Bimble: Garston

[@peterkilvert2712]

Sefton Palm house is magnificent. I didn't realise how big Sefton Park is. Many thanks for enlightening me. Best Wishes Pete

[@bernishepherd4611]

Love south Liverpool 💛

[@merseydave1]

An individual account by me from the early 1970s, my Dad used to drop my Mum off for work at Dovedale Towers (a top class function suite, now a pup). After dropping off Mum, in the summer evenings he would take me to Sefton park ... I remember going into The Palm House with him and the attendant talking to my Dad. The place (then) had an old central heating system so the heat was noticeable, the hole place was full/thick of exotic growth everywhere along with exotic birds. As the attendant was soon to lock up, and me and Dad were the only one's in there, he let us go up to the upper circular balcony, that vision of being within that wonderful tall exotic growth, heat, scent and birds all around us is indelible. In the early 1980s it went into an extreme decalin, smashed windows, central heating broken plantation dead birds taken away. From the mid 1990s, the start of a come back began ... the building is fine but not much plantation and no birds ... I recognize the positive comeback of the building, yet it can not be what it was in its hey day!.

[@robt2778]

Garston docks also once had a monopoly on the important of bananas in to the UK, one of the quays at the dock was still being called the banana quay decades after the monopoly ended. The bananas were picked unripe, but ripened while being shipped, unfortunately the eggs laid by tarantula spiders also hatched during the voyage, and Garston was renowned for having an unusually high number of tarantula related injuries for a village in northern England ( few were actually fatal and Liverpool did have the world's first hospital of tropical medicine).

[@kevingraham3161]

Just found this video, didn't know you had been by the 'bread streets' that's were i live at the moment. I remember Boys from the blackstuff, it was filmed in Cockburn Street i think and Grafton Street were you was talking from. Great bit of info too about the docks.

[@craigruddock3824]

Great content pal.

[@LiverpoolGarden]

Hello davidkubicki2564. I was also born in 1954 and lived on Hughes street by the embankments of the railways that brought in the bananas. We moved to Speke when I was about 6 but we went into Garston every Saturday to visit.

[@savvasgamingchannel5062]

Garston where I grew up. Window Lane on the left 100 yards before Garston Industrial Estate

[@marieyenson9929]

Another excellent bimble Kieran 😊

[@BimblismUK]

Thanks for supporting me Marie :)

[@paulalanryder5397]

Bryant and May also had a factory in Speak it,s a lovely art deco building not far from the original Speak airport building Have a look

[@davidcorcoran1914]

Once again ...you nailed it with your video. They are ace mate, and the best soundtracks ...keep 'em coming, all the best.

[@petergroverd6626]

An interesting film.

[@MOUNTAINGOAT66]

Brilliant video Kieran

[@davidkubicki2564]

I was born on Grafton Street overlooking the docks and river Mersey in 1954 when the ships used come into the dock.

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Very interesting about Liverpool

[@kelliemariemarshall]

14:23 some of the finest of black cherry trees in the land were in your left! Every one loves a freebie!

[@kelliemariemarshall]

Yozzer Hughes asked eney jobs mate? I can doo that! Another cracking bimble!

[@QWERTYneworder]

great video! you need to visit the abandoed Otterspool train station. its down the path at 12.20 in the video just before the rail bridge on the right.

[@BimblismUK]

Great info :)

[@QWERTYneworder]

@@BimblismUK there is a unadopted road called otterspool road that takes you down there but I'm not sure if access is allowed the area is abandoned but you can see it through the fence in otterspool park which is open to the public. keep up the good work you've motivated me to get back out on my bike

[@dan_the_trainspotter8253]

As a person who drives right down beside Garston industrial estate, I can confirm that they are demolishing that building.

[@97pws]

Hi Kieran , Really enjoyed the Garston bimble, is it Southport next, my home town, I saw the post on Instagram a few weeks ago.

[@savvasgamingchannel5062]

Sefton park is one of the decent parks in Liverpool

[@marksavage1108]

The artwork has now been demolished. the entire area has now been cleared for upcoming developments. Under the bridge at Garston is way overdue some investment. I was born there, Byrom Street, no longer there (so a mudmen) and its sadly been neglected for decades.

[@BimblismUK]

Sad but needed. Glad I documented it. :)

[@arthurmartin804]

What, no churches?