Keith
Adverts for local companies
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Dan
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1978 New Stand
3 Banks at the junction of Linacre Lane & Road, Knowsley Road and Stanley Road.
c1890s Linacre Village. Silhouette of The Linacre at the top of the Hill, Litherland Road off to the right.
344 Stanley Road
August 2018 344 Stanley road
Regards
Dan
3 Banks at the junction of Linacre Lane & Road, Knowsley Road and Stanley Road.
c1890s Linacre Village. Silhouette of The Linacre at the top of the Hill, Litherland Road off to the right.
344 Stanley Road
August 2018 344 Stanley road
Regards
Dan
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Walsh
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- Location: Southampton
Dan. Great maps and adverts, thanks. I particularly enjoyed the Meccano Magazine. My first, incomplete set of Meccano, bought from Sharrat's shop at the corner of Brookhill Road and Cornwall Street,aged 8 in 1960, was a real 'bitsa' but encouraged me to make, repair and modify pieces of flat, slotted, painted steel to make ambitious devices shown in the instruction book. As an engineering student and apprentice, I often had to put up 'Dexion' shelving, the angled slotted steel supports being like a big version of Meccano, but needing to be cut to size with a guillotine or hacksaw. In my qualified 20s, we often used Dexion framework to support temporary chemical plant or mechanical engine testbeds. Lessons of a lifetime, starting in the corner shop and travelling through industry, universities and garages. Walshy.
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Walsh
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Dan said 'Walshy, don't tell me you never had a Contemporary Bricklayer Kit'.
I also bought a Bayko kit from Sharrat's shop.One of the most fascinating construction kits I ever saw - as it was thin steel rods acting as a scaffold for prefabricated plastic sections of walls, windows, door and roof - reminded me very much of the prefabs that some of my mates lived in down the Marsh lane end of Brookhill Road and in Little Strand Road. Most of us happily lived in condemned terraced slums with outside loos and a backyard, so it came as a social shock to see that all the houses built in the instruction book had driveways, sizeable gardens, bay windows, balconies and were semis or detached, with marvellous door canopies and coloured tile roofs. At the tender age of 9, I first realised that we were working class but Bayko was aimed at middle class kids! Lego came later but was less class biased. Meccano made great cranes - which seemed class-less at the time. Walshy.
I also bought a Bayko kit from Sharrat's shop.One of the most fascinating construction kits I ever saw - as it was thin steel rods acting as a scaffold for prefabricated plastic sections of walls, windows, door and roof - reminded me very much of the prefabs that some of my mates lived in down the Marsh lane end of Brookhill Road and in Little Strand Road. Most of us happily lived in condemned terraced slums with outside loos and a backyard, so it came as a social shock to see that all the houses built in the instruction book had driveways, sizeable gardens, bay windows, balconies and were semis or detached, with marvellous door canopies and coloured tile roofs. At the tender age of 9, I first realised that we were working class but Bayko was aimed at middle class kids! Lego came later but was less class biased. Meccano made great cranes - which seemed class-less at the time. Walshy.
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Silver-Haired-Hippy
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Brilliant Dan!! 
Loretta
Loretta
A bit of Bootle in Wales
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Walsh
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Dan. I appreciated the tower crane- my fist serious Meccano construction. The photo of street footy instantly takes me back to happy days when we would temporarily discard our sweaters, turning them into goal posts, form two, matched teams and play until your Ma called you in for tea or bed. We lived near a busy, black lead works. Before eating or sleeping, my Ma would use a flannel and carbolic to scrub my knees clean of graphite, while I stood in the sink! Graphite became one of my major interests as an engineer and scientist. Walshy.
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Dan
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Cheers Loretta, Walshy,Graham.
Graham ,you really must practise more.
Some board games.
From America, but I think I missed out on this.
The inventor wanted to call the game Hobby. But that name was already trademarked. So he called it Subbuteo.
Subbuteo subbuteo is the Latin name for the hobby hawk.
Regards
Dan
Graham ,you really must practise more.
Some board games.
From America, but I think I missed out on this.
The inventor wanted to call the game Hobby. But that name was already trademarked. So he called it Subbuteo.
