A Nostalgic Trip Back To Kirkdale.

Tell me about the good ol' days.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Great picture of the Rec @ 0:24 can clearly see my old Primary School in the distance Fonthill Road Primary School ;) Does anyone else remember the grounds behind the Old Sessions Pub where we would play as kids in the 70,s ?

[@Daledenton-do5ty]

The robberly house we called it in the late 90s -2000 when played there

[@markpike8551]

Many of these pictures hold memories for me. Miss the old kirkdale. 👍

[@ladyanfield5682]

My mum grew up in Kirkdale she went to daisy street and then to Lambeth road and then she worked in tillotsons I was born in easby road… Great video

[@tonywhite4218]

My brother Eddie was always going to ozzy wades, we lived in chirkdale street z..great pic’s and memories

[@MrIanmmackay]

Terribly sad that so many of those wonderful buildings have been demolished, I'd loved to have been able to see what it was like where my Mum grew up - She lived in Wyatt Street until the May Blitz...

[@jackietaylor3896]

Listen, when you were a kid it didn't matter where you lived in liverpool, we had loving parents and life always seemed great, I was born in kirkdale and we moved to Everton in the mid 70's, we had a bathroom and back garden and 2 toilets! Having had a tin bath and outside toilet in a 2 up 2 down we thought we'd moved to a palace! Great times great memories and glad I was that age in the year it was....better days ....💖

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

I was born in kirkdales suffield road to profoundly deaf parents 1950 that background is paying me dividends humour wise as a well global traveled geezer vlogging my days away. i went to westminster road school & lambeth road but dad won the pools & we hit the road to southport, living here thailand these days.

[@paulburns1333]

There's a song called Better Days by the Jayhawks Jackie, would have been perfect for this, look it up its on KZbin.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

"we had loving parents and life always seemed great" Jackie it was never gonna be a simple as that ! I did have loving parents , but lived alongside many kids who did not sadly ;( Some of those kids are now Good friends of mine today and their parents have long since gone!!

[@andymeighan8160]

Brilliant post

[@beverleynesbitt5406]

We left Kirkdale to live in a new place called Kirkby we were made up,as we would have our own bedroom and a inside toilet,such luxury! Talk about “out of the pan,into the fire”.

[@tonywilliams9404]

Bring back so many memories them pictures Greg. How you keep producing them must take a lot of searching.

[@petermcardle2031]

Brilliant photos,thanks for posting👍

[@bigbernie7260]

I was born in Argos Road in 19 61 the Commodore picture house was at the bottom of our road across Stanley Road.

[@mariamuschajew2761]

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful buildings. They don't build like that anymore.

[@tinkerscussmusic]

Your picture 'Kirkdale Homes' 14 seconds in is actually the workhouse!! Not what what they would have called home! I was born in Smith Street Kirkdale in 1958 and have many a fond memories of playing in the old bombed houses as a young child. Such fun!!

[@robertdraper5782]

We used to think it was just a big old peoples home but I used to work with a psychiatric nurse who worked there for a couple of years until it closed. He told me that many of the male patients were men who had lost it during during the two world wars and just got quietly hidden away.

[@scousemouse9715]

I use to play on the Rec. Grandfather was a Sergeant at Westminster road. Great memories. Thank you for posting.

[@mmcc8022]

I lived by the rec

[@mmcc8022]

Ya grandfather wasn’t turner or draper was he

[@joebloggs1574]

I grew up in Garnett Avenue right alongside the Rec. My best mates Millo and Dibs lived on Brock Street. Went to school at St John’s. Had other friends living in Brockmoor Tower, and believe it or not I sat next to a woman on a flight to Turkey a few years back, we got chatting, and she was the 1st baby born in Brockmoor Tower back in 1962. I now have a really good friend (married my best mates sister) who lived in Bradewell Close, right opposite Westminister Road Police Station. It’s a small world!

[@andrewmerner7928]

Daisy st with the swimming pool underground

[@SuperWildcat66]

thank you so much for posting this…my old school (Daisy St) is on there…never saw a photo, and brought back great times.

[@ruthhannah8457]

My husband and his brother went to Daisy street in late 50's.....have such happy memories. Didnt learn much though !!

