Old and Victorian Liverpool - Black 'n' White photos

[yoshef]

this was on Flickr, Martin97uk

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[xkopite]

Hi Tony Sebo

Thanks for that reminder mate, I will have to look them up.

[Doug Roberts]

One for xkopite.

[xkopite]

One of my favourite,s Doug.

Thanks for posting

[MR KITE]

More here www.oldstratforduponavon.com/liverpool.html

[yoshef]

Originally Posted by MR KITE

Great find I look at most of the old pictures in this thread and think if only it were still like that, but in this instance, with regards to the foreground, I didn't. I'd walked past St Johns Gardens this afternoon and it was heaving, I'd never seen it so packed before. In comparison the old photos make the area look deserted for a change.

[Neilsatiscitycentre]

And look! No big trees obscuring the view of the best neo classical buildings in the UK. The way it was meant to be, and was, until, relatively speaking, recent times.

[pacef8]

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part of my dingle tunnel set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacef8/...7614435175723/

[Dreamer]

Originally Posted by pacef8

image hosted on flickr


part of my dingle tunnel set

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacef8/...7614435175723/

Shame they cant reinstate it

[Liverpool Playboy]

Originally Posted by Dreamer

Shame they cant reinstate it

It can easily be reinstated. The tunnel is there, the Northern Line is beneath the tunnel portal, the station is still intact. A gantry taking trains from the cliff tunnel can be taken down to the Northern Line below. It can be in a fancy designed, attractive enclosed tube to keep noise away from the flats.

Then inner city Dingle will have its own Merseyrail station, for minimal cost as most is still there.

[jay_90_08]

Originally Posted by Liverpool Playboy

It can easily be reinstated. The tunnel is there, the Northern Line is beneath the tunnel portal, the station is still intact.

my mate's dad's garage is in that tunnel.

they would have to move them out first and i dont think they would go happily, he's been there a while

[Liverpool Playboy]

Originally Posted by jay_90_08

my mate's dad's garage is in that tunnel.

they would have to move them out first and i dont think they would go happily, he's been there a while

The community comes first, he would be compensated. Dingle was meant to be a through station as the plans were to to bore the tunnel further and terminate further inland when funds became available. That could also still happen, taking the tunnel across Sefton Park, rising and joining up around Smithdown Rd with the line to Lime Street. Of course leaving the odd station in the tunnel along the way.

[jay_90_08]

Originally Posted by Liverpool Playboy

The community comes first, he would be compensated.

suppose you're right

[MR KITE]

Sorry to depress you all, but stumbled across this good site
http://chesterwalls.info/gallery.html


Edward Chambré Hardman: Liverpool South Docks from Liver Building c 1955






The First Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street


The Customs House 3: Viewed from South Castle Street c 1910


Lord Street






The David Lewis Hotel:Great George Street June 1977

[Awayo]

Like the Cortina.

[Liverpool Playboy]

The photo was 1935 not 1955.

[BeeGee]

Superb find Mr Kite, the Customs House ones really do illustrate what a wonderful building the city is missing.

[Chris B]

Agreed. In fact, the whole area around the Customs House was so much better back in the day. Regarding the first photo, does anyone know when the access point between Canning and Salthouse Docks was filled in and why? I always thought it odd the two weren't linked, but clearly they were at some point.

[Sharecropper]

I have just spent over 2 hours going through these amazing photographs as I research for some photos of Sackville Street Everton, which lay between Netherfield Road, Great Homer Street and adjacent to Roscommon Street, before either the Germans bombed it or the slum clearance programme knocked it down.

I apologise if this isn't the right place to post this, but could anyone direct me to where I might find photos of this street?

Many thanks.

[BeeGee]

Do not know if the exact site you are looking for is here, but the following site contains an impressive 394 old black and white Liverpool scenes

http://www.watcha.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/