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Also take a look at this 35 minute video called concerning the 47 expelled militant councillors of the 1980s. It features some tenements in decline and under demolition.
Caryl Gardens forms the backdrop to a May Blitz scene. LRO.
Hill Street, Toxteth in July 1959 to record the new street lighting.
Caryl Gardens L.R.O. The colour pic is by Roger O'Hara.
Top left and the colour one bottom is Prince Albert Gardens 50 years apart. The next two are of St. James Gardens. The last is a view looking down St. James Street towards both sets of blocks which were seperated by St. Vincent De Paul's church. Pics Courtesy of the L.R.O. Colour one by Mike Murphy.
Warwick Gardens, Warwick Street as shot by Harry Ainscough in 1967/8 and now property of the LRO.
Speke Road Gardens: Courtesy of the Liverpool Records Office.
Two of King Gardens in the Mill Street area. L.R.O. and one by Freddy O'Connor.
Speke Rd Gdns by Mud.
THE FOUR SQUARES
Queen Anne Street and Soho Street tenements known locally as the four squares. L.R.O.
The pictures showing the old property being demolished as the new tenements are built on their site were taken in 1934. Below left is back Mansfield St.
These truly are 'gardens' now as the weeds penetrate the concrete and tarmac as the blocks see out their last few weeks of a once thriving existance comes to an end.
Birkett Street Tennies by Harry Ainscough courtesy of L.R.O. and one by Joe Devine.
Brunswick Gardens from Caryl Street. L.R.O.
Pearsons of Edge Hill, Liverpool have a new book and website dedicated to their efforts during wartime Liverpool and their part played in armoured vehicles and later coaches. Here is some of their fine array stacked outside Sidney Gardens near Myrtle Gardens. With thanks to Martin Jones.
U.S. 10 wheelers outside Sidney Gardens in war-time Liverpool
Walton Hall Park flats as seen from Queens Drive in 1951.
Kent Gardens courtesy of the L.R.O.
Kent Gardens by Philip Mayer
Kent Gardens by NancyO
Kent Gardens by Mike Murphy.
Kent Gardens nearing its end. Like so many of its counterparts that were left to wrack and ruin in the mid 1980s, demolition was forced upon them, thrashing communities and community spirit in the process. Forlorn and looking in a sorry state, one by one the flats were boarded up, the once vibrant square becoming fair play for vandals to wreck.
Four views of Gt. Richmond street flats from St.Anne Street by Joe Devine.
Great Richmond Street flats. L.R.O.
Photographs by Joe Devine - Courtesy of Gerard Fleming.
Great Richmond Street flats photographed by me on 24/3/07.
Tragedy struck Blackstock Gardens when on 20th December 1940, the square's air raid shelter took a direct hit from the luftwaffe who were bombing the city. Over 200 were killed including those taking shelter from two trams that stopped on Vauxhall Road. A memorial to those people, many unidentified, now stands near Gascoyne Street. The blocks were demolished in 1968 for building of the Kingsway tunnel though it doesn't seem to go that near it.
Blackstock Gardens on Vauxhall Road. L.R.O.
Scotland Road area featuring Woodstock, Ashfield and Hopwood Gardens and Wilbraham House. LRO.
Ashfield Gardens. Pics by Ron Formby. Top. Woodstock Gdns. Lpool Echo.
Woodstock Gardens LRO, and right by Bernard Fallon.
The Newsham pub & Woodstock Gdns by Joe Devine.
Scottie Road in the 1960s with traffic control in force. Woodstock Gardens can be seen fronting the houses on Benledi Street which were back to back with similar residences on Hopwood Street. Built in the 1930s, these are still here, the tenements long gone though.
Wavertree Gardens.L.R.O.
Wavertree Gardens now known as Abbeygate apartments.taken 24/3/07 by me.
Sussex Gardens. L.R.O. and Freddy O'Connor.
The colour pics are by Mike Murphy.
Stanhope House by Philip Mayer and two courtesy of the LRO. The following 7 are by Mike Murphy.
The Mason Street and Corlett Street housing area by H. Ainscough c/o L.R.O also showing Grinfield Street and Back Sidney Place.
The tenements off Crown Street showing Entwistle and Milner House rising from behind. Taken in August 1975.
