Images of the UK yesteryear

[Edward G]

Julian, Freddy and Rowdon,
Thanks for the links - great sites!

[golightly]

To compliment Freddy's picture of the Anglican cathedral I thought I would show the other end of Hope Street and the under construction Catholic cathedral in 1965 just two years before it was completed and a now shot to show the finished article.

[Steve Crook]

To compliment Freddy's picture of the Anglican cathedral I thought I would show the other end of Hope Street and the under construction Catholic cathedral in 1965 just two years before it was completed and a now shot to show the finished article.

I always liked how the Catholic & Anglican cathedrals in Liverpool are joined by Hope Street. Given the problems between them over the centuries, there's always hope

Steve

[jimw1]

Emmeline Pankhurst and fellow protestors attempt to obstruct a tram in Manchester’s Heaton Park, c.1908.
The term ‘suffragette’ was first applied to members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, which was founded in the Pankhurst’s Chorlton-on-Medlock family home. The house is now a museum dedicated to suffragette history.

[golightly]

Terrific picture Jim never seen it before, really captures all the tensions of the struggle and those heroic women.

[Freddy]

To compliment Freddy's picture of the Anglican cathedral I thought I would show the other end of Hope Street and the under construction Catholic cathedral in 1965 just two years before it was completed and a now shot to show the finished article.

nice one g.

A rather sooty Philharmonic pub on the left and on the right nearest to the photographer is the Philharmonic Hall which now has a film screen emerge from the stage.

Is that a police/fire call box just outside the pub by the red sports job?

[Freddy]

World War 2, American Mustangs on Allerton Road, Liverpool. The building on the left is The Classic Allerton where I saw amongst others The Heroes of Telemark. The cinema had a tiled mosaic floor with a raised fishpond.
These planes would have been unloaded at the docks or if in mid stream craned onto a converted Liverpool Ferry. They are either heading for Speke Airport or the American air base at Burtonwood.

Image taken from the excellent

http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...-photos-2.html

[Freddy]

The Workers of yesteryear.



A horse sweeper in 1903

Road sweepers in 1916



A tram plus crew plus a policeman.





Notice in the tram photo those in authority, the inspectors and the policeman all have a moustache, wonder if this was anything to do with WW1 that up to 1916 young officers were encouraged to grow moustaches to make them look older and more authoritive.

[Freddy]

Found another photo where the the doorway can be seen. This is Elliot Street, Parker Street and Clayton Square

[Freddy]

This site has 394 photos of old Liverpool. It really is a gem.

Photographs Of Old Liverpool UK

[CaptainWaggett]

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Notice in the tram photo those in authority, the inspectors and the policeman all have a moustache, wonder if this was anything to do with WW1 that up to 1916 young officers were encouraged to grow moustaches to make them look older and more authoritive.

I don't think it was particularly WW1 thing. In stuff like Mitchell and Kenyon films or DW Griffith shorts, more or less every chap over the age of 17 has a 'tache.

[golightly]

Another picture of Mustang fighters, this time trundling down Upper Parliament Street.

[Freddy]

This shop was at 40 Penny Lane, Liverpool, (some houses had their fronts converted to a shop) though given the news it could be anywhere.

[Freddy]

This was taken in 1901, the year of Queen Victoria's death

[golightly]

Apologies for the watermarks on these pictures they're from RIBA the architects society, great archive, all watermarked unfortunately. First picture is London but don't know the location, second is Albury Street, Lewisham, London, both 1930s.

[golightly]

Love these pictures of old cinemas. The first is the Kinema West ham Lane, London 1939, and the much posher art deco Odeon Tavistock hill 1937, bedecked with bunting for the Coronation of George VI, sadly now a supermarket.

[faginsgirl]

This shop was at 40 Penny Lane, Liverpool, (some houses had their fronts converted to a shop) though given the news it could be anywhere.

That`s a great find Freddy

[faginsgirl]

Bucks Row, Whitechapel. I presume this is around the 1960`s.

[faginsgirl]

Trust Faginsgirl to bring a bit of Victorian misery to the thread

[Steve Crook]

Trust Faginsgirl to bring a bit of Victorian misery to the thread

That's how it was for most people in yesteryear - live poor and die young

Steve