Old photos of Bootle

[BOBHAMO]

Ians family J .Riley .Stubbs lived at no 35 so thats how they entertained
J .Walker then captain Walker lived there
bobhamo

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your comments Bob and Phil, on the North Park photo.

[fatboyjoe90]

The remains the Bootle Balliol Road station booking office seen on 19 June 2005.

[nicolas]

Christ Church, June 1908

[bob. b]

Great pictures keep them coming Nicolas like that one

[fatboyjoe90]

Jersey Close Bootle, can anyone name the lads in this photo

[fatboyjoe90]

Built in 1929/30 Scammell 100 tonner Reg No KD 9168 is seen here during a layover in Bootle en route to Liverpool Docks in 1947 while moving a ‘Liberation’ class steam locomotive weighing 75 tons, which had been built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows,

KD 9168 was originally supplied to Marston Road Services of Lightbody Street, Liverpool in M.R.S. livery in 1930.

[nicolas]

Cracking picture Joe, Millers Bridge?

[gazV8uk]

Joe, that's one helluva wall!!!

Anyone know where this was?

[fatboyjoe90]

Hiya Nicolas, and Gaz thanks for your replies .

I think it could be Effingham Street, behind the warehouses on Millers Bridge.

[gazV8uk]

Thanks Joe!

[bob. b]

Cracking pictures thanks for sharing them.

[bob. b]

[fatboyjoe90]

Great photo Bob, I remember them doing that survey for the traffic, (mid-sixties) it was before they built the Princess Way fly-over.



And when they finished that they closed the Lift Bridge.

[fatboyjoe90]

Atlas Road, Bootle, 1978.That yard used to be Billows Sawmills, as a kid they had the biggest logs I’d ever seen

[nicolas]

Building Rice Lane flyover 1969, Breeze Hill top of picture -

[Frank948]

Breeze Hill Flyover.Croppers Garage on the left still going today.

[bob. b]

Top right flats now a Doctors and the builders yard still there called JEM's now.
Great picture thanks.

[nicolas]

Orrell Lane Bridge

[nicolas]

Byron Street 1953

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your photos Nicolas, I like the one of Rice Lane flyover being built, I’ve never seen that one before.

[fatboyjoe90]

The Wrecked Engine No. 60. Waterloo Railway Disaster 1903.

[filsgreen]

A brief synopsis of the disaster,

"In this case the 4.30 p.m. express from Liverpool to Southport was derailed just as it was approaching Waterloo Station on the down line.

The train consisted of a four-wheels-coupled tank engine with a radial axle at each end, travelling chimney first, and of six bogie carriages, the first and last being third brakes with the brake compartment of the first carriage next the engine.

The automatic vacuum brake was in use on the train, actuating blocks on the four coupled wheels of the engine and on all the carriage wheels.

Six passengers and the fireman were killed or have since died, and 112 passengers and the driver and three other servants of the Company were injured."

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your summary of the disaster Phil,it makes the photos a bit more interesting.

[fatboyjoe90]

325 Derby Road 1964.






At the time of Martins Bank Magazine’s visit to the Bank’s four Bootle branches in 1964, 325 Derby Road - first of the four to have been opened by the Bank of Liverpool in 1884 – is still a full branch. The remaining Bootle Branches were opened in this order: 211 Stanley Road , then Linacre, and finally 99 Stanley Road. We have divided the magazine article into four parts, in order to provide information about each one these branches, within their own pages of the Online Archive.
BOOTLE has docks along its entire waterfront: behind, it has warehouses, timber yards, sidings, smoke and a great big smile. It has a General Hospital, parks, dingy streets, wide thorough¬fares, pubs galore, an Art Gallery, and a Tech¬nical College where some of our best girls come from. Bootle does everything for ships, besides making bread and metal windows, cattle food and cables, pick-up balers and paint. It dyes clothes, tans leather and has a Merseyside accent.