[@Scouseviking1990]

Makes me sad this I grew up in kirkdale and it’s not the same place now

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

Hi i grew up suffield road went to westminster road school then lambeth school my name john lloyd dad won the pools thus we moved to southport but here i am at 74 years young living thailand & you ? cheers mucker 😉

[@JohnJackson-px5vv]

@@hookywookywithmalarkyman704 Hi mate, I moved over to North Wales 45 years ago, Now 77 and still a kid…I go over to Liverpool once a month the place is changing for the better, some great bars in Charlotte st. Do you remember Harold Clark exBuildings Fonthill rd and Lambeth rd school goalie, sadly passed last year.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

The Kendal Pub on the junction of Fountains Road and Westminster Road was home to a Kid called Ian Henderson , who went to my Secondary School Lambeth Road during the 70,s My home at that time of the picture is in the distance, North Dingle ;)

[@robertcook2532]

Some great pics takes me back to some great times

[@fisherpeter695]

Back in 1967 I worked in Liverpool city Centre and needed urgent dental treatment. My sister who worked in Great Homer Street got me an appointment at a Dental surgery in Great Mersey Street, at 3.01, and due to having an extraction, and being under 18 came along with me. The imposing house used as the surgery was massive inside. And must have been owned by well healed people before conversion. The Dentists were Irish and named Loomes and Davey, and were keen Evertonians, if any older residents may recall them. These properties that were also once familiar around Scotland Road and Great Homer Street, would still be standing if they had been located in London.

[@michaelgaskell7408]

Mr Fisher, That's because we've had short-sighted philistines running Litterpool for the last 70yrs.

[@Jungleloyalscouse]

dave you brought back some memories there Flemings,The Commodore,Blair Hall. Kirkdale Vale even Rock View has since gone,Frost's,Everton Valley.Cheers

[@tomfreeman650]

learnt to swim in wessy road baths !

[@markscountlessbarks]

Thanks for posting. My Grandfather grew up there I just found out.

[@pauldunn8183]

Great pics ozzy Wades 😂

[@JohnJackson-px5vv]

I was born in the Billogs in 1946,, only it was just known as the Buildings then... I also remember playing in the bombed houses, my mate stood on a piece of wood which had a big nail in it ,,,ouch,,,,, that was during the demolition of the Synagogue in Fountains Rd.... Some kids of today have never climbed a tree, but there you go

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

I remember the billogs i lived suffield road opposit the rec john lloyd .

[@stephenleek3097]

Stanly hospital,carved in stone “I was sick and ye visited me”

[@saherelgendy3875]

thanx man for this great pics

[@tommerner2409]

We lived in Chelmsford street. We went to daisy street then Lambeth rd 72-78

[@robbiematthews743]

I lived in 40 Chelmsford street Robbie Matthews

[@BlindLemonMeringue]

thankyou, really enjoyed that.

[@whp61]

Nice video, great music.

[@davidrobinson4118]

I've been watching a few of these videos of old Liverpool lately. One of the things that has struck me is that, despite the obvious deprivation at certain times, how relatively clean and free from litter the streets were. I've just got the number 19 bus home from the city centre and I made a point of looking at the pavements and shrubs visible from the bus as we went along. I'm sorry to say it but this city is a s***hole.

[@robertbaxter9170]

My Grandmother Margret Hamill (nee Ennis: Broad meadows: Swords. Jug Lane. (Near Ennis Rd.) County Dublin. Married to Frank Hamill. Falls Rd. Belfast. Had cousin in 'Z Cars' TV Series1960's. J G Devlin.) lived in The Regency house in the centre till the late 1960's, with my Aunty, Uncle and Cousins. Until they moved to Northwood, Kirkby in the 60's I was born to the right of the photo, in the Tenements at 45 Smith Street, leading to Great Homer Street, in January 1951 and move to a new house in Garth Road, Southdene Kirkby. in 1954. Stan Boardman, the Liverpool Comedian was born in one of the road on the left down Foley Street shown before Everton Valley and Kirkdale Road at the end. Stan was on the knee of his older sister during World War 2 in a Bomb Shelter in Whittle Street, between Whittle Street and Kirkdale Road. There was a 'Direct Hit' and Stan's Sister and older Brother was Killed - Stan Survived. Most of the houses were gone by the 60's and replaced with 'Prefabs'. I hated the old house in the center of the photo as it was said to be haunted, the Governor of Old Kirkdale Prison, where many people where hanged lived there once upon a time. And there was a knocking on the main bedroom door at 5:00a.m. in the morning. What I personally saw and experienced there I would not wish to say. The 'Dolls Hospital' was on Kirkdale Road, to the right at the end of Foley Street. The Garrick Theater, which became a Cinema was on the near side of the road - Westminster Road to the Left. There were shops, in front of which the two boys in road, with shoes and socks, are standing. The child over the road near to the post Box has no shoes and socks. The Pits football Business now covers the site.

