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Welcome aboard Mike, and great to see you posting

Mack ( Bootle site admin )

Hiya Mike, welcome to the site, I’ve enlarged your photos.

Amazing photos, Mike, thanks for sharing.

Bootle Metropole Theatre, which was situated opposite the Triad on Stanley Road Bootle.

bobhamo

bootlebuck wrote:Fat Boy, l was born in Ash Street, what an eye sore, some clever person has had ALL the bay windows removed, WHY, far better they rebuilt Gable wall of 23. & re roofed them all. I suppose some bodys idea of Modernisation.

Hiya BB, thanks for replying to my posts in big bold words, or is it called italic writing?

1907
bobhamo

Great photo of St Jimmy's Church Bob, and the coal sidings, plus all the houses in Chestnut Grove.

Waterloo Motos South Road Waterloo no date.

First time i have seen that one Joe
must be Speke ,Formby,Kirby place
nice waterloo one joe
bobhamo

Cheers Bob, I think it was on the corner of South Road and Mount Pleasant.

New house built in Aber Street Bootle 1950s. Our house on Irlam Road backed onto these new houses.

Jack Tasker’s first store in Westminster Road Kirkdale, the 1950s.

Kings Gardens, on Stanley Road Bootle no date.

Joe, that picture of door size hardboard in Taskers 7/9, made me smile.
That sheet would cost £11.00 in B&Q today Ken

It just goes to show how much we’ve been ripped off, since decimalisation Ken.

The Five Lamps Waterloo no date.

Joe, Nice photos. The Taskers, Kirkdale one made me think back to part of a house we used to rent when I was 5, in the 50s. We lived at the back of a cobbler's shop at 55A Waterworks Street. During the day, the cobbler's tools, including an abrasive belt, were often heard and the smell of leather and dye was heavy. To modernise the doors, my Da (who worked on the docks as a rigger) covered them, at the weekends, with smooth hardboard, which was then painted in fashionable (50s) colours (pink) and suitable door furniture was fitted (lilac, ridged bakelite bow handles). The 6 inch shirting board had generations of paint layers so a paraffin blowlamp was used to burn off old gloss paint (I can still recall the smells). A new, Hoover vacuum cleaner helped to clean up the debris and a special, paint spraying attachment was deployed to rapidly paint the doors (and other items - my Da was great at slinging pulleys and ropes but not so handy at DIY). I marvelled at the tools needed. As a teenager, I had learned some woodworking skills and returned to Taskers in the 60s to obtain 3/8 inch thick rectangular plywood sections, cut to size. I carefully soaked and countered these, glued and pinned them together then finished a new radiogram off with a glued on formica laminate (having a wood finish!). Within a few years, radiograms (and formica finishes) were obsolete - but the wood was recycled in other projects, including a motorbike seat. Walshy.

fatboyjoe90 wrote:

bootlebuck wrote:Fat Boy, l was born in Ash Street, what an eye sore, some clever person has had ALL the bay windows removed, WHY, far better they rebuilt Gable wall of 23. & re roofed them all. I suppose some bodys idea of Modernisation.

Hiya BB, thanks for replying to my posts in big bold words, or is it called italic writing?

Hi Joe 90 right 2nd time it is "BOLD ITALIC"

fatboyjoe90 wrote:Hiya Mike, welcome to the site, I’ve enlarged your photos.

Joe sorry BUT YOU HAVE SET ME A PUZZLE, your phoOt of a thatched cottage at LINACRE LANE/STANLEY ROAD.
I was at Linacre lane school from 1947 & despite playing in the NORTH PARK NEVER saw such, I think possible you
have either read your dates wrong, or the Author of said photo had dropped a stich. SORRY. i have just realised you are the enlarger NOT
original poster. silly old bugger haha

Bootle Buck ,

it is still there the old civil defence depot
the thatched cottage was further along w here the broadway was
Linacre School is the only old school left in bootle
all my family attended
bobhamo

Hiya BB, it wasn't my photo, I only enlarged it for Mike.

That's a great photo, Bob, I haven't seen that one before.

Welsh Methodist Church choir Stanley Bootle 1906.

Great Crosshall Street 1965.

fatboyjoe90 wrote:Great Crosshall Street 1965.

Joe...What a great picture. The grey and yellow lorry is obviously a Dennis bin wagon of Liverpool Corporation
Cleansing Department. My friend Philip (Percy) Quirk from Huyton drove one of these for many years.
His regular location was Whitechapel, Victoria Street, Crosshall Street, and Dale Street. I am trying to identify
the red Bedford TK boxvan that is turning right into Gt. Crosshall Street, but without success. It looks like the
firms product is shown on the vans bodywork. Thank you Joe, Cheers, Ray.

BOBHAMO wrote:
bobhamo

New roads, new shops and new dwellings as the £5million New Strand scheme takes shape in Bootle, Liverpool. October 25, 1966.

Gray street 1908
bobhamo

I like your photo of Gray Street School Bob.

Donkey, with a family in a cart at Blundellsands 1904.

fatboyjoe90 wrote:Welsh Methodist Church choir Stanley Bootle 1906.

Couldn't resist Joe.



Regards

Dan