For a long time, Bootle was to Merseyside what Wigan Pier and mothers-in-law were to stage comics. But by the end of the 1941 blitz, 8,000 of Bootle's 17,000 houses were destroyed or badly damaged and a further 8,000 suffered in some way. 20,000 people were made homeless, another 20,000 were evacuated in 3½ hours, and over 2,000 were killed or injured; acres of property were laid waste, the main roads were blocked and all services were severed. People who remember these things don't laugh at Bootle anymore they laugh with it, for Bootle is quite happy to laugh at itself. If you mention that an 18th-century writer described Bootle as 'a wild place and roads execrable' your local man will reply 'What's wrong wit der roads? A bit crowded. But dere arl right!'
And if you should recall that early in the 19th century Bootle was a fashionable resort 'with sands hard and smooth, the wind cool and refreshing, where old and young, agile and infirm, plunge together in the sea and exhibit a scene marked with cheerfulness and simplicity' cold eyes would be fixed on you and with awful finality would come the blunt statement : 'Well, you've 'ad DAT!' Bootle has been a township since 1868 and the motto on its Coat of Arms reads Respice, Aspics, Prospice: 'Reflect on the past, consider the present, provide for the future'.

Bootle seems to be doing all these things. To reflect on the past, the Bank of Liverpool opened its first Bootle branch at 325 Derby Road on May 1st, 1884 and, despite the rather dis¬couraging but simple statement reproduced above, the branch made a profit in its second year.

Considering the present, Bootle branch stands opposite a side street leading directly down to the docks and, as an illustration of the maintenance problems in the area, it was re¬painted internally eight months ago and it is now necessary to have the paintwork washed down. Mr. A. S. Jopling, the Manager, is the son of the late Mr. W. E. Jopling, the first Staff Manager of the Bank.
Title:
Type:
Address:
Index Number and District:
Hours:

Telephone:
Services:
Manager: Martins Bank Limited 11-25-80 Bootle Derby Road
Sub to 11-25-80 Bootle 211 Stanley Road
325 Derby Road Bootle Lancashire
39 Liverpool
Mon to Fri 1000-1500
Saturday 0900-1130
BOOtle 3475
No Night safe
Manager Mr. H V Bateson Manager
Branch History
Much of this area has been re-developed

[Mack]

Love the design of this building. The way the brickwork and design is done is brilliant.
For a small building it looks formidable, and it also looks so neat and tidy and slightly imposing considering its small size.

Mack

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that Mack, I suppose the bank and builders, built those banks to look like that, as they had to persuade customers new and old to put their funds into them.

[fatboyjoe90]

The 1970s The Back of the Strand and The Triad.

[Liz H]

My friend used to live on the 11th floor of that block of flats when we were at school in the late 1960s/early 70s and I used to visit her there. The view was stunning. The flats used to sway in high winds, as a safety measure. Happy days.

[efc46]

re the overhead Seaforth Me and Terry Riley used sell the exxee echo the station the fella we worked for I think his name was Joe after the papers were all gone we would run down the wooden ramp banging our chests made a luvly echo I dont remember I think it was burned down Shame thanks for the memory Joe/Davey

[john james ingham]

joe sinnott Davey worked for him down at the Gladstone gate about 1959-60.

[BossHogg]

Before oriel station ,balliol station where built
bootle village station was at the end of oriel road and merton road
millers bridge station was on the other side of millers bridge
bobhamo

Is Oriel station still open? I remember growing up on Wadham Road in the 70s and getting the train to Freshfields from Oriel station.

[efc46]

thanks John We must have new each other selling papers I left school in 1960/born in jan and from a big family so instead leaving at Easter I left at Xmas St.Georges ( always hated
School hardly a day without lining up for the cane mind you I was a hardfaced kid) probably got what I deserved

[john james ingham]

yes Davey I am from the lane went to st james I know all the lads you know went to school with them bobby vietch was my childhood friend and wen we grew up our local was the georges pub.great times all them years ago.

[efc46]

I new robbie very well he lived in the lone house off Cypress road there is a few photies on the bootle times of us lot and robbie is on one or two/davey