Lawrence Gardens off Scotland Road. By Ron Formby.
Part of Lawrence Gardens and Victoria Square taken from McKee Street. L.R.O.
The Kingway tunnel approach road construction showing Lawrence Gardens. Photo by Joe Neary.
Sir Thomas White Gardens, Everton. L.R.O.
Lawrence Gardens was isolated on an island created by the Kingsway tunnel approach roads when this picture was taken in the early 1970s and their days are numbered here. It is the land they stood on that is now occupied by Bestway and is mooted by the LCC as a possible home for Everton F.C. Perhaps appropriately, the blue and white No.32 bus is making its way into the city centre having come from Wirral. Pic by J.M. Ryan.
Lawrence Gardens taken in 1971 just as Cazneau St was being broken up from its original line from St. Anne Street to Scotland Road. This was to accommodate the new Kingsway Tunnel approach roads as a circular swathe was cut through the land leaving Lawrence Gardens isolated on an island now known as the loop. Pics By Eric James.
Chaucer House, Scotland Rd. LRO.
Chaucer House by Bernard Fallon.
The Buildings: Owen Road off Melrose Road, Courtesy of Ron Formby (colour ones) and the L.R.O.
Fonthill House was one of 4 blocks together with Melrose, Stanley and Owen which formed tenements known locally as 'the buildings' or 'Billogs'. Situated off Melrose Road in Kirkdale, they were built during the mid 1920s when the old Owen's sawmill and timberyard on Owen Road was cleared. The wash-house chimney is evident in the 2nd picture as is the Fonthill house nameplate. It was a decade later when brick wall landings became the fashion instead of wrought iron railings. These blocks were subsequently cleared themselves in the 1980s, low density housing now standing on newly created closes. These pictures were captured by Ron Formby and featured in the April 08 issue of the Scottie Press local community newspaper which can be accessed on their website.
Wilbraham House, Scotland Rd. Brian Martin.
Wilbraham House on Scotland Road. Pic by Ron Formby.
Wilbraham House 1976 by Joe Devine.
Holly Street in the mid 60s with mock tudor style housing from before WWI on the left and the 1920s tenements on the right where a brewery once stood.
Holly Street tennies during demolition in 1969
Holly Street tenements. L.R.O.
Three photos supplied by Rob Ainsworth showing South Hill House from Dingle Mount and Dingle Lane.
South Hill House. Unique in that it had a 6th floor.
Dingle House by Roger O'Hara.
Rankin st. flats. LRO.
Rankin St flats by Freddy O'Connor.
Dingle Mount showing the tennies as Dingle Rd sweeps into Dingle Lane and the passage leading into the square.
Dingle House was also known as the Orange block.
South Hill Road tenements. L.R.O.
Sir Thomas White Gardens were situated off St. Domingo Road in Everton, Liverpool 5. Part of the original sandstone wall belonging to St. Domingo House, a palatial residence named after San Domingo was incorporated into the surrounding wall in Penrose Street seen on the first pic. The pic on the right shows Wye Street with the flats in the distance.
Sir Thomas White Gardens in the early 70s showing the rows of terraces from St. Domingo Road. Two of the three Sheil Road heights can be seen in the distance. The pic is with thanks to Keith Rose.
Some more LRO pics and info of Sir Thomas White Gardens, these ones by the kind courtesy of Gary Chedgzoy, great grandson of Everton Football club's own Sam from the 1920s.
TL: Looking West towards St. George's Heights in 1971 with the waste ground which was once Severn Street (left) and Wye Street (right).
TR: Part of the development looknig into the square.
Bottom: Rosenblatt's furniture wagons outside the woody in the mid 1960s with the tenements next door. The Woody was originally the orphanage building.
The small block of tennies on the right were situated on Kew Street off Scotland Road, this view is looking East towards Gt Homer St with the iron of St. George high on Everton ridge through the mist.
Sussex Gardens, Park Place in 1969.
An aerial view of Dingle in 1937 showing the tenements and the oil jetty.
Nelson Street flats, China Town, taken 24/3/07 by me.
Muirhead Avenue flats at Tuebrook roundabout in 1960 and when newly renovated nearly five decades later. Also Adshead Road flats, Clubmoor. Both taken 24/3/07 by me.
