Walton-on-the-Hill Liverpool, January 1967

[@TerryMurrayTalks]

Excellent photographs, brought back very early memory when I was a 16-year-old trainee technician apprentice with the GPO. I was with the crew that were diverting the underground cables in preparation for the flyover. The work to place at the corner of the church.

[@jamesgardner8375]

Sad to hear the baths are no longer there. I learned to swim in those baths!

[@jamesgardner8375]

Part of my stamping ground. Spotted my high school (Alsop) on Queens Dr. And I remember biking up that hill!

[@davekelly5503]

Great photos. I to went to Also in the 70s . Great school. Left without a qualification to my name mind. Sad to hear the old Victorian baths are no longer there. Spent many a hour there.👍

[@CAVERN1234]

I was 8 years old in 67 and can still remember every single shop like it was yesterday, it's now 2016 and I wish I could go back to 1967 for ever.

[@alanwillis6030]

Fantastic, looks like Mr colclough(.?) in the rice Lane playground shot I was there 50 to 57 Alan Willis

[@daverogers3566]

Yes, that is Mr Colclough with the white hair. A real character!

[@phlize]

Ah, the Herbal Sas shop at 1.21 .... happy memories. Great for hanging out after school.

[@jefflloyd9319]

About 1956 we used to go to Queens drive Baths and after a swim spend our bus fare on a stodgy sort of bread and fruit cake in that boarded up shop Lyons and walk home past Walton Hospital Nurses Home and then onto the Swings on Rice Lane Rec.

[@janecatlow7027]

I just LOVE Liverpool, after all, I've lived there for nine and a half, almost ten years......Hopefully, I shall be going back there in a few weeks' time.

[@sandrapritchard6035]

Walton was a better place to live back then. We (mates) used to come out of the baths and go to the HERB Stores in Rice lane, opp the Walton Town Hall, and either get a PINT of SASSPERELLA or an "ICED DRINK" a pint of cordial with a huge scoop of iced creme, if you had the pint of SASS you'd walk home all bloated, thinking to yourself "how do these fella's spend all night in the pub feeling bloated like this" heh heh we were only 12-13years old. Looks like the Corpy had compulsory purchased all the buildings there to build the flyover, It was built by "LEN FERCLOUGHS" but not the Coronation Street actor. There were 5 roads going into that junction of Queens Drive /Rice Lane /Smithy Lane a bugger to cross on foot. Croppers Garage with generations of the CROPPER FAMILY serving petrol at the pumps., and 3 bloody good pubs demolished + our TOWN HALL?? Corpy got a lot to answer for ,

[@scroggg]

@ 0:35 that's where flyover is now... I remember all the work going on was at school at St Marys on Elton Street

[@doktoruzo]

Fabulous photos. Very valuable in a historic sense. It is just random everyday images like these that are so fascinating. I notice there are 2 'thumbs down'..!! Why would anyone do that? Bizarre.

[@daverogers3566]

Yes, strange those two downvotes. I mean, why? Oh well.

[@boocat8768]

@@daverogers3566 May I ask , are you the guy who had a photographic shop opposite Walton church , if not do you remember the name , thankyou.

[@daverogers3566]

@@boocat8768 No, that wasn't me. There was a photographic shop on the main road, and also one in the road opposite the church, by Croppers garage, called F.E.Jones

[@boocat8768]

@@daverogers3566 Ah ok Dave I was going to say you see , that's where I got my children's first official studio pictures done and it was to say thanks and that I still look at them now and then in my photo album (Remember those)haha . But yes you jogged my memory , it was F.E Jones next to Mikes butcher shop i think . Thanks for getting back , appreciate that , boo cat .

[@robertparle6815]

Brilliant

[@maryarends3969]

Hi Dave brilliant photos that bring back so many happy memories of living there most in the houses on the hill in the pics can you remember a pub on the corner of peveril street And breeze hill there and what was the name of it Mary

[@daverogers3566]

I remember the pub but not it's name.

[@maranathapaul]

About 1964, it wasn`t unusual to find myself and a few other classmates from Alsops, venturing into the Walton train sheds, during dinner time. I climbed the iron ladder to the top of the water tower on one occasion, just to see what was at the top, but, on looking back down, I wished I hadn`t. I don`t like heights.

[@boocat8768]

Walton church has outlived it all on that road .

[@maranathapaul]

@@boocat8768 Yes, before most of it all as well. I remember my grandma telling me, that as a young girl, what she remembered most about the view from Walton church, (looking towards Fazakerley) were all the fields and farm houses.

[@boocat8768]

@@maranathapaul I live on Church rd west for 30 odd years and I remember at the time being happy moving in , an elderly neighbour said "well your not a villager , but your welcome " . That lovely lady has long since passed on but I've never forgot her words . It still did remind me of a village in some places but I would have loved to have seen it back then .

[@maranathapaul]

@@boocat8768 I know the area that you refer to, especially Walton Village. The only good thing about Alsop High School, was the fact that we had the biggest `playground` of them all, because a lot of the `village` and the whole of Walton Hall Park, was ``within bounds``. My family home was in Fazakerley, from the early 1950`s onwards. I well remember that we once went to Kirkby church, for a picnic, everything beyond the Copplehouse Pub, was farmland intertwined with brooks, and then along came the city `planners` of the 1960`s, and they eventually did more damage to the city of Liverpool and to the surrounding countryside, than the German bombers of the blitz.

[@boocat8768]

@@maranathapaul Yes Paul totally agree , my former home as a child was Dovecot . PageMoss was already built but the area of Cantril/Knowsley , was not . We were so lucky to have had eight years of playing in open woods and lakes on that side and woods going up past PageMoss called Bluebell woods . Great memories , never a dull day , go out at breakfast come back at tea starving . Then along came the planners and goodbye farmland and woods , all gone by 1970 I think . Summer days we're great , walking all day and not feeling the miles cos it was great outdoors .

[@jayhoughton4174]

lovely looking at all these old pictures of my childhood, @dave rogers, do you have a file of these somewhere for people to view?

[@daverogers3566]

There are some more Walton photos on my Flickr page ... www.flickr.com/photos/waltononthehill/page2

[@CAVERN1234]

The piggy park

[@CAVERN1234]

The brown cow

[@michaelgaskell7408]

Me Ma and Da used to sometimes go to the Brown Cow! From the outside it looked attractive.This modern world has caused untold destruction to the natural world,and the 'local' environment.That ugly monstrosity of a flyover should be blown up tomorrow,and if you're looking for the fella to do it, 'I'm yer man'.I can only hope that one day the human race will get what's coming to it,after we've tested God's patience to the limit,ie,Armageddon.I can't wait.