Old photos of Bootle

[BOBHAMO]

1919
bobhamo

[Silver-Haired-Hippy]

Nice photo Bob, where about is it? I wondered if it was Balliol Road?

Loretta

[BossHogg]

I can't quite read the road name, not sure if it's Merton Road or Balliol Road where it crosses Stanley Road.

[Paul]

Nice photo Bob

Paul

[henry]

I can't quite read the road name, not sure if it's Merton Road or Balliol Road where it crosses Stanley Road.

Merton road

[BossHogg]

Cheers mucker

[Elaine Goulding]

Bob, what a lovely picture, tree lined road, tram, lovely old houses, how nice Bootle used to be

[mrmmr]

Obviously it is Seaforth, but i am intrigued by the location of the Crosby sign. JJC. (great pictures as per usual) Thank you.

From Wikipedia (not memory) - Seaforth joined Crosby Municipal Borough in 1937, having previously been part of Waterloo with Seaforth urban district. The whole of Crosby became part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Sefton on 1 April 1974.

From 1918 to 1950 Seaforth was within the Parliamentary constituency known as Waterloo, a safe seat for the Conservative Party, and then until 2010 within the Crosby constituency, whose MP from 1997 to 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, of the Labour Party. Prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered a Conservative Party stronghold, like its predecessor seat, with Tory MPs elected at every election, except for the 1981 Crosby by-election, when Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected. As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election, the Crosby constituency was abolished and Seaforth was included in the expanded Bootle constituency, represented by the Labour MP Joe Benton.

For elections to Sefton Council, Seaforth is within the Church electoral ward and is represented by three councillors, all members of the Labour Party.

[mrmmr]

Crosby Road North Waterloo 1948.

That will mean the library was built over the wall on the right. I remember that Cinema, ... Superman was on there for ages... seamed like months...

[leso]

Great photo, Joe, what's that fella doing in the bottom right of the picture?

thats a handcart , it must have tipped up and all his stuffs fell off ,

great photo Joe.
I was brought up in crosby and often played at fort crosby the camp was along way north
of seaforth docks it was just north of hall road station on the beach side of hall road golf links.
regards les norman

[leso]

I remember buying a Bull worker from Schofields in 1977.

The car in the background was over the road to the school iI went to (st lukes) anthe best shop in the crown
buildings stokies where I used to buy my catapult elastic I remember he used to have a v8 pilot car
he used for weddings
les norman

[Dot Rogers]

These are all fabulous! Do you own these yourself....would I be allowed to use them for a school's history website about local sefton history do you think?
It would be great if I could,
Thanks for posting them anyway, I'm learning a lot! x

[Glenys]

Dot,
have a few old pics of 47 Linacre Lane, my grandpa's dairy, shop and home, which was lost May 1941. They may already be on here - I will check. You are more than welcome to use them as you wish.
Glenys

[Dot Rogers]

Seaforth Road, no date but looking at it, I'd say it's pre-war old police station next door to Scotts.

I have tried quiet hard but I can't get my head around this one....where in seaforth road is this?! I recognise the curly topped roof and thought it was the posty but have spent the last hour google mapping the whole street to find where this was to no avail!!! HELP! x

[ManOnThekop]

Dot on the left of Scotts bread shop is Seaforth police station.

[bjones]

Dot, that pic looks to have been taken from inside Bowerdale Park which is opposite the section of Seaforth Rd with Lime Grove, Hawarden Grove and Seaforth Vale running off it. I’m pretty sure that most of the properties pictured have now been rebuilt.

[ManOnThekop]

I just thought i would post a couple of pictures on Joes posts.


Blundellsands and Crosby Station

[efc46]

great photo,s our family moved from Henley street seaforth(just under The over head) to 75 Balfour road with a hand cart Our Len said to me dad we need a horse an cart me dad said "your the horse lad"we were a big family hard times for most family,s Our Len /Georgey an Irene all passed on wish I rit down some of the stories they would tell us younger ones

[garyoneturn]

Just for old gents that’s not very pc Ken

A slight slip of a finger Ken. The old disused gents toilet.

The station mentioned wasn’t Preston Road it was called warbreck

[ManOnThekop]

Lady’s day at Aintree 1937.

[fatboyjoe90]

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[BossHogg]

When was that demolished? I'm pretty sure I spent many times getting pretty wasted in the "Lithy" as a teenager.

[Bonesy]

Tom, sometime in the 80s I think, it was renamed the "Priory"
Demolished about 10 years ago and now has flats built on the site.

Keith

[BossHogg]

It was still there when I left in 97 for Cumbria, couldn't believe it when I visited last to find Secrets gone and the The White House was a KFC!

[fatboyjoe90]

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[fatboyjoe90]

Tom, sometime in the 80s I think, it was renamed the "Priory"
Demolished about 10 years ago and now has flats built on the site.

Keith

Keith, it was a lot later than 1980s when it closed.

[fatboyjoe90]

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[oriel55]

Fabulous architecture!

[fatboyjoe90]

Cheers oriel55 .

[fatboyjoe90]

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[Glenys]

Is that Park House Nursing Home which was run by a nuns nursing order?

[fatboyjoe90]

Yes Glenys, it's the same one i think it's a fabulous photo.

[Glenys]

Yes it is lovely building.

[fatboyjoe90]

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