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The above photographs are a mixture from the Liverpool city engineers department records office, Harry Ainscough, Quentin Hughes, Freddy O'Connor, Liverpool Echo, Paul Sudbury and Ged Fagan. The following were all taken by Mike Murphy.
Pics by Joe Neary 1967. Celebrating the new Cathedral opening.
An aerial LRO shot.
The Lord Mayor and Councillors peruse a model of the Bullring at the public Health exhibition held in George Henry Lee in 1935.
As if caught in a time capsule but look like they could have been taken yesterday, these photos are of St. Andrew's Gardens dressed in bunting for the opening ceromony of the nearby Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on the feast of Pentecost in 1967.
Sent to me by an ex resident of Lionel House in the Gerard Crescent complex who had relatives there, these were taken off the top landing of the Gill Street block. Check out the makeshift altar in the middle picture too, a throwback to when processions with live statues would parade around each of the parishes, ending up with a mass in the squares.
