The Chinese waiter serving at The Pagoda Restaurant (@27.37) is my late husband Michael Mau Shing Wong. How strange it feels to see him in about 1957 here, we had met in 1956 and married in 1958. Thank you for unearthing this footage. Very nostalgic.
Its sad what happned to those sailors! I live next to the sea they died in and around the corner from where I live is the bar called 'The fishermans rest'
It's interesting about Southport actually being in Lancashire and not part of Liverpool/Merseyside. I personally think Southport is, or was, part of Lancashire and should still be. However, everytime I visit the place I mostly hear scouse accents everywhere, and yes people have a right to live and move wherever they like and that you are bound to get a little accent here and there especially as it's so close to Liverpool, but it's not as though most of the people in say Manchester talk like they're from Liverpool, but in Southport, it's very commonly heard. Southport should be called 'the rich man's Blackpool' because I find the place so clean, tidy and posh, a complete contrast from its seaside brother Blackpool; Blackpool is a horrible place. I'd love to live there, but unfortunately I just couldn't afford to; certainly a rich mans seaside town with house prices usually in the half a million price range. I bet the prices of those thatched cottages in Churchtown will set you back around £600,000, makes me wonder how people afford to live in the area. Nice to see Lord St inspired Napoleon III to design Paris's streets the same way with the tree lined roads and shop fronts, never knew it was the first ever boulevard though.
+systemanic That is not the locals! We have Lancastrian accents! People from Liverpool think they will be 'posh'by relocating here but quickly find out our quiet way of life and less social way of living is not to their liking so a lot move back. Many people from Liverpool are lovely, but not the inner city loud types! The government have messed up the place with 'buy to let' and automatically paying landlords etc. so many places were turned into flats and you have low lifes move in to almost any neighbourhood. It is changing now however, thank god!
I would very much like to know when the film of the lady sitting on a bench on Lord Street at the beginning of the film was taken. It looks incredibly like my late my mother
I wonder how many of those cinemas like the Scala, Palace, etc are still around? lol, I bet none. There were similar cinemas all over the north west area with the same or similar names, Palace I think being the common name, and they were everywhere, usually showing only 2 films. What do we have now? bloody multi-plexi's with no charm or character to them. I didn't think Espresso coffee was that popular then, no rip-off Costa, Cafe Nero or Starbucks back then, thankgod. £995 for a house? that sounds cheap, but I can guarantee back in the 1930s, £995 was probably around £400,000 in today's money, which means it was way out of most of the working classes' price range.
And now it is wrecked. The old sea front with the Sea Bathing Lake and other unique attractions is now yet another shitty, characterless retail park. The once glorious parks have been abandoned by Sefton Council and their upkeep left to ageing volunteers, who do their best on scraps of money they can collect, but can't compete with how things used to be. It has sadly become Skelmersdale on sea. A tragic waste. The council must hate people providing evidence like this of their wilful neglect.
