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Dan
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Brito Margarine Works Broadgreen.

1928 The Cocoa Works and Brito Margarine Broadgreen. ( Don't know which is which)

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Van den Bergh Foods Limited

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Thanks for that,Dan. Liverpool must have been a giant factory up to the late 70's
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I worked in oils and fats for 30 years, on and off, and I had never heard of Brito until I saw the aerial photo, then started a bit of digging.

It's like the final line in Scorsese's Gangs of New York.

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Walton Mission Hall

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1906 Merchant Taylor's Crosby

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Bootle Technical School September 2 1898

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Vernon's Pools Linacre Lane / Hawthorne Road

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1860 Plans for Council Offices in Dale Street

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Hanson's Long Lane Aintree

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From Building News January 27 1899.

Plaque to the poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

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Felicai Dorothea Hemans
September 25 1793 - May 16 1835


From Goodreads.

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The RAF is retiring its' Tornado jets this year.

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RAF Panavia Tornado GR4s

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Eurofighter Typhoon replacement.

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F-35 Lightning II

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My Dad used to quote the first few verses of "the Boy stood on the burning deck" poem. I wonder if he knew it was by a Liverpool Poet. I bet he did. I didn't though. It was unlike him to miss out on telling me (and everyone else) what wonderful things came from Liverpool.
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Liverpool Echo October 14 1985.Fashion.

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c1900 Liverpool General Post Office

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1934 Pet Market inside St John's Market

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Hansard. November 18 1976. Closure of Courtaulds Skelmersdale.

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Hansard. Marcg 26 1979. Dunlop Speke Closure.

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Tillotson's

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April/May 1963

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They look malnourished :wink: K
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Retail Analysis.

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Planning permission has been granted with conditions.

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Didn't realise that the old Ribble site was so big an area.
Thanks for posting Dan.


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Cheers Keith.

History of the surrounding area in maps.

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1909-1910

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1965-1967

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1988-1989

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History of the site in maps.

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1927

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1939

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1956

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1972

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1979-1980

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1994-1995

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1947 Adlam Park Fazakerley

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Adlam Park

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Shotton Steel 1896-1980.

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General Offices John Summers & Sons Shotton

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1910 Shotton Jetty

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Hansard July 17 1979

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From The Daily Post. Anniversary of Shotton Closure on March 31 1980.

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BBC News March 31 2016

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Tata Steel Shotton

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Is Shotton Paper still open? It was built by my former Parent Company UPM :wink: Ken
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It was still going 6 months ago. I used to analyse their waste lube oil.

Tough business though. The only recycling industry that is a regular earner is for aluminium cans.

The Aylesford Newsprint company mentioned below, shut down in 2015 with the loss of 230 jobs.

UPM Kymmene (UK) Limited.

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I started my Finnish career with UPM but in their mechanical side, Timber & Plywood etc.
The Aylesford Newsprint mill, just 15 miles from here, was a dog from start up. The Swedish owners SCA were trying to flog it before it opened. At the same time UK Paper ( also Finnish owned ) with mills just down the road in Sittinbourne was closing down due to the high cost of operations and difficult raw material supply.
Aylesford relied on recycled Paper and when it closed it caused big problems for surrounding Councils as they had no customer for their Paper collections. :roll: Ken
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I think the plot of land between Tesco and the Kingfisher Estate is up for industrial development (B1,B2.B8).

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Netherton 1842.

RC Chapel in the upper panel would be St Benet's with the Village Green nearby.

Moss Side Bridge on the left side of the third panel would be {Cookson's Bridge.} change that to the Holy Ghost Bridge.

Harrison's Lane would be Glover's Lane, with the Marian Square shops just above the NE of netherton.

Lots of ponds in the area.

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Ah, Netherton Green,
We moved to our newly built dream house on Netherton Green in 1974.
Unfortunately only there 1 year as we moved South to Bucks in 1975 .
We still have friends on the Green and always visit or stay there if we’re up. :wink: Ken
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Liverpool Greyhounds Stadiums.

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Stanley Stadium

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Dan. Fascinating photos. As an industrial chemist and engineering consultant, I often analysed samples of oil, water metals and wastes from factories, including the Shotton steelworks and paper mill. My Da spent his life as a Rigger on the docks but one of his passions was to visit Chester races or the dog tracks shown; on his return home, his face immediately told us if it had been a good night or not! Walshy.
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Dan wrote:Liverpool Greyhounds Stadiums.

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Did you know that at Seaforth greyhound stadium it holds a record that will never ever be matched and that was in every race the traps of 1and 6 was the results in every race
HENRY BORN FLORIDA STREET OFF STRAND ROAD
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That would have been like buying money, Henry.

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1966 Speke Airport

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1987 Bryant & May

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Lever Brothers Port Sunlight

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Stork Margarine Works Bromborough

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From the Disability News Service February 7 2019.

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It looks like we still have the Death Penalty in place, for the lower classes.

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