I used to fix and maintain the lifts at Hurst Gardens...1984-1988. From memory, there were four lifts scattered around the blocks A,B,C and D. The blocks were owned by Liverpool City Council Housing Dept, and were demolished as part of a wide strategy to demolish most low, medium and high rise blocks which were becoming uninhabitable. Around 50 multiple occupancy blocks, situated all around the city, were demolished in the 1990's. There was a snooker hall called 'Q's' situated between Hurst Gardens and the Glass House pub, where we used to go, after work, for a pint and a game of snooker, before heading home to Roby Road in Huyton. Happy Days as a 24 year old....now retired...🙂
Thanks Jeff. Many of my presents as a kid were seconds from that factory. The slightest imperfection destined the model for the staff shop and onwards to my stocking courtesy of some distant Aunty. Never knew where the site was till now.
The industrial building was the wash house my mum took us kids every week and we played in a waiting room next to the washing area we watched as the women helped each order after drying their washing, great fun . We used to have twin kit kits a lovely threat, the pubs were the glass house , paraffin oil ( the queens) and in st oswalds Street was tge omni bus, we would get the tram for a penny to dovecote baths. Great video
The pub on the corner (now a' hotel') was The Paraffin Oil Shop (once called The Queens Arms) a real dive - that I had many a pint in (in my misspent youth).
Hi Jeff, definitely, the pub on the corner can't remember the name l remember Hurst Gardens. There was also a block of flats where Tesco is now in the Old Swan,l did work in Robinson Willy's a long time ago, was this the old Meccano site ? thanks Jeff 👍
That's a nice reminder, I had forgotten about Hurst Gardens , St Oswalds Gardens was more prominant being a shopping area, What was the tallest building in Liverpool back in the late 60's 216ft tall but now gone? I bet that's forgotton too, all in favour of the M62,
@ martinsallenger. No the meccano was on Binns Lane with a few other factorys such as Crawfords Biscuits, Robinson Willy was the other side of Rathbone Road and they made their own gas fittings for their fires, the main entrance led to an area full of lathes where thousands of parts a day was turned out, at the rear was their foundry, towards the end a lot of the female workers took out claims for compensation for crippled fingers constantly using pliers for snipping parts, Mecano was no better and workers suffered skin disorders from the lubrication oil, Plessy's too had ongoing claims but not sure what for. I must admit though, St Oswalds was still standing the last time I visited the area, If I visit Liverpool I enter via Runcorn Bridge to Hunts Cross or by train, I never venture out to the old parts to see what's new.
@@Jeff1photo You got to it from Rathbone Road via Pighue Lane pronounced Piggy Lane, Lots of terraced houses around there mixed in with factorys, back Street garages, they was mainly railway houses to start with. you also got to it from Edge Lane, that was the main entrance to plessys, Pighue lane was also a short cut to get to edge lane to miss out the traffic lights that you showed us in the video, you had to be a local to know that.
I lived in Middleton rd and me and my mates used to play on the railway embankments sliding down the victorian top water brick made drainage channel's, we also used to play in the derelict greyhound stadium which became the fruit and veg market, occasionally we would walk along the tracks to the goods yards in Wavertree, we also used to climb over the walls into Meccano's yards and help ourselves to the reject castings etc to try and put together cars/planes, or we would head the other way to Newsham Park direction and play in the scrap yard or the back of the abattoir.
I used to fix and maintain the lifts at Hurst Gardens...1984-1988. From memory, there were four lifts scattered around the blocks A,B,C and D. The blocks were owned by Liverpool City Council Housing Dept, and were demolished as part of a wide strategy to demolish most low, medium and high rise blocks which were becoming uninhabitable. Around 50 multiple occupancy blocks, situated all around the city, were demolished in the 1990's. There was a snooker hall called 'Q's' situated between Hurst Gardens and the Glass House pub, where we used to go, after work, for a pint and a game of snooker, before heading home to Roby Road in Huyton. Happy Days as a 24 year old....now retired...🙂
Thanks Jeff. Many of my presents as a kid were seconds from that factory. The slightest imperfection destined the model for the staff shop and onwards to my stocking courtesy of some distant Aunty. Never knew where the site was till now.
The industrial building was the wash house my mum took us kids every week and we played in a waiting room next to the washing area we watched as the women helped each order after drying their washing, great fun . We used to have twin kit kits a lovely threat, the pubs were the glass house , paraffin oil ( the queens) and in st oswalds Street was tge omni bus, we would get the tram for a penny to dovecote baths. Great video
Thanks for the info on the wash house 👍
The chimney was in the corporation yard
The pub on the corner (now a' hotel') was The Paraffin Oil Shop (once called The Queens Arms) a real dive - that I had many a pint in (in my misspent youth).
Were you a friend of my brother Colin?
Think the pub on the corner was called the glasshouse
The area looked more human-friendly in the photo than now. Do you know why were Hurst Gardens demolished? And, yes, I had a Meccano set in the 60s.
It was planned to extend the M62 motorway across the Mersey and a few areas got demolised to make way for it, it was scrapped in the end.
Great update as always Jeff some great historic parts round there. My word though the difference from years ago to today.
Thanks 👍
Hi Jeff, definitely, the pub on the corner can't remember the name l remember Hurst Gardens. There was also a block of flats where Tesco is now in the Old Swan,l did work in Robinson Willy's a long time ago, was this the old Meccano site ? thanks Jeff 👍
The Oil Lamp apparently.
That's a nice reminder, I had forgotten about Hurst Gardens , St Oswalds Gardens was more prominant being a shopping area, What was the tallest building in Liverpool back in the late 60's 216ft tall but now gone? I bet that's forgotton too, all in favour of the M62,
Was the pub called the omnibus
@ martinsallenger.
No the meccano was on Binns Lane with a few other factorys such as Crawfords Biscuits, Robinson Willy was the other side of Rathbone Road and they made their own gas fittings for their fires, the main entrance led to an area full of lathes where thousands of parts a day was turned out, at the rear was their foundry, towards the end a lot of the female workers took out claims for compensation for crippled fingers constantly using pliers for snipping parts, Mecano was no better and workers suffered skin disorders from the lubrication oil, Plessy's too had ongoing claims but not sure what for. I must admit though, St Oswalds was still standing the last time I visited the area, If I visit Liverpool I enter via Runcorn Bridge to Hunts Cross or by train, I never venture out to the old parts to see what's new.
I wondered where Plessy used to be. Thanks 👍
@@Jeff1photo You got to it from Rathbone Road via Pighue Lane pronounced Piggy Lane, Lots of terraced houses around there mixed in with factorys, back Street garages, they was mainly railway houses to start with. you also got to it from Edge Lane, that was the main entrance to plessys, Pighue lane was also a short cut to get to edge lane to miss out the traffic lights that you showed us in the video, you had to be a local to know that.
I lived in Middleton rd and me and my mates used to play on the railway embankments sliding down the victorian top water brick made drainage channel's, we also used to play in the derelict greyhound stadium which became the fruit and veg market, occasionally we would walk along the tracks to the goods yards in Wavertree, we also used to climb over the walls into Meccano's yards and help ourselves to the reject castings etc to try and put together cars/planes, or we would head the other way to Newsham Park direction and play in the scrap yard or the back of the abattoir.