Lime Street in Liverpool. A look at St. Johns Gardens and the church which once stood there. Lime Street Station and its surroundings and the long gone St. Johns Place.
Nice one Jeff, A lot I never learnt about St Johns Gardens and pretty amazed by it. The new lime St looks a lot better today than it ever did, I was a bouncer at the Top Rank when it first opened but soon left, I felt it was too open inside and the balcony served no purpose, A school classmate was the manager at that time. Also my brother in law was station manager at Lime St for a short time untill an illness took him. While you was there you could have filmed the Crown Court and the cells and the hall's organ from the balcony. The area does look much better even the removal of Commutation Row made a big impact on Lime St.
Great and very informative video. l remember Spider on concourse house that was brilliant and the shops l work on them doing the shop fitting the shop front out,thanks for sharing 👍
That's very good video and brings back memories. That long building building at the bottom left of the picture @10:08 is probably the parade hall of the Liverpool Scottish in Fraser Street. I remember the Punch + Judy café - always a good place to get a cuppa if you were early for the train. I once bought a bright green bomber jacket at a clothes shop on the foyer shop row after a midday session at the Central pub on my birthday - seemed a good idea at the time. I also seem to remember The Hofbräuhaus was just around the corner from the station, up Copperas Hill. All gone.
Just love this video. Like very much the way you talk quite a bit about St Johns Church. Most people do not even wonder about the name St Johns Gardens. Its origin I mean. The reason why the existence of the church is little discussed is because it was pulled down just before the beginnings of the picture postcard in this country. You did well to get the photos and the info on this subject. One little thing I want to mention. Henry Bohms bookshop. one of the shops by the station that had to be demolished. It relocated to a larger premises in London Road. When chatting to the bookshop owner I once asked him what his name was. The answer was not Henry Bohm. I think he said it was Mike. Henry Bohm was someone who died a long time ago. Mike used his name because it was someone he admired, and he thought it was a good name for his shop adding that you are allowed to call your shop anything you want.
Cheers Jeff lime street has changed a lot round the station looks better I think getting rid of that subway part those awful shops buildings and even worse that concourse house building so glad they knocked that down. Looks so much better that part today. But ashame they knocked down the old St John’s market down and St George’s place with the old Guinness clock
Thanks for your work, Jeff - what a mess the city planners have made of our great city over the years (pretty sure that these ‘planners’ must be Mancs!).
I think they have found a nice balance between the old and new in this part of Lime Street. The wide-open space seems to attract your attention and amplify the opulence of the neatly restored historic buildings. Not sure if that cinema is worth hanging on to. I don't think it has the rich historic value of the hotel and St Gerorge's Hall, or the looks...
Great video fella, im a child of late 1960s i remember those monstrous shops and that tower block in front of the station. Our city planning has made some disastrous decisions in my lifetime. We have some beautiful old buildings in city centre, unfortunately mostly unused or unusable because they list them and make it financially impossible to bring back into use. Highest number of listed buildings ours of London. All our old huge department stores that had multiple levels now have ground floor shop and all above empty. With homeless problems as they are, they need bringing back into use imo...if only eh!
