Brownlow Hill, Liverpool.

A look at Brownlow Hill in Liverpool. The buildings which are there now and a history of some they replaced. Such as, Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral sits on the site of one of the countries largest Workhouses.

[@atmakali9599]

Imagine if our forefathers hadn’t built such beautiful buildings and we lived in a city with architecture only from 1960s onwards. I had a walk down edge lane a few days ago. What a horrible experience.

[@Jeff1photo]

That delght is for future generations, when everything is made of reflective glass and everything looks like everything else.

[@uingaeoc3905]

You mean like Birmingham?

[@robertdraper5782]

The Littlewoods Building even though it's damaged is an Art Deco masterpiece, the new retail park looks OK and the fancy entrance to the business park is fine. I'd like to see the skate park reinstated and it's a pity the Paraffin Oil Shop and the Glass House pubs have gone. The big Yellow Storage place is iffy but otherwise it's still a nice walk into town and better than Wavetree Road.

[@blueheart1946]

Edge lane...cleared for traffic flow.... disheartening.

[@beboploo]

i went not long ago felt out of place

[@dufushead]

I'm one of those who don't reconise it, except Myrtle Gdns ain't been up there in over 40 years but back in the mid 1970's I regularly commuted up Brownlow Hill early in the morning. I can still remember to thia day passing a really old lady dressed in the most authentic version of the 19th Century workhouse attire I have ever seen. I turned and she'd gone. Dead spooky.

[@ShaunPeterKelly]

I was born in Liverpool, 1938. After my National Service in the army I came back from Malaya and became a Taxi driver for a while, then went to live in Yorkshire. This video has opened my eyes, it's no wonder why students and visitors from around the world speak highly about this great place of learning and entertainment.

[@SuperRobertballard]

Fascinating video. I just discovered about one year ago, that my dad was born in the workhouse infirmary on Brownlow Hill in 1922. He was born 'out of wedlock' as it was then known after his mother's husband deserted the family and she had to take in a lodger, who became my grandfather. This was all discovered after my sister took a DNA test with Ancestry and the whole story came out. You don't realise the stories that lie behind families and video's like this bring to life the roads and buildings, but it's people's lives of many years ago which are the true story. Thank you.

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks very much for sharing 👍

[@mikeymc3094]

I remember the old workhouse Derelict an scary as hell to us kids It finally cane down in the 70’s Where he goes up the stairs oh the church an looks down at the patch of grass was where the last remnants of the workhouse stood

[@SAVOURYONE]

Thank you for your commentary. There's a lot research you've collected. Well done Look forward to the next one. I'm glad the Victoria building is grade 2. And that I love red brick .it's quite special. . Maybe the cathedral should gave a bit of colour. I was born in June 1957 too. I love the trams .Wish we could have them again Especiallu in London where I am

[@DonaldTrumpton]

A very interesting video Jeff, you are quite right about the city changing, I would never recognise Brownlow hill now. It must be 10 or 12 years since I was last in the city.

[@scouseaussie1638]

Thanks Jeff I appreciate your time and effort making this video 👍

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks very much 👍

[@78a67h]

Amazing video and commentary. I spent time in the city in the 70s and much of what you show is new to me, like the new buildings on the left near the top of the road. I do remember though that a little further up from Brownlow Hill there was a site called "Falker Adventure Playground", though I had never found what it actually was. At the bottom of BH and not very far from the Adelphi Hotel there was a strip club which worked lunch-hours, where many businessmen and other office workers in their suits would flock during their lunch-break. As I recall the shows were well worth watching. I don't at all remember Blackwell's bookshop, as in my experience most educational books were sought at a place called Philip Nephew & Son I believe down Tithebarn Street in the city centre. Finally in my day what is now called John Moore Uni was Liverpool Polytechnic with its main building situated on Byrom Street and other faculty buildings scattered around the centre.

[@Jeff1photo]

I remember Philip Nephew and Son, or Philip Son and Nephew, which ever way round it was. Thanks for the info 👍

[@78a67h]

@@Jeff1photo And I think you do a great service sir, taking us back, explaining how things were and how they have changed over the years. Watching your videos I often wish I could turn the clock back and relive those days.

[@seanmarston1730]

The Cinema opened as Studios 1 2 and 3, there was also a short lived restaurant called the Fastet below which closed soon after it opened after the Fastnet lighthouse yachting disaster in 1979 in which 19 people lost their lives

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks for the info. I couldn't remember either of those names, but I do remember the fastnet disaster.

