These stunning photos show what growing up in 1980s Liverpool was really like

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The decade saw young people growing up with the realities of mass unemployment, economic decline, dereliction and riots
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@fimbles1015 Ай бұрын

I miss the community. As a kid we used to have a street party every year. They were always awesome.

@zibbezabba2491 Жыл бұрын

Let's not forget, part of the resurgence and interest in Liverpool came from it's vibrant music culture with bands from Liverpool dominating the charts. (Frankie, China Crisis, the Bunnymen, the Christians, the list goes on and on) Liverpool was a hard place to live in, in the 1980's but we still managed to do ourselves proud.

@Uppercut443 4 ай бұрын

Left Garston for Canada in 1984. Had nothing then. Worked the bar at The Heath (Allerton) as a young man 19-21 years old and have been fortunate to make things work here. Going to see China Crisis in Toronto this weekend, some 40 years or so after I saw them at The Empire. God that went fast.! Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

@zibbezabba2491 4 ай бұрын

@@Uppercut443 I saw them at the Philharmonic just before xmas. They still sound great.

@einsteines 2 ай бұрын

My advice on leaving school was, "get your NI number from the Careers Office in Great Crosshall Street and sign-on at your nearest dole." It took me out of civilisation and into the wrong for almost 20 years. I watched good people turn bad almost overnight. The lessons I learned about people were sometimes shocking but I wouldn't have missed those days for anything. The ingenuity of people under the cosh is a sight to behold. We would do ANYTHING just to make a buck. We had nothing but we certainly didn't take it lying down. My only regret was heroin arriving in Liverpool. The weak who sought oblivion in the needle tore apart our communities and proved Thatcher was right when she said "There is no such thing as society." The 80's in Liverpool was a free-for-all and the weakest got shit all over.

@sandymarsden6536 2 ай бұрын

The buses. Getting the 82 into town, the 61 to and from Eggy Vale. The 147 and you know you're in heaven....

@TheBundleofkent 35 минут бұрын

You could “ feel” the city dying, especially in the first half of the decade. I remember hanging around Smithdown Rd in about 1985, on a Sunday, with sweet FA to do, apart from lads winding you up that they’d just seen Ake getting off the 86…..

@merseydave1 Ай бұрын

I was born in 1965, my family lived on The Childwall Valley Estate opposite (The now gone Coronation pup) "now a Lidl" I will tell you what I do not miss ... no repairs to council estates ever growing unemployment from the late 1970s Signing on at The Bell Vale dole office, silly Youth Training - Youth Opportunities Programme "Should have been called Slave Labour Work! Going to The Bell Vale Shopping Centre for Everything ... We did have a very good buss service then (what ever happened to the 79A ???)

@TheLastSongbird124 4 ай бұрын

I left the docklands of Liverpool in 1977 to go to Australia. Best thing I ever did to be honest. But, having said that, my upbringing in the 50s is as clear in my memory as ever. As I got older so I came to appreciate that the values I was taught living in that community are the values I still hold important, they are still who I am and I will until my dying day be grateful that I grew up there. Watching the UK of 2024, I find myself looking at a country that is not the GB I grew up in, the values I took on board from my era and its people were sewn into me and looking at what the country has become, I feel sad and even angry that it has beel allowed to become the current melting pot, so full of hatred for British values it's heart breaking. On retiring 6 years ago, I unexpectedly found myself no longer with any living relatives after my son died and I did consider returning to the UK but with all that had changed and the current make up and divisions that exist, it seemed I would have been walking into some other country, one I did not like the look of. Sad really.

@Brenda-ny1gw 4 ай бұрын

Stupid questions, but can you elaborate more on those values?? Any anecdotes you can share with us?

@TheLastSongbird124 4 ай бұрын

@@Brenda-ny1gw lots and lots, far too many to put on a comment list! Have been thinking about creating my own channel re exactly what you ask for but the more I think about it the less it seems relevant to today's population to be honest.

@davidbowie2046 3 ай бұрын

Stay there mate. This country is finished, all thanks to the politicians forcing their agenda on us.

@bigmedge 3 күн бұрын

@@TheLastSongbird124you may be pleasantly surprised tho, & it’s worth a shot - after all, it doesn’t cost anything to press “record” on your phone 😉

@pauldavies8638 3 ай бұрын

I was living in Toxteth during the riots...

@windsorSJ 2 ай бұрын

I was living on the Wirral at the time, you could see from my bedroom window the redness of the fires in the sky over Toxteth.

@scottmcginn2169 2 жыл бұрын

For me their are two things that shaped LIverpool as it is now that came out the 1980's, and they bookend it... The Toxteth Riots and Hillsborough. Both showed just how little support we would ever get from outside the city, regardless of the government in place, and that we had to stand up as a city and fight to be counted. And while Toxteth was more to do with strained relations between the black community and the authorities, there weren't many in Liverpool that couldn't relate to the underlying poverty issues that existed there. Hillsborough and it's aftermath showed the attitude of the government and the media to the people of Liverpool. And while there are some outside Liverpool who talk about a victim mentality, I always say, read the reports, all written by educated people who reviewed every aspect, then tell me we aren't right to feel that.

@sandymarsden6536 2 ай бұрын

Well said mate!

@sandymarsden6536 Ай бұрын

Well said mate.

@tjnz 2 жыл бұрын

My family left Bootle in 1985, with no work left, we went to New Zealand. I have fond memories of my Bootle childhood, especially those long summer evenings.

@bobsmith3291 6 ай бұрын

Didn’t know Prince George grew up in 80s liverpool

@seangrogan3622 5 ай бұрын

Ian Rush on pitch

@yesthen2704 2 жыл бұрын

@zrexzyy 2 жыл бұрын

Hello

@moesypittounikos 15 күн бұрын

So football was the opium of the scausers😅

@Johnconno 6 ай бұрын

I hated it.

@anon5163 2 жыл бұрын

It's was also from a Tory who went to the Conservative leader with an idea to put Liverpool back on the map. So thanks to the Conservative government of the time and not a Labour in the last 50yrs Liverpool has prospered. It was also a Liberal city Council who paved the way for Liverpool to get capital of culture again not Labour. When will scousers realise having a Labour Council is no good for this great city

@adebolabloke6962 Жыл бұрын

Great point

@bikinibabes666 Жыл бұрын

Yes, to put it bluntly, Labour is a load of crap. I have voted Conservative (i.e. Tory) all my life and fully intend to go on doing so.

@knottybogeye6387 10 ай бұрын

@@bikinibabes666you really that gullible wef sunak dragged our nurses through courts, sunak tax avoided our country by £50 million, when sunak was chancellor billions of pounds of our taxes went missing no BBC, or sky news coverage, no police investigating, Tory sewage scandals, covid scandals, sunak giving oil companies new licences because he and his family are shareholders in BP, soon you will have to sell your home to be able to afford private hospital treatment, Thatcher starving British children by taking their milk, Thatcher selling our gas, electric, and gas companies, to her wealthy friends, now we live in fuel poverty, boris Johnson's illegal covid parties, British people dying alone because their families were following boris Johnson's covid rules, while Tory government were having illegal covid parties with no social distancing and no facemasks, helping to spread the virus, police lying for WEF tory party, Tory scandal after scandals, Tory catastrophic failures again and again.

@Johnconno 6 ай бұрын

@@bikinibabes666Guess the clues in your name.

@Johnconno 6 ай бұрын

😂🚑