St Andrews Gardens Liverpool

One of Liverpool's iconic buildings. Built in 1935, St. Andrews Gardens, also known locally as The Bull Ring was built to house people who had lived in Victorian housing which was due for demolishion. It is the only remaining building of its generation and now home to Liverpools flourishing student population.

[@stephensmith4480]

I am 65. I grew up in Caryl Gardens, at the Bottom of Hill Street, Opposite the Royal Southern Hospital. Our Neighbours were fantastic, everyone looked out for each other and the only reason we moved was because they were getting Knocked down. If they would have modernised them, we would never have moved from our friends and Neighbours 🙏

[@fredfredericks3496]

Nice video as always. The architecture in Liverpool is truly world class.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Slave architecture. Reparations now!

[@raymilan5307]

My ma used to frequent TJs regularly inthe 50s/60s, accompanied by me and my younger brother, I remember the bus station off Skelhorn St. was the Ribble bus station, also remember the bullring but didn't know anyone from there, also remember the ads for ' John Collier, John Collier the window to watch ' !!

[@Jeff1photo]

TJs for a school uniform. Going there meant summer holidays were near their end.

[@strawberryfields1149]

Don't forget Crosville

[@uingaeoc3905]

@@strawberryfields1149 They were at Mann Island.

[@minijms1]

I remember these buildings from the sixties, they were rough areas back then (or thought of). I moved to York in the late seventies, sad to say anything built in York now is usually student accommodation, I now live is a small village in the middle of nowhere.

[@Jeff1photo]

The style of the building made them look foreboding to strangers. Students everywhere, we seem to be breeding geniuses by the millions.

[@michaelohare2928]

I remember them too the local name was the bull ring I’m from Everton and also live in now York now

[@user-ck6lz2yb5z]

Great vid, every time I see images of the front of the Bull Ring it fills me with pride. We lived in the second flat above the archway, mam dad, Nin( grandmother) and 9 kids.

[@Jeff1photo]

Wow the queue for the bathroom in the morning 😆

[@user-ck6lz2yb5z]

It's quite strange really because I don't remember there being a problem .

[@KeyMacGamingKeyz]

My grandfather did all the ceilings in the crown 👍

[@expatexpat6531]

I remember the Hofbräukeller in one of the streets off to the right of Lime Street station.

[@PaulWady]

An old boy once said to me that every family in there, would have had you around their table if the Police were after you. I recall it as a very rough place. But that is survival for you, and I am sure everyone went onto better lives one way or another. Well, I hope.

[@chrisorourke2749]

Just down the road you have Standish Street, i was born and raised there, was an alter boy in Holy Cross church, which was demolished and now student accomodation, crazy and sad how times change. Vauxhall Gardens also had tenements, it was a great community. My Grandparents ran the pie shop, a pub by the flyover which was recently knocked down.

[@gypsyeaton]

The importance of close knit working class communities that have been destroyed in cities across the UK is a great loss.They not only provided homes but the love ,care & support that families,kids,elderly & vulnerable needed.People looked out for each other & looked after each other.

[@Jeff1photo]

That's very true. People got scattered all over Liverpool and those communities were lost forever.

[@gypsyeaton]

I've heard exactly the same thing about communities in Manchester & I sadly suspect this has been the case all over the UK x@@Jeff1photo

[@terrymoogan3773]

thanks Jeff need to do more videos mate lovely this our city thank you I lived in Scotland road very tough mate, the hollywood butler

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks, just a bit time consuming. Glad you like em👍

[@mumofthree1484]

My mum was brought up in a similar tenement block in Highfield gardens her nanny lived there with them 4 and later on her Auntie until the 70s

[@hiboyu]

Hi Jeff thank you for the video. As a foreign student who has been studying at the Liverpool Uni for 4 years, its good to know this history! ive walked past St Andrews Garden many times, especially when my gf was living nearby in St Andrew street last year. Its a bit funny to know that St Andrews Garden was once considered 'modern', because you know what, me and my gf thought it looked something like Roman Colosseum or even a prison😂 (especially with those bar steel gates)! it's a cheap students accommodation now, but its Google reviews are not good - i seen a lot of reviewers complained about it.