[@seanmarston1730]

@@Jeff1photo My dad was from Cape Clear island often seen on Fastnet photos being 3 miles from it so we knew it as kids and went around it visiting, we were kind of proud when the restaurant was opened knowing it. There is a memorial on the island to the lost

[@robertdraper5782]

This has sparked some real, nostalgia for me. The Studio 1 2 3 did a nice mix of mainstream, art house and foreign films, I saw plenty of films there on the big screen although I think my TV in my lounge is actually bigger but you'd usually only these off kilter films late night on BBC2 or Channel 4. They also did great double bills like the Clash documentary Rude Boy and Derek Jarman's Jubilee, John Carpenters Dark Star and George Lucas's THX 1138, Werner Hertzog's Fitzcaraldo and Nosferatu or the wired combination of David Lynch's Eraserhead and Schlondorff's adaptation of Gunter Grass's Tin Drum. To be fair I also saw The Exorcist with The Evil Dead and Kentucky Fried Movie with the Blues Brothers but it was a decent little cinema I miss it although the Picture House at FACT has picked up the slack. I saw the world premier of Michael Jacksons Thriller by chance on a big screen in the Hofbruahaus / Bier Keller in 83 when they booked local bands. A couple of years later I was stabbed by some random angry drunk just outside as I walked past on my way home from Planet X, this lead to a night at A&E in the Royal being stitched up by an utter cutie I'd known from my School days who then became my girlfriend for a couple of years, an interesting scar on my hip and a mention in the Echo.

[@cremyll1]

I'm sure there was a wimpy cafe there on brownlow hill just back from the care hire place..late 60's

[@Jeff1photo]

There was a wimpy as you crossed the road to Lewis's.

[@PaulWady]

The front of the car park where you see the tall column with the sign on the top was not originally there. In fact it had a ramp situated there that led up to the car park. It was something like forty-five degrees and my Fathers car charged up it and beneath a rectangular bar/club situated high up the building, facing out. That appeared to be a line of big windows, with white concrete around it. I was reliably informed in 1981 that this was a club that Hawkwind once played a gig at.

[@seanmarston1730]

I seen Hawkwind in the Stadium in 1976

[@PaulWady]

@@seanmarston1730 Apparently, according to the limited edition book printed about Erics Club which I have a copy of, Lou Reed played the Stadium in those days as a solo artist. Imagine him tackling Kendo Nagasaki and Giant Haystack? Nothing down for them.

[@goodasgold7167]

Thank you very much for all of your videos Jeff. The beer keller across the road from the Adelphi was called the Hofbrauhaus. I met my future wife there on a work night out in 1978. I also have fond memories of live concerts at the Mountford Hall circa 1975, including Renaissance and Caravan possibly on the same double bill. I’m also a 1957 baby, and, although I never went to your old school Gateacre Comp, my younger brother and sister went there. Inspired by one of your other videos, next time my brother and I are back visiting Liverpool (from opposite ends of the UK) it would be nice to walk around Woolton and Gateacre and share memories with each other. Keep up the good work sir!

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks very much, and yes, I remember the Hofbrauhaus name now you've jogged my memory. Good taste in music too!

[@gailsplace7581]

Another great Video Jeff. I went to school just across the road from Liverpool Uni. We saw the Cathedral in the latter stages of completion. We also watched the building of the then New Hospital. That was back in the 1960 s. I can remember many of the old shops. Sadly all gone now, but still have the memories.

[@Jeff1photo]

I remember the Cathedral being built, and the shops too. Yes all good memories, time moves on.

[@seanmarston1730]

The last of the workhouse buildings were only demolished around 15 years or so ago, they were the Archdiocese head offices on the corner of Brownlow hill corner were it meets back up with Mt pleasant just facing mountford hall across from the Victoria tower, I have a photo showing them also

[@micbarker6256]

Where to start? The workhouse where my great grandmother was resident in the 1901 census, the tram to Page Moss where I lived as a kid, the Victoria building where I had a bunch of exams, Blackwell's... which has moved, Time Tunnel at Mountford Hall, the 051 club. Bazooka Chicken's still going :-) The Chemistry department at the top of Brownlow Hill where I studied, the stunning colours in the Cathedral on a sunny day. It's been 15 years since I was last in that part of town - 2008 Capital of Culture year. Happy days.

[@fromthefountofyouth]

The tan building is the University of Liverpool International College, a preparatory school for university admission be it undergraduate or postgraduate.

