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What a waste of a building
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Huge internationally recognised Nightclub and arts venue possibly? :wink:

The Fire Station in Bootle, Strand Road was once a great venue for music a long time a go back in the 80's.

I know I'm being silly and it ain't gonna happen but think about it as a "Super Club" for music and the arts.

Possibly convert in to spaces for small businesses to invigorate our local economy.

They will probably just knock it down and build something else new on the land.

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Mack don't think they will knock it down.
Two years ago it was going to be a school.
Then they said hotel and shops on the side of the building.
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I drive past it most days its an eye sore build some homes and bring life to the area
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Invest in a JCB and knock it down like Brunny says, build houses. :wink: K
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It would be lovely to see it used for something like shops, leisure centre, cinema etc.in its original form, or at least with its original façade. I suppose it would depend on whether it is in a fit condition to be converted and e.g. not full of dry rot.
Lived in Garden Lane Bootle then moved to Netherton, where my mum still lives.
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The building is just around the corner from me
ita i listed building the inside is not to bad
in the war barrage balloons where made there
plans for a new film company to turn it into liverpools elstree
the out line plans where submitted sept 2015
will keep you informed
knock it down and build houses there are a surplus of houses to rent
in this area
the average worker in full time work cannot get a morgage
there are lots of new estates built by me most are unaffordable so are then
rented out
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Bob thanks for that information it's a great building inside as you have said.
They have taken the boiler house at the back end of the building away.
The building was supposed to have a big football on it that lit up in the night but council rejected it.
Did you no that there is a tunnel that leads to the park with bunkers in it this was in war times
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Bury My Heart at Harry’s Wounded Knee-The Edge Lane Time Slip

Buffalo bill on edge lane
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Harry’s Knee X Ray

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“Bill” Queuing up at the Mc Donalds “Ride Through”
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The Famous Edge Lane Timeslip or bury my Heart at Harry’s Wounded Knee

This tale of supernatural jiggery pokery took place not so very long ago and ,have been due to various bits of demolition and refurbishment work going on around the old Plessey plant on Edge Lane.

Few people in the area realise that during the next but last century and the early part of the last century, when the royal; tournament hall and showground existed on the site of the old MPTE bus sheds, the old Plessey factory and the art deco Littlewoods building. The magnificent site sat some 15,000 spectators and was the officially opened by Queen Victoria, to jubilant crowds.



One night not so very long ago Harry Fazackerley (not his real name) was working the late shift as a security guard at the Marconi plant on edge lane. It was Harry’s job every hour to patrol the site checking various alarm systems and against any criminal entries to the site. Marconi at that time were building a top secret telephone system, System X, which commercial competitors were extremely interested in finding out information about the system

In the early hours of a November night, Harry had just drank his umpteenth cup of tea and was about to go out and start his last patrol.



He put his donkey jacket on picked up his walkie talkie and torch and set off down the long covered walkway at the side of the main building. Everything seemed normal and all Harry had to worry about was the cold and staying alert. As he passed the large double warehouse doors at the bottom of the walkway, he noticed a light shining through the gap of the door, on his last tour he was sure the light had not been there, he also heard a “thump thump thumping sound” as though some unknown individual was recreating tribal music, so he cautiously pulled the door open, unable to explain the sight in front of his own eyes.



Harry stepped through the doors. Instead of the rows of stored telephone exchange machinery he looked across a vista of Victorian Liverpool, grimy chimney pots belched sulphurous smoke into a bright autumn sky, but more extraordinary than this was what he saw in the foreground, camped out in the park in front of him were several rows of Native American tepees, with scores of Indians sitting and standing around their campfires all dressed in native buckskin clothing, he slowly walked over to a group of these, one of the strange gentlemen came over to him, “How” said the Indian Chef, for it was Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe. Harry was speechless… Sitting Bull took his arm and led him over towards the campfire, sitting him down, cross legged he passed Harry a Pipe and beckoned for him to take a toke.





