knowsley road

IanA · Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:52 pm

Great picture. I've not seen this one before. Any date? I'm guessing 1947.

King Tonka · Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:52 pm

Great pic as usual Bob,

Still recognizable, it hasn't changed much.

I remember when they got rid of the pre fabs, and the water was gushing out every where as they hadn't turned it off.

Cheers

Ed Davies · Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:09 pm

Great pic Bob my ggrandmother had a sweet shop at 106 Knowsley rd in the 1901 census are all the shops still their?
Ed

beryl · Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:48 pm

A great photo of Knowsley Rd I can remember it well also the telephone box to the left of the photo .
This was when we never had telephones in our home we would queue up and put our money in the slot when it was running out you would hear the pips,
if you stayed to long the next person would tap on the window.i

I lived in Gray St I can just see it in the background thanks for a lovely photo and happy memories of Bootle

paula j · Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:04 am

i remember knowsley rd well and that phone box when the money ran out we'd push a lollie ice stick in the coin slot.

beryl · Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:31 pm

Also the clock brings back memories i all was looked at the clock on my way to school ,I think it was outside the chemist the name of the chemist escapes me at the moment also the prefabs in the back ground oh happy times. I think Costigans was on the right of the picture you could always buy broken biscuits from there.

sheila · Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:15 pm

Beryl

the clock was outside Fred Williams, he was next door to Chambers the hardware shop, and the other side was a bakers, with the sweet shop, then Fells the bike shop and lastly the chemists before the Queens pub.

Sheila

Eddy Lloyd · Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:35 pm

Wasn't it called Normans the Chemist??

sheila · Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:24 pm

Eddy

wasn't Normans down by the winnie

sheila

Eddy Lloyd · Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:45 pm

ye could have been Sheila.

Bootle Lad · Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:45 pm

Hi Eddy
Normans was under the bridge along from the Caradoc in Crosby Rd. Foxy's mam Peggy used to work there
Regards Ray

daveowe · Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:56 pm

Sheila/Eddy/ Ray

There is still a Normans, Chemist in Walton Road not many Independants left nowadays.

Dave

Eddy Lloyd · Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:11 am

Cheers Ray. I remember reading that in Ron Nixons book. Good old Foxy eh what a charachter he was.

Bootle Lad · Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:17 am

Hi Eddy
I knew you would remember Foxy, he lived right opposite you in KnowsleyRd
Regards Ray

Eddy Lloyd · Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:07 pm

Correct Ray. I was actually with Foxy when he jumped off the scaffold in Robinsons onto a pile of sand and his teeth went through his lip.

JULIA ARROWSMITH · Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:41 pm

were these the teeth in question

Eddy Lloyd · Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:41 pm

Julia.

Bootle Lad · Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:33 pm

Nice one Julia
Hi Eddy I was there too, It wasn't funny at the time but now we can look back and have a laugh
Ray

Eddy Lloyd · Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:57 am

Indeed we can Ray. Amazing how we made our own fun back then. Playing out till it got dark and my sister Jean singing at the top of her voice. "Eddy where are you me mams gonna kill you"

Tick on the back yard walls in the entry at the back of Donald McCulloughs. Footy in Trent Street, cricket in the street, a six if it hit Robinsons wall without bouncing. And of course we had the docks, railways and woodyards for adventures who needed tellys and computer games back then.

Bootle Lad · Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:11 am

Hi Ed
and if you dropped a catch on the pavement by Robbo's, you would blame the double decker for getting in the way, I remember once playing footy in Addison St and the ball went on to Knowsley Rd and the driver didn't stop and ran over the ball and bust it. Gerry Garvey and a couple of others followed it down to the terminus and pulled all the light bulbs upstairs and down and smashed them. What nice kids we were
Ray

Eddy Lloyd · Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:07 am

Ray

DonDeeg · Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:32 am

My Grandad lived in Collins St.

Bootle Lad · Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:51 am

Hi Donny
Did you know Ron Nixon.
I am sure he used to mention your name to me from St Georges
Ray Mears

gabbii1960 · Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:03 pm

im making a short film
im making a short film about the second world war and im very interested about your knowledge of it

. I would be grateful for as much information as possible. Im building the project around bootle, specifically marsh lane. i would be grateful for any info and stories that you could send me.
Thanks

xx

DonDeeg · Fri May 01, 2009 3:54 am

The name sounds familiar, but it's been a long time since St Georges..

Mojo · Sat May 16, 2009 8:36 am

the clock was outside Fred Williams, he was next door to Chambers the hardware shop, and the other side was a bakers, with the sweet shop, then Fells the bike shop and lastly the chemists before the Queens pub.

The chemist was Chrystoids. I used to buy my make-up there when my mum wasn't looking

maggie · Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:52 am

Does any rember Kennerdays the shoe shop on the corner of little Moore street. Scotts was on the orther corner next ti Sid Fishal the tailor. My mother worked in the shoe shop for years, we lived in a prefab in the north park.

stevegrady · Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:27 pm

it was called chrystoids, my wife worked there early 60 s.mr hopwood the manager who lived over the barber shop, mr carruthers was the other gent my wife (to be )was maxine.

Eddy Lloyd · Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:09 pm

Bob is it possible for me to use that Knowsley Road pic for my book?

Lazza · Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:26 pm

sheila wrote:Beryl

the clock was outside Fred Williams, he was next door to Chambers the hardware shop, and the other side was a bakers, with the sweet shop, then Fells the bike shop and lastly the chemists before the Queens pub.

Sheila

Hi all, long time since I've logged on. I trust you are all well.
Sheila, wasn't that "Chandlers" Hardware?

Bob, I looked at that piccy a long time. Thanks.

sheila · Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:03 pm

It was the Chambers who owned the chandlers, his mother lived in Eliot St and his future sister in law Iris worked there also. Can't be sure of his name but he and his wife had 2 sons one was called Robin again not sure what the other boy was called.

Sheila

graham · Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:14 am

There used to be a barbers shop in Knowsley Road. I went there once for a haircut, it must have been late '56, anyway this guy did not have electricity in his shop. This being so he cut my hair using a comb and a cut throat razor. He then tried to disguise the fact he had made a mess of it and proceeded to try and set my head on fire under the guise of giving me a singe. Needless to say I never went therer again.
I like the wet cobbles and tram lines which were the ultimate death penalty for those of us who rode bicycles and latterly motor bikes

FrannyD · Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:52 am

Hey Graham,
The name of that barbers was 'Braines' opposite the Gainey, next door but one to Reddings, I think. Sheila will know.
I only went there once, too, sat on a plank across the arms of the chair.
Cheers,
Frank.

Bootle Lad · Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:03 am

Hi Sheila
The other Chambers boy was Brian. Robin and I were in the same class at Gray St and I often visited them in the shop, and I lived above the Launderette for a year or so in the 80s. My old mate Billy Cranhams mum Lily worked in the Launderette along with May and Betty. Did the Chambers not live above their shop
cheers Ray