[@fredfredericks3496]

Hello mate. I'm a scouse enthusiast from Ireland, I love your calm and relaxing videos. Brookside Close and surrounding area would be good! I've been to Liverpool many times, but mostly in town, your vids are really inspiring me to explore the suburbs of Liverpool.

[@Jeff1photo]

I saw that Brookside is coming back to TV.

[@fredfredericks3496]

@@Jeff1photo Yes, reruns

[@Jeff1photo]

Ah right, streaming the old series. Yep I'll film it, added to the list.

[@user-hm6hy1oq2z]

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[@gazriley624]

The 051 and the Multi story car park are Eye sores

[@Jeff1photo]

They sure are. Fire damage at the 051

[@telboyynwa699]

17:13 These three buildings stand on the site of my former old school, Paddington Comprehensive. I was there from 1968 (when the school newly opened) to 1975.

[@Jeff1photo]

Oh that's right, the school was there. Passed it a million times and forgot all about it.

[@uingaeoc3905]

I always felt that the Adelphi was intended to be bigger at the back with longer wings.

[@seanmarston1730]

Jeff at the bottom of the hill just up from Blake's at the adelphi you can see a wall clock, I have a photo showing the clock said Parry's Books and summized it was the Parry's that moved up to the university later years possibly. I have many photos of old Brownlow hill stored also a list of the many pubs that once lined it

[@Jeff1photo]

Now you mention Parrys I remember the name. Perhaps there was a name change at some time which I've forgotten about.

[@NormanLong]

No tram Lines in the old picture, that would give you some indication of year, those trams coming down Brownlow hill was quite scary coming around the bend by Pearsons Butchers on Smithdown Lane, they bounced and shook something terrible and the screeching of breaks, That photo seems to be after the road was resurfaced , Would that be 1953-55?

[@colinbrooks6290]

Wow, I was born and raised on Brownlow hill and very much recognises what’s left of it…. sad to understand our people are being replaced by students…. City planners following the same path of unbalance …. Incorrect thinking and planning there after… what about our people!

[@Jeff1photo]

They closed Brownlow Hill for a week and put deck chairs out to welcome new students last September. It's all about money.

[@strawberryfields1149]

Thanks Jeff. I remember going to soft porn films at studio 1? when I was about 13. We used to rub the ink off the echo on our top lip on the 5 bus on the way. The usherette used to stand in the front at half time with a tray of ice cream. Never had a customer. If you charge your punters £60 a lecture (YES! ) plus accommodation, you are in a very strong position, and your graduates will never have any autonomy in career and life. With regard to Paddy's Wigwam I actually never visited it, but recall crying like a baby when I watched Dalglish and the Liverpool team at the service there after Hillsborough. Peace.

[@Jeff1photo]

Studio 1. Someone said it was Studio 123. Difficult holding an ice cream I guess, you'd need 3 hands. Education or indoctrination? Power to the free thinkers. Peace ✌️

[@johnprice6641]

Don't look to close at anything in and around Liverpool it's all becoming an eyesore .

[@garymacdonald7165]

What happened to that old mans pub at the bottom of the hill ?(used to be used by Liverpool players in the early 90s)

[@free..to..air..]

When is something going to be done about that monstrosity on the corner...what guests in the Adelphi must think when they look out of their windows...God only knows...so this is Liverpool..city of architectural splendour ?....er..no...I dont think so

[@modernista6056]

We got more listed buildings per square mile than any other city bar London.....plenty to be proud of, it needs investment to utilise it all.

[@user-qy2yw5ed3d]

Shocking start to the video, it looks like Liverpool has reverted to 1950s Russia, who gave the go-ahead for those monstrosities? Criminal

[@atmakali9599]

The workhouse is a beautiful building not withstanding it’s use.

[@colinbrooks6290]

The poor house

[@Jeff1photo]

Yep, that's basically what it was.

[@gordeaux2006]

Is Brownlow Hill the same as Mount Pleasant?

[@Jeff1photo]

No Mount Pleasant is to the right in the thumbnail pic.

[@gordeaux2006]

@@Jeff1photo Thank you

[@mikeymc3094]

My Nan lived down Brownlow hill an If the ppl of the neighbourhood learned anything it was they became second class citizens in their own neighbourhood John Moores University Better known as THE MICKEY MOUSE UNI

[@mikeymc3094]

Did u kno the bell in that big clock is bigger than Big Ben in London Our claim to fame who needs the beetles

[@Jeff1photo]

No I didn't know about the bell. Thanks 👍 My Mam and her family lived on Brownlow Hill during the war years and a bit after. We're the Oxford of the North now.