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wow!! 54The repaired wall of the Lime Street to Edge Hill cutting, following collapse.
7.9.2024 16:23Comment on Brooks House, Hanover Street by mccarvilleeain1988I used to live in the Garston as my mum and dad at the time where publicans and they used to come along and do relief for greenalls so I lived there for 1-2 years and then we moved on to the heath in Allerton, it seems bizarre seeing pictures of a place I once called my home.
5.9.2024 10:21Comment on Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’ by LaurenIn reply to <a href="https://chrisiles.co.uk/2022/02/11/demolition-of-the-former-garston-hotel/comment-page-1/#comment-796">Ian Hardy</a>.
Haha, yeah. We were good friends back then. It is a small world. Amazing
In reply to <a href="https://chrisiles.co.uk/2022/02/11/demolition-of-the-former-garston-hotel/comment-page-1/#comment-795">Chris Iles</a>. Good lord Chris, I’ve just twigged who you are! We were really good friends back then, I remember coming round your house. My mum would bring me up to yours and vice versa. it really is a small world isn’t it? What are the odds?
13.7.2024 20:27Comment on Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’ by Ian HardyIn reply to <a href="https://chrisiles.co.uk/2022/02/11/demolition-of-the-former-garston-hotel/comment-page-1/#comment-794">Ian Hardy</a>.
Hi Ian
Wow its a small world. I lived on Seddon Road back then, I remember the adventure playground that was the dock estate very well. We were friends back then, regularly playing together, even coming to your nans house. Loved those early childhood years. Nice to hear from you
In reply to <a href="https://chrisiles.co.uk/2022/02/11/demolition-of-the-former-garston-hotel/comment-page-1/#comment-793">Chris Iles</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hi Chris, thanks for the response. My family lived at no.51 originally, which was demolished in about 1973 to make way for a lorry park.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We moved up the road to a block of terraced houses opposite what is now the ABP dock office which is now the only building left standing from those days. We lived at no. 23. Have great memories of my early childhood there as we effectively lived in the middle of an adventure playground for kids, with the docks, container bases and all the declining industry.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>My Nan, whose house it was was Margaret Phillips. She was well known to all on the docks as she cleaned most of the offices in the road.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>it was a unique road to live on. A dock at the bottom, two level crossings, the signal box and our own police station!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Great memories!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
12.7.2024 06:47Comment on Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’ by Ian HardyIn reply to <a href="https://chrisiles.co.uk/2022/02/11/demolition-of-the-former-garston-hotel/comment-page-1/#comment-792">Ian</a>.
Hi Ian,
Im afraid I dont know the whereabouts of the Dock Road sign. Would be a nice thing to have.
I remember playing down the dock road, in the scrap yard on the Routemaster bus and the dissused railway siding and signal box. Happy memories
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>used to live on Dock Road.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>would love to know who ended up with the cast iron Dock Road sign off the side of the building as I would love to have it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
10.7.2024 23:14Comment on Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’ by IanOn Tuesday 28 February 2017, there was, without warning, a catastrophic collapse of a section of the original sandstone wall that ran along the top edge of the Lime Street to Edge Hill Cutting. The old Sandstone wall, was over 20 metres above track level and close to the Williamson’s Tunnels between Mason Street and […]
31.1.2024 18:47The repaired wall of the Lime Street to Edge Hill cutting, following collapse.Main Queensway Tunnel | The Old Dock The Queensway Tunnel, was the first of two road tunnels to be built under the River Mersey, connecting Liverpool to the Wirral. The second being the newer Kingsway Tunnel, which opened in 1971. Construction of Liverpool’s Queensway Tunnel began in 1925 and by 1928, the two pilot tunnels […]
