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Great photo Bob,
To give a rough date, the shop on the corner Henry Ray, 330 Hawthorne Road (corner of Waterworks Street) listed in 1914 directory. I will have a look at the 1911 directory.
Jan
Old genealogists never die......they just lose their census.
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What a fab pic
Mack
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Wow what a photo .Is this looking down towards the Albion Pub? If so that old gas lamp was still there when I was at school .I think the teacher said it was the oldest one in Bootle .Something to do with it being on a different gas supply .I remember the bloke lighting it on winter nights .Thanks for the memories .You never know that could be my Dad playing in the street .Its great .
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Yeah Bob that's it .My brain just got into gear .I couldn't have seen the lamplighter lighting that particular light because it was always lit.You are brilliant .That was the teachers question.What did we notice about that Lamp .?It is amazing to think how they did that all those years ago .You could say I've just seen the light
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My Dad when he got demobbed got a job on the corpy lamplighter
he had a three wheeled delivery bike with a folding ladder on the front
wish i had a photo his job was to maintain the lamps clean the glass change mantel
they did service the sewer ones can remember my dad hiding the bike in numourous schools
got to admit the corpy when it was bootle kept all departments in great shape
my dad ended up as a caretaker goddard hall knowlsey road
the best corpy job going
bobhamo
he had a three wheeled delivery bike with a folding ladder on the front
wish i had a photo his job was to maintain the lamps clean the glass change mantel
they did service the sewer ones can remember my dad hiding the bike in numourous schools
got to admit the corpy when it was bootle kept all departments in great shape
my dad ended up as a caretaker goddard hall knowlsey road
the best corpy job going
bobhamo
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/ ... 64x647.jpg
Sorry Bob only a link...its all Icould do
Dorothy
Sorry Bob only a link...its all Icould do
Dorothy
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Great photo Dorothy
it s just what my dad had to do
the top of the ladder was a chain with rope wrapped round it so if the lampost
in the entries had no arms it was still safe to put the ladder up
bobhamo
it s just what my dad had to do
the top of the ladder was a chain with rope wrapped round it so if the lampost
in the entries had no arms it was still safe to put the ladder up
bobhamo
bootle born altcar road
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Hiya Dorothy,
Is this the link that you wanted to post?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ntury.html
Is this the link that you wanted to post?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ntury.html
Cheers Joe.
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dorothy834 wrote:http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/ ... 64x647.jpg
Sorry Bob only a link...its all Icould do
Dorothy
Cheers Joe.
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Hi Joe..I did'nt see the other pic's but glad you put them on
I remember the smog in 1952 ..Bootle had lots of smog days
I was trying just for the lamplighter on his own...I remember
them and also vaguely the man with the long pole who knocked
people up by tapping the pole on the bedroom window ...
Thanks again ..hope your well and getting out and about.
Dorothy
I remember the smog in 1952 ..Bootle had lots of smog days
I was trying just for the lamplighter on his own...I remember
them and also vaguely the man with the long pole who knocked
people up by tapping the pole on the bedroom window ...
Thanks again ..hope your well and getting out and about.
Dorothy
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Hi new to this. Ho nostalgic. I lived in Mill Lane in one of the old sandstone cottages. My nan lived in the terraces after the 'squashed tomatoe' entry/Jagger. We played out on the Bombay at the back of our house and in the boarded up houses of little Brookhill Road (who needs a doll house when you got that?). Went the Derby Park with Nan and uncles (Stan and Tony Lake just a couple of years older than me) picnics and hido in the Black Hills, etc. Amazing how much I remember as it was over 40 years ago. Loved my Janet and John days at Christ Church too . . .
Bootle/Netherton/Bootle/Netherton (and a few places inbetween!)
Christ Church/St Oswalds/Countess of Derby/Hugh Baird
Civil Service/NHS
Christ Church/St Oswalds/Countess of Derby/Hugh Baird
Civil Service/NHS