The stuff in that pipe nearly blew Harry’s head clean off, few people realise that raw tobacco grown by native Americans has highly hallucinogenic properties, and quickly Harry’s head began to swim under the influence of the narcotic.





Before long Harry was beginning to feel right at home, but this state of euphoria was not to last, for a gloved hand clasped him on the shoulder and in a broad western American drawl and voice said, “There ain’t no time to sit ‘round chewin the fat with no pesky red skins” and as Harry turned and stood he was confronted with an immediately recognisable character from the old wild west….it was non other than Buffalo Bill, William F.Cody, bedecked in a handsome buckskin costume, cowboy hat, and magnificent beard and hair. “Git over thar and get the Custer Uniform on pretty sharpish the show’s about to begin.



Buffalo Bill had obviously mistaken Harry for the actor who was playing George Armstrong Custer, Harry tried to explain but was virtually frog marched to the tent and once inside did Bill’s bidding and got the costume and long blonde wig on. Before he knew it he had been ushered out and was on the back of a horse wearing dual colt revolvers on each hip, “Now get out there you varmit and make a show of it”, said Bill slapping Harry;s horse soundly.



The Pony galloped off into large arena, in which several dozen Indians and soldiers of 7th Cavalry were re-enacting the battle of the Little Big Horn. Harry hung onto the horse for dear life, but had no idea what to do, but fortunately the horse had other ideas and ran around the arena. Joining with the action, the cavalry men were quickly herded into the centre and as the Harry dismounted and began firing his gun, suddenly Harry felt a sharp pain in his knee and he fell to the floor in a feint, the next thing he knew he was coming too in the accident and emergency department of the royal hospital, back in the 20th century.



What was more peculiar was the fact that Harry was laying on a trolley with….an arrow in his knee. (see x-ray above), his fellow workamte standing nearby, Arthur had found Harry lying wounded outside of the warehouse gates, with the arrow frimly stuck in his patela. Harry could not explain how the “accident” had happened apart from the groggy recollections of the his involvement in the Custer reinactment in Victorian Liverpool. Harry has now lost use of his knee and is living off higher rate Disability Living Allowance with a mobility component somewhere in Kensington.

There is no logical explanation for this event, was it real or was Harry having some drug induced hallucination, he did have history of cannabis abuse when he was teenger in the 70’s or was it rent in the fabric of space and time, had Harry wandered aimlessly through a “timeslip” for the great Western impresario Buffalo Bill Cody did come to Liverpool with his Wild West show and they did give many performances at the old tournament ground off Edge Lane, the site is now occupied by the Liverpool Digital Building.





As we all know Timeslips are well documented phenomenon and this is probably a manifestation of such an event, what is much rarer is when people actually bring objects or people back from the past into the future. Harry’s Xray of his knee is proof of that though!



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Wow Bob, I found that fascinating!! :shock: :D thanks for posting it.

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All interesting stuff about Harry's time slip, especially the knee wound caused by the arrow of an Indian, (try explaining that to the D.L.A)
The fact that the shows were performed down Edge Lane is also interesting, makes sense, seeing how they had so much ground space for such a large performance - would have been very spectacular!
A lot going on in that area of city during late 1880s - West Derby Road having a couple of theatres and a circus, (must brush up on the history of these roads) pity we don't have any photos or sketches of what must have been a very splendid place in its time!!
Thanks Bob!!
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Very interesting stuff bob Thanks for that :mrgreen:
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bob. b wrote:Image
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What a waste of a building
It is going to be a TV and FILM studio complex costing 30million and work will start at the end of the year.
HENRY BORN FLORIDA STREET OFF STRAND ROAD
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Henry thanks for that great news
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Fantastic news :D :D :D

This is what we need here. New jobs for the new age of industry. Ta very much Henry for the update.

Mack :)
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Hope to have some more info on the building.
Second that Mack :D :D :D
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HENRY BORN FLORIDA STREET OFF STRAND ROAD
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Thanks for that info Henry. :wink: :)
Cheers Joe.
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