14.1.2024 19:08Queensway, River Mersey TunnelLand Rover’s and Off Roading | Woodvale Show 2007 Land Rover’s and Off Roading Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles, have always been renowned for their exceptional off road capabilities. Each year, during my childhood, my family and I would go on a summer holiday to my aunt & uncle’s farm in Wiltshire. Whilst staying […]
10.1.2024 15:27Land Rover’s and Off RoadingWho remembers this now long lost, Hanover Street building?… The building was originally named ‘Brooks House’, 31 Hanover Street and was the former home of Joseph Brooks, a Liverpool merchant & ropemaker. The house was believed to be one of Liverpool’s oldest buildings at this time. Thought to probably date from as early as the […]
17.11.2023 08:06Brooks House, Hanover StreetThe German built passenger ferry, Endeavour, whose last reported name is listed as, ‘Trinity’ – (IMO 5264663). She was originally built & launched in 1959 as the ‘Alte Liebe’. However since her launch, she has had several name changes: The ferry was in service until 1994 when she sailed into Liverpool for a planned business […]
17.11.2023 00:16EndeavourThe historic Warrington Transporter Bridge crosses the River Mersey close to Warrington Bank Quay Station. It is one of only 8 bridges of this type still surviving worldwide, having Grade II listing and Scheduled Monument protection. The current transporter was in use from 1916 until 1964 and has been out of use ever since. However, […]
18.9.2023 07:37Warrington Transporter Bridge[…] The landscape of Liverpool and Toxteth Park was dominated by water – The Mersey of course, the ‘Pool’ of Liverpool, the stream that later fed ‘Mather’s Dam’, the Dingle, Dickenson’s Dingle met the Mersey at St. Michael’s Hamlet. That was used to create Prince’s Park lake. In the south east are also the Upper and Lower Brooks that were used to form Sefton Park Lake. After these two brooks joined, they formed the ‘River Jordan’ and run underground at Aigburth Vale and then to the Mersey at Otterspool. […]
3.7.2023 14:13Comment on River Jordan, Aigburth by Discovered: The ancient boundaries of Toxteth Park. I also rechart the boundaries of Liverpool and Everton, befor...[…] The landscape of Liverpool and Toxteth Park was dominated by water – The Mersey of course, the ‘Pool’ of Liverpool, the stream that later fed ‘Mather’s Dam’, the Dingle, Dickenson’s Dingle met the Mersey at St. Michael’s Hamlet. That was used to create Prince’s Park lake. In the south east are also the Upper and Lower Brooks that were used to form Sefton Park Lake. After these two brooks joined, they formed the ‘River Jordan’ and run underground at Aigburth Vale and then to the Mersey at Otterspool. […]
30.6.2023 12:34Comment on River Jordan, Aigburth by Discovered: The ancient boundaries of Toxteth Park. I also rechart the boundaries of Liverpool and Everton, befor...I had heard about ancient footprints of our ancestors being discovered on Formby beach back in the 1950’s. I was fascinated by this discovery and wanted to learn more. So I booked on a ‘National Trust‘ guided tour to see the footprints for myself. These ancient footprints discovered on the beach at Formby, have been […]
26.4.2023 23:25Ancient Footprints on Formby beachA network of Top Secret subterranean Tunnels, passages and chambers, beneath Wirral’s New Brighton Palace amusement arcade, have quite an interesting historic story to tell… The New Brighton Palace Tunnels, said to date back over 200 years and thought to have been originally built and used by wreckers and smugglers. During WW2, the subterranean network […]
22.1.2023 03:29Creep Inn, Munitions Factory & WW2 BunkerAn alternative series of Landscape images, these images were all taken with either my ‘Ricoh XR7’ or ‘Nikon FA’ cameras. All were originally captured on 35mm Negative or Transparency film, in either Colour or Black & White, then digitised from their original format. Other Galleries Home | Gallery | Top of Page chrisiles.co.uk | © […]
22.1.2023 03:28Landscape – Digitised 35mm slides and negativesIn Liverpool’s historic past, there were ancient rivers, which strangely do not seem to exist anymore. However, many of these rivers still flow down to the Mersey. There existance largely hidden from view, flowing through a network of underground brick built culverts. A while ago, I posted a photograph showing one of Liverpool’s ancient river […]
22.4.2022 08:48River Jordan, Aigburth