Pump House March 2014.
May 16 2005 Moat House,visible in background of first photo,prior to demolition.
Regards
Dan
For any Old Dockers
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miv donelan
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Love the "before the docks" photo Dan. Thanks for posting it.
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Owen Owen
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Dan, you mentioned about what happened to Hadfield's ...
My Grandfather, Owen John Owen, worked for them from 1915 until 1965 when he retired.
Hadfield's got acquired by Fisons.
I've got a file somewhere full of clippings, photos and letters from his time with the firm.
His father (a coal merchant) died when Owen was 6.
Aged 14 he was sent with a one way ticket to Liverpool from Groeslon.
He lodged in a house on Daisy Street and worked on the docks, as he used to describe his first job as "shoveling shite" from the boats to be used in the making of fertilzer.
He eventually moved into his own house on Sidney Road, Bootle, then out to Crosby with his wife and 2 daughters.
As a lad I remember an antique hammock he gave us off an old clipper.
I'd love to see pictures of the docks as he would have seen them as a 14 year old.
Anyway, here's a photo of him when he was about 18.
More info to follow.
My Grandfather, Owen John Owen, worked for them from 1915 until 1965 when he retired.
Hadfield's got acquired by Fisons.
I've got a file somewhere full of clippings, photos and letters from his time with the firm.
His father (a coal merchant) died when Owen was 6.
Aged 14 he was sent with a one way ticket to Liverpool from Groeslon.
He lodged in a house on Daisy Street and worked on the docks, as he used to describe his first job as "shoveling shite" from the boats to be used in the making of fertilzer.
He eventually moved into his own house on Sidney Road, Bootle, then out to Crosby with his wife and 2 daughters.
As a lad I remember an antique hammock he gave us off an old clipper.
I'd love to see pictures of the docks as he would have seen them as a 14 year old.
Anyway, here's a photo of him when he was about 18.
More info to follow.
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Dan wrote:Well here's something else I didn't have a clue about either, Loretta.
Stanley Dock Branch of the Liverpool-Leeds canal.
Hadfield's Bone Fertilizer.
Lightbody Street, Stanley Dock.
Founded 1820. Still going in 1911.
It looks as though it was a big factory, and the smell must have been horrendous. (I worked in the tallow trade for a few years.)
Love the donkey in this photo.
Not a clue what happened to Hadfield's. Although Marine Guano started to be imported from the islands off Peru around this time, and there was loads of it.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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Great photo Owen.
Look forward to your information on Hadfield's. It must have employed thousands over the years.
Had another look at the siting of the factory.
The OS Map of 1910 shows Hadfield's stood beside the second and part of the third of the Liverpool Locks.
The Nr. Stanley Dock on the address threw me.
It's labelled the Manure Works.
The site is now a housing development, although why there's no Manure Close is beyond me.
The factory stood this side of the Liverpool-Southport railway line to the right of the locks, from the railway to the bottom of the photo.
Lockside view, showing the lock gate between the second and third locks,from Landor Close.
Regards
Dan
Look forward to your information on Hadfield's. It must have employed thousands over the years.
Had another look at the siting of the factory.
The OS Map of 1910 shows Hadfield's stood beside the second and part of the third of the Liverpool Locks.
The Nr. Stanley Dock on the address threw me.
It's labelled the Manure Works.
The site is now a housing development, although why there's no Manure Close is beyond me.
The factory stood this side of the Liverpool-Southport railway line to the right of the locks, from the railway to the bottom of the photo.
Lockside view, showing the lock gate between the second and third locks,from Landor Close.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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Rimrose Road. The big glass fronted unit, that looked like the RAC building on the M6 was demolished towards the tail end of 2017.
Worked opposite it for nine years. Never seemed to be occupied.
Old Oil Salvage garage and laboratory (UKAS No. 4704) on the upper left.
The Muncaster photobombing bottom right.
Worked opposite it for nine years. Never seemed to be occupied.
Old Oil Salvage garage and laboratory (UKAS No. 4704) on the upper left.
The Muncaster photobombing bottom right.
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Walsh
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Dan, Good to see the Vitginia cloud image. It is rare to see natural examples of ripply, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds arising from high local wind shear; years ago, I worked on forming such features in a controlled wind and water trough. Walshy.
