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ALAMO2008
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Loved Hay On Wye.
Great little new modern 50 seater cinema at the end of lane.
Could hear the Town Clock chime the quarter hour.
Could nip out in my slippers for Bread Milk Newspapers and Wine.
The Sunday Times did an article of the Ten Best Towns in Britain to live
Only one listed ( in no particular order) in Wales was Hay on Wye
It showed a Photo of Lilliput Cottage ( Ours)
Had I not fell in love with where we are now, I would not have moved.
Been up Pendinas many times, can see it from our Kitchen window.
Regularly sit in the Garden watching with my binoculars people on the top there or looking out to sea at the boats and occasionally Dolphins.
Waiting on a hip replacement in the next few weeks hence my increased activity on this forum, can hardly walk at the moment.
Hard to believe I used to play squash twice a day and we walked the Coastline of Wales
Cardiff to Caernarfon before the Assembly opened the Official Path.
Here's our Garden view:


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Brilliant view Alan.
You're exactly where I remember seeing a big, old house in the trees whilst standing on Tanybwlch beach.
Always thought it belonged to some long forgotten Lord of the Manor.

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I wish we had a 'like button' attached to each posting, so we could show how much we appreciate the time and trouble that all members take when starting or contributing to threads like this one.
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Just wish the Dockers, Carters and Asphalters Ancestors could see our place now.
Sadly our Parents passed away before we moved here.
Formerly the Home of Lord Ystwyth and lately Uli Roth Guitarist in German Rock band "The Scorpions"
(Wind of Change,) lived here with Jimi Hendrixs ex girlfriend.
Place built by Napoleonic War Hero with Wellington in Portugal and Spain
Fought all the Battles Sharpe did, personally captured two French Eagles and the Town of Salamanca

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Alan, I am honestly so pleased for you, but I hope you don't mind if I hate you for eternity.

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1935 Gladstone Dock gates

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3 minute silent film of the docks in the 1890s, shot from the Overhead Railway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOAvWKPbJ8

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Stanley Dock from the Liverpool Echo.

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Hartley and Tobacco Warehouses.

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April 5 1989

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Liverpool Water Inspectors 1800s

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Swing outside South Liverpool Hospital. There was always a rope on the street lamp by Hotspur Street.

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Going to the wash house

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North Park

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Atlantic Park

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1987 Foreground Salibury House, Chestnut House. To the rear Mersey House

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1987 Salisbury House

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Some of Nick Hedges photos taken for Shelter in1969.

Falkner Street

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1987 Stanley Road

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Earliest I can remember the Kwik Save site was the Victor Value store in about 1964/65.

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Dan, is that Kwik Save opposite the New Strand? Cant remember what it was called when I worked there for a very short time before going to work in Woolworths, I was about 16 then, so that would have been around 1962. Great photos again Dan!

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August 2018

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Loretta, ".. can't remember what it was called when I worked there..."?
You really must get that CV of yours updated girl.

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Was it a Fine Fare, Loretta?
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Could have been Phil, wasn't there long enough to make an impression! I remember having to take the cling film off the prepacked apples, turn over or around the ones that were bruised or going bad so the customer couldn't see them then resealing them again! I was only there about a month! Left to go to Woolies up the road!!! :lol: Thanks for the pics Dan!

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Cheers Phil.
Fine Fare and Genesis. Who'd have thought it?
From Wikipedia.

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filsgreen wrote:Was it a Fine Fare, Loretta?
The supermarket was Victor Value
I worked there on the bacon counter
HENRY BORN FLORIDA STREET OFF STRAND ROAD
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Cheers Henry
And you just reminded me Peter Kay's bacon slicer joke.
"I sacked her as well"

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I could have sworn it was a Fine Fare in the mid 70's, Henry. Can anyone remember where it was located then because there was definitely a Fine Fare in the Strand area.
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Before henry worked for Victor Value
it was called Cranes supermarket
and before that lonsworth ,raynard oil manufactors
we all shopped there :D :D :D
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BOBHAMO wrote:Before henry worked for Victor Value
it was called Cranes supermarket
and before that lonsworth ,raynard oil manufactors
we all shopped there :D :D :D
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filsgreen wrote:I could have sworn it was a Fine Fare in the mid 70's, Henry. Can anyone remember where it was located then because there was definitely a Fine Fare in the Strand area.
Victor value was 1960
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Could be that one Henry as it was around '62 when I worked there. Maybe we have met before the meet ups!! :lol: :lol:

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So it looks like I've been living in Ormskirk all these years.

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Dunnings Bridge / Church Road.

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March 8 2017

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Switch Island 2015

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Mid right Bootle Golf Course. Just to the right of the 6, Everton's old youth pitches on Park Lane, then Netherton Park school and the old English Electric site.
Mid left Dodge, and just above, Bridle Road /Farriers Way Estate.

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I can see our first house ( nearly ) on Barnfield Close overlooking the Golfie :D Ken
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1894 Star and Garter pub St John's Lane

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c1900 St Peter's Church Church Street

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c1920 Vine Street

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1927 Beau Court Cazneau Street

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1934 Kardomah Church Street

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1934 Kardomah Interior

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My Mum used to work in the Kardomah that was on the Corner of Whitechapel near Matthew Street in the early 1960s
She regularly served The Beatles.
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Think that's the one your mum worked at Alan. Just a few yards from Whitechapel.

Back to Victor Value.

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I think we had a Victor Value in the Square, when it was first built.
Became Tesco, then Ethel Austin and now Betfred.

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it is not the one on Stanley Road
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Apologies.
Hinckley December 3 1962.

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Gladstone Dock

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c 1890 Widnes

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From BBC News.

No money in Hammond's budget for Liverpool's promised HS2 link.

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Pictured in 2016


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Thomas Monk Newell.

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1922 Gladstone Dock

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