I lived in the ship roads and knocked around in Walton village. Every Saturday I would be in Walters the butcher For a pound of frying steak and a couple of bones for the dog. Saturday I’d go to MRS sues for a chippy tea.😁👍
Thank you for posting this video, I am 86 years old and Some of these scenes were still around then 🥲this bring tears to my eyes .I Love Liverpool and the people 👍
I was born in Rice Lane,and lived at number three Arundel Street in the fifties.So know this area well,so sad to see how downhill it's gone,and so much destruction of countryside and farmland.Me Ma used to say that beyond Anfield Cemetery was all woods and farmland,how lovely it all must have been.
What marvellous photos of Walton from a bygone age. In the clip of Rice Lane at 2.27 you can see the pub in what appears to be still standing near Lancaster Street. Those terrace houses in Anfield and Walton would be in great demand today. As a youngster I remember Stanley Park as beautiful as it is in this clip. Proof the Victorians had civic pride for residents. And roads were obviously swept clean. Two virtues that would be welcomed today many would think.
Of course, you do have to remember the huge immigrant population at the time, who recruited for work among their own people, even bringing them in from their native country rather than employing native labour. They also held on strongly to their own culture for many years after arrival. My grandmother was one of them, and English was most certainly her second language; I don't think she was fluent when she first arrived. There was a fascinating university dissertation at this site - www.liverpool-welsh.co.uk/index_e.htm - which discussed the topic in depth but unfortunately it has been taken down.