Subbuteo subbuteo is the Latin name for the hobby hawk.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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Some pictures of Kirkby. A suburb of Bootle, 6.04 miles to the north east of the Motherland.
c1900 Mill Dam Lake
c1900 School Lane now County Road looking N to Bank Lane
2016 Same view
c1905 Kirkby Smithy corner of Glover's Brow and Mill Lane
c1910 St Chad's
c1920 Coal Office, now Railway Hotel
2016 Railway Hotel
Kirkby Corn Mill demolished 1950s
2017 Site of Kirkby Corn Mill
1910 Kirkby Station
Same
1970 Kirkby Station
April 23 1970 Kirkby Station
1977 Kirkby Station
2015 Kirkby Station
June 23 1946 Student teachers Kirkby Emergency Training College
April 26 1961 Kirkby Market
1966 Kirkby Market
1972 Kirkby Market
St Kevin's
Waterworks Tower.Site became St Kevin's playing fields
1980s St Kevin's playing fields
2015 Site of old St Kevin's playing fields
1966 Bird's Eye .Closed 1989
Kirkby Baths
Kirkby Library
May 22 1976 Kirkby CC leaving for Belgium
August 1977 Westvale Summer Carnival
1970s Kirkby Stadium
1972
View from Oak Towers
1992 View from Roughwood Heights
1982 Tower Hill
Kirkby
1980s Moorfield
2017 Moorfield
January 17 1984 Kirkby College
Town Centre
Town Centre
September 1994
2015
September 1994
2015
Regards
Dan
c1900 Mill Dam Lake
c1900 School Lane now County Road looking N to Bank Lane
2016 Same view
c1905 Kirkby Smithy corner of Glover's Brow and Mill Lane
c1910 St Chad's
c1920 Coal Office, now Railway Hotel
2016 Railway Hotel
Kirkby Corn Mill demolished 1950s
2017 Site of Kirkby Corn Mill
1910 Kirkby Station
Same
1970 Kirkby Station
April 23 1970 Kirkby Station
1977 Kirkby Station
2015 Kirkby Station
June 23 1946 Student teachers Kirkby Emergency Training College
April 26 1961 Kirkby Market
1966 Kirkby Market
1972 Kirkby Market
St Kevin's
Waterworks Tower.Site became St Kevin's playing fields
1980s St Kevin's playing fields
2015 Site of old St Kevin's playing fields
1966 Bird's Eye .Closed 1989
Kirkby Baths
Kirkby Library
May 22 1976 Kirkby CC leaving for Belgium
August 1977 Westvale Summer Carnival
1970s Kirkby Stadium
1972
View from Oak Towers
1992 View from Roughwood Heights
1982 Tower Hill
Kirkby
1980s Moorfield
2017 Moorfield
January 17 1984 Kirkby College
Town Centre
Town Centre
September 1994
2015
September 1994
2015
Regards
Dan
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Shelagh
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Many fabulous pictures, memories of places, shops, childhood games.
Monopoly still going strong, just bought Monopoly Fortnight (whatever that means) for grandson, (hints dropped for weeks
)
Rice Lane filled with shops, lived down that way during the early seventies, local shops were so handy - County Rd, Walton Rd, Walton Vale!
Very convenient, much prefer the old fashioned shops
Remember Irwin's, Costigan's, Co-Op, Liggetts, Maypole - all those familiar shop aromas!
Remember when Kids played outside (whatever the weather) anyone for lallio, Kick the can - Kirb or wall
Thanks Dan
Monopoly still going strong, just bought Monopoly Fortnight (whatever that means) for grandson, (hints dropped for weeks
)Rice Lane filled with shops, lived down that way during the early seventies, local shops were so handy - County Rd, Walton Rd, Walton Vale!
Very convenient, much prefer the old fashioned shops
Remember Irwin's, Costigan's, Co-Op, Liggetts, Maypole - all those familiar shop aromas!
Remember when Kids played outside (whatever the weather) anyone for lallio, Kick the can - Kirb or wall
Thanks Dan
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Dan
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Thanks Walshy, Graham.
Christmas Pantos.
c1880s
1896
1897
1956
1964
1966
1977
1979 Mike Newman Helene Hunt Tom O'Connor Davy Jones Jack & The Beanstalk
1982 Mother Goose John Inman
1985
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Stan Boardman
Stan Boardman is third from the right.
1991
1992
2005
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2015 Dick Whittington
2018
Regards
Dan
Christmas Pantos.
c1880s
1896
1897
1956
1964
1966
1977
1979 Mike Newman Helene Hunt Tom O'Connor Davy Jones Jack & The Beanstalk
1982 Mother Goose John Inman
1985
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Stan Boardman
Stan Boardman is third from the right.
1991
1992
2005
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2015 Dick Whittington
2018
Regards
Dan