[@Jeff1photo]

It didn't have the gates back then, anyone could walk through. It was always a bit foreboding even then.

[@fromthefountofyouth]

Liverpool is a magnificent city and I understand why the council is loath to approve just any kind of building in the name of economic progress. I recently went through the council's Tall Building Policy and found it well thought out. There should be space for tall, modern structures but they must fit in with existing architectural heritage for that's what gives the city its character. Indiscriminate building of tall structures without plan should be reserved for insecure cities without a sense-of-self who need such to feel important and to feel they have come into their own, not Liverpool.

[@Jeff1photo]

I like the new builds mixed with the old if it's well thought out and heritage is taken into account. Architecture is now governed by cost, in the past it was built to make a statement of importance.

[@uingaeoc3905]

Like Manchester and Birmingham - an American tourist told me he was so disappointed by these places, just like US towns. He said he was reluctant to go to Liverpool expecting 'more of the same'. he said the place was mind blowing!

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Slave money .Reparations now

[@fromthefountofyouth]

@@uingaeoc3905 True. They lack character, Manchester especially.

[@uingaeoc3905]

I am pretty sure that Myrtle Gardens is another surviving example of this type - off Myrtle Street and actually is ordinary residential, I think two apartments knocked into one.

[@Jeff1photo]

You're right, Myrtle Gardens is still there, although it's called Minister Court. Must go and see that, thanks for the information 👍

[@ianclarke5404]

Always felt bit scared as a kid walking near the bullring..cundles motor bike shop just across the way .

[@Jeff1photo]

I remember Cundles.

[@stormytempest6521]

The LEGENDARY CUNDLES !👍

[@practice2391]

Thanks for posting, very interesting

[@jamesgardner8375]

That is quite a spectacular building - and I'd agree that it is more Deco than Modernist. I never knew it existed and it's just a pity that so many of the inner-city tenements were demolished in favour of tower blocks outside the centre. That's 'progress' for you..

[@uingaeoc3905]

It's actually Bauhaus.

[@debbieoneill6714]

The shape is to represent a bulls head, due to it being built on a former abattoir.

[@thetimetraveller6550]

Thank you for all the videos of Liverpool and the areas where the Beatles stayed what's your most favourite place to go ? In Liverpool?

[@Jeff1photo]

There's so many. I love Woolton, certain areas of the city centre and the Waterfront.

[@stormytempest6521]

Compared to some of the DOCK LAND SLUMS this was Heavan ! what , indoor toilet, proper bathroom !

[@Jeff1photo]

Very true 👍

[@jarrowmarrow]

I took a bus through here one evening. While interesting sightseeing their was a considerable amount of very drunk young guys getting on and off the bus. Kind of got an aggressive feeling from a few of them. Later a couple of drunk thugs tried to rob me of my pack when I got off the bus. They didn’t try that hard luckily they weren’t really very interested in pursuit.

[@Jeff1photo]

Is this rececenty?

[@jarrowmarrow]

No a few years ago now.

[@user-qy2yw5ed3d]

Everything fit for a student, seems the working class aren`t wanted/needed anymore.

[@Jeff1photo]

Yeah students are our biggest industry.

[@neilhyams8443]

What about the piggeries?

[@Jeff1photo]

That's a pretty big story, love to have a go at it one day.

[@jarrowmarrow]

The lesson here is whatever you do don’t graduate.

[@Jeff1photo]

Lol 😆

[@jamescodling6929]

I didn't actually live in the Bull Ring but it was my stamping ground, Sunday was Pitch & Toss Friday & Saturday night Craps all highly illegal we used to get paid for watching out for police raids

[@stormytempest6521]

YES THAT'S RIGHT. 👍

[@mikeymc3094]

“Unfit for human habitation” was the phrase used by the militant tendency who ran the council at the time

[@Jeff1photo]

I know, strange that they look OK now. 👍

[@user-xq6sj3jk5x]

Give Joe Owens a voice KZbin