avenue. You?

@@terrysmith9362 Back then Just around the corner in Glasven Road, Great place 1960s

@@fisherpeter695 Did the Bundreds live there

I very much remember that kind of thing in the 70s, but not the 60s...the 60s were much quieter, and much of Kirkby (it was a lot smaller then, no Tower Hill yet, no M57 etc) was still new and as yet untarnished.

@@vsmicer I was at Brookfield School for 4 years from 1964 and that was my experience.

charlie farlie ...I was in Brooky from 1960-65....Purcell then Newton buildings....nothing but good memories of Kirkby and Brooky.....life was spent playing footy every evening til dark....wish I could go back to Southdene....in the 60s.....