Old photos of Bootle

[BOBHAMO]

of my mate Dave
bobhamo

[nicolas]

So sweet! all gone now though - this is August 2017.

[efc46]

Luvly I spent many a night in the georges As a young man I/we used to drink a lot on the lane all the pubs were always chocker block i would change a thing great memories great mates /thanks for the post/davey

[henry]

Had my wedding do in there and always drank there and the Jollies and Solly
Great times

[fatboyjoe90]

This photo is one of Gerard Fagan’s, from Inacityliving, showing Irlam Road.

Does anyone recognise the guy in the middle of the road?

[john j connell]

Not 100% Joe, but he could be John Stenson. JJC.

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that John, it's a good guess if no one comes up with anything better, then John Stenson it is.

[nicolas]

Bootle 1847 Map. I can spot The Strand Promenade, and then straight down onto the Beach.

[Bernie R]

Great map

Looks like Trinity Road used to be Wadham (road/lane whatever) according to this???

Good to see the Jawbone pub there too.

[fatboyjoe90]

Liverpool Landmark Marine Gardens Waterloo 1929.

[fatboyjoe90]

A policeman on traffic duty outside the Caradoc Pub, on Seaforth Road Seaforth.

[fatboyjoe90]

The Princess Cinema opened on 11th May 1931.

[filsgreen]

That brings back memories of when I was on the cabs in the 80's, Joe. The call was ' The Prinny bingo for Coyle". Mrs Coyle was the mother of the lead singer of the Lotus Eaters, who would take great pride in telling you that, every time you picked her up.

[Mack]

Loved 'The Lotus Eaters'

FAB Liverpool band

'The First Picture of you'... The ultimate summer song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEE-Hl80fFk

Mack

[BOBHAMO]

North park
bobhamo

[fatboyjoe90]

SEAPOINT HOUSE, BLUNDELLSANDS.

[fatboyjoe90]

Bowersdale Park Seaforth Road, Seaforth.

[filsgreen]

Lovely park, Joe. I didn't know it had been that posh

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that Phil, do you remember St Thomas's church the other side Bowersdale Park? and it was very posh.
The money for building the church was put up by William Ewart Gladstone's father, John Gladstone in 1814. He looked to it to provide the kind of evangelical Anglicanism that he favoured. When this eventually turned out not to be the case, he and his family went to worship elsewhere. The building itself survived as a C of E church until 1976. It was demolished in 1990.

[fatboyjoe90]

It was also known as the blue church.

[filsgreen]

Yes, I remember the Blue church, Joe, it was opposite the Star of the Sea.

[lynne99]

What a beautiful building. Shame it was demolised, but that is progress.

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your kind comments, Phil and Lynne.

[fatboyjoe90]

Lancashire, Blundellsands, Old photo of the beach in the 1910's in the distance you can see a tower, most probably the New Brighton Tower.

[fatboyjoe90]

The No16 bus, at Seaforth Bus Terminus.

[efc46]

Great picture Joe the bus numbers we all used to know their routes 24 along stanley /knowsley road into the regents road terminus 23 went down strand road

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks, for that Davey, it's not my photo obviously but glad you liked it.

[fatboyjoe90]

ATS girls and gun crews of 177 Heavy Battery rush to 'take post' at Fort Crosby near Liverpool. This training operation formed part of British preparations to repel the threatened German invasion of 1940.

[efc46]

There was an Army training ground at Hightown not too far from there we cross a bridge to the army rifle range looking for bullets we would get chased off did not stop us going back there was also a ww2 mine on the beach there we used to throw at the mine hoping it would explode it must have been dead cos we would have been dead it was,nt

[Dan]

The original Holy Ghost Church on Poulsom Drive Ford.

Used to try to count the number of perforations in the ceiling tiles.
Highest I got to was 4,580 then I gave up.




Regards
Dan

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your photo of the Holy Ghost Church Dan.

[fatboyjoe90]

The old station masters' house for Blundellsands and Crosby Railway Station.

[BossHogg]

The original Holy Ghost Church on Poulsom Drive Ford.

Used to try to count the number of perforations in the ceiling tiles.
Highest I got to was 4,580 then I gave up.




Regards
Dan

That's how I remember it.

[fatboyjoe90]

Liverpool's Hornby Dock area. The former dock entrance is still visible, filled in during the 1980s.

[fatboyjoe90]

Balliol house 1967 it was demolished about 8 years ago.