[@Jungleloyalscouse]

Just one thing dave remember,Hank Walters and The Arcadian Ladies,Hanks daughters. Pauline,Claire and Lorna Gail did they not sing this song. They always played in The Halfway House.

[@barnowljohn]

Great video, I lived in langtry Road and one side of the road was the boundry wall of the Kirky homes and we often had to clime the wall to retrieve our ball ,I Attended Wesy road school and remember that we had our sports day in the Kirky homes, lots of happy memories of my early family life, Thank you for posting this video.

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

I went to westminster rd and hated miss spence for victimising me in front of the class for deing left handed, i lived suffield rd with my deaf parents back then , kids i rememeber Frankie Mcintosh .. jimmy long and a lovely downes syndrom boy but cat remember his name perhaps ian ? my name John lloyd.

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

Yep the kirky homes had an air raid shelter we used to explore i lived suffield road till me dad won the pools we sold up & moved to southport, but now retired here thailand 22 years now, cheers mucker 😉john lloyd.

[@spudhead1161]

1:39 was the fire station and plod shop was up the street next to it.

[@stuartgibbons7888]

Born in Melrose Avenue in 1964. Unfortunately never seen a photo of it. Westminster Road school for a while then Mam moved us to Seacombe for an indoor loo. 🙄 If anyone has any Melrose Ave photos would love to see them. 😃

[@davesmatedave]

@stuartgibbons7888, are you on facebook? if you're not, send me your email address, and I'll send you some pics.

[@stuartgibbons7888]

@@davesmatedave [e-mail] Best regards.

[@tonywhite4218]

All our yesterday

[@joeainyyttscough3219]

I played in most of them old buildings when they were bomb dies me and curro. they really were the good old days.

[@robertdraper5782]

I see English Martyrs is just visible at 0.31 in the vid

[@llewellynwilliams1956]

went there a got a pair of fleming jean

[@donnycross]

Never seen this part of Liverpool!

[@michaelgaskell7408]

Used to live in Arundel St,(off Walton Road,)the place has gone right down hill.(Walton that is,not Arundel Street.)

[@rybolfc]

The Rec

[@spudhead1161]

Wow

[@JohnJackson-px5vv]

Bousefield street got demolished in the 1970s my sister lived there

[@iansmith8247]

My dad grow up in bousefield street .. think he moved out around 1964!!

[@iansmith8247]

Just sent this to me dad he lived in boastfield street if any one remembers that ..think I spelled it correctly..

[@davesmatedave]

I think it's Bousefield Street, mate.

[@iansmith8247]

Ye think your right mate..it got knocked down in the fifty’s I think ..old school scousers are the best!!

[@donnycross]

Being a South End boy, I am not familiar with Kirkdal,would it be North Liverpool

[@davesmatedave]

Yep. Next to Bootle

[@donnycross]

Bootle I know,Mother came from Bootle, family worked for Johnson'sdyers and cleaners.

[@mickc2905]

You've never heard of kirkdale being in north Liverpool!!....well its not in the Southend is it!, c'mon didn't think the Southend was that closed off. smh.

[@michaelgaskell7408]

@@mickc2905 He thinks he's a comedian Mick,but he doesn't fool me,Southend fannyboy.

[@irenedunne352]

there was nothing wrong in BOOTLE and kirkdale mums and dads worked hard to put food on the table even if it was dripping butties daddy long legs in the yard toilet parrafin lights tin bath in front of the coal fire six of us useing the same water great days so frank up your mate....

[@daverok1113]

Whats Olivia st on the Bootle side of Kirkdale looking like these days?

[@irenedunne352]

its more or less the same

[@athelstan927]

That's where my dad and family grew up.. the Kenny's..

[@stephendowdall9193]

Does anyone remember braemar street

[@heleneriksen1024]

My great grand mother lived in Braemar street Annie Jones Tommy Jones son also the Hanlons

[@stephendowdall9193]

I used to play in rifkins scrap yard as a kid great days we had nothing like everyone but it didn't matter my mother's name was Nellie dowdall does anyone remember her

[@heleneriksen1024]

I only knew family, I was a child.

[@irenedunne352]

where the mirander pub was

[@stephendowdall9193]

My mum and dad used to drink in the Miranda Nellie and Alf dowdall

[@brianlion9494]

Pity the Luftwaffe can't come back and finish the job.

[@stephenleek3097]

Stanly hospital ,carved in stone “I was sick and ye visited me”