Old photos of Bootle

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank's for your kind comments Paul, Lynne and Bob

[fatboyjoe90]

Jim Clark, in his Lotus, at Aintree Racecourse.

[filsgreen]

Great photo, Joe.

[Paul]

Good photo Joe

Paul

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank's for your comments Phil, and Paul.

[fatboyjoe90]

Stanley Road, Bootle, St Martin’s House under construction this photo was taken from Trinity Road 1968.

[Paul]

Good one Joe

Paul

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank's for tha Paul.

[fatboyjoe90]

Then.
The Tar works on Hawthorne Road Litherland.


Now.
Tesco Superstore, Litherland. On a frosty morning view across the Tesco car park at their Litherland Store.

[Invicta]

I remember a huge fire at the Tar Works . Ken

[Paul]

Nice photo Joe

Paul

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank's for that Paul.

[fatboyjoe90]

Littlewood Pools, at the Irlam Road depot 1949.

[Paul]

Great photo Joe, walked passed that place countless times.

Paul

[stever64]

Stanley Hospital.

Memories, i was in there a few times as a child. I lived in the Buildings in Owen Road as a child.

[stever64]

Selwyn Street Tram, letting passengers off to go to the Princess Cinema. No date.

Great photo, the Cinema was demolished a few years ago.

[stever64]

Derby Park Bootle. Can't I make a date out?

I think the lake was filled in in the mid 50s. I know a teenager boy drown there some years earlier.

[stever64]

The Commodore, Stanley Road, Kirkdale, just outside Bootle.

Remember going to Commodore every Saturday morning as a child. That was around 1963/64

[stever64]

Seaforth Sands station looking south-west in 1894. At this time the dock system had not reached Seaforth which was still an attractive area of sand dunes popular with day-trippers.



The original terminus of the overhead railway and from where the station


The Station was at ground level until the line was embanked and the road bridged in the 1880s. At the time this photograph was taken, Bridge Road (left side) was known as Marsh Lane and Seaforth Road was known as Church Road. The station became known as Seaforth & Litherland in 1905.

Brilliant phots. i worked with Merseyrail for 33 years

[BossHogg]

Then.
The Tar works on Hawthorne Road Litherland.


Now.
Tesco Superstore, Litherland. On a frosty morning view across the Tesco car park at their Litherland Store.

I've never seen this store before, the old tar works were still there when I moved to Cumbria.

[fatboyjoe90]

So now you know Tom.

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank you for all your comments, glad some of those photos brought back good memories for you. Stever.

[fatboyjoe90]

Derby park, with the pool and St Monica’s Church in the background 1936.

[fatboyjoe90]

This photo is looking into Peter Mahon Way, the little bit of the green grass was where our house used to stand on Irlam Road. I would say the photo was taken from one of the tall warehouses on Atlantic Road.
Do you mind me nicking this photo Ged?

[Paul]

Good ones Joe

Paul

[filsgreen]

Great photo, Joe, is that St John and St James or St Monica's in between the two blocks of flats? It's hard to tell from the pic on my phone.

[bob. b]

Great pictures Joe

Bobby

[filsgreen]

It could even be St Matthews.

[lynne99]

Lovely photo of Derby Park pool. Thanks

[fatboyjoe90]

Great photo, Joe, is that St John and St James or St Monica's in between the two blocks of flats? It's hard to tell from the pic on my phone.

I thought you were a Bootle lad, Phil.


St James Church on Chestnut Grove Bootle.

[fatboyjoe90]

Thank's for your kind Comments Phil, Paul, Bobby, and Lynne.

[john j connell]

Joe, i think Phil means the church in the distance between Chestnut House and Salisbury House which is St John and St James, great pictures by the way always look forward to seeing them. JJC.

[filsgreen]

Thanks, John. So it must be the George's roof in the back ground. I never use my laptop any more.

[fatboyjoe90]

Haya Phil and John.
When I made my first confession, and holy communion the school I attended was St James school and church? When did it change?

[fatboyjoe90]

I thought the building with the white roof was Walton Nick?

I can't see another church on that photo, mind, you I can only see out of one eye but that's another story.