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Descendents of Speak Hall
48 Boundary Lane (between the banana warehouse where they still used horses and carts and a pub) was my parents home till 1951. When I...
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The Scouse Kids Prayer
Our kids, who ‘art so mucky Tatty ‘ead be thy name Thy shirt undone Thy world is fun On Scottie as it is in Greaty Give us this day a...
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The Adventures of West Derby
My place of birth, the adventures of Conker Lane, the home of my friends, then, and still now, sixty years later. The resting place of my...
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Roast Dinner With Granny
Sunday streets deserted Terraces row upon row Sleeping, dusty, littered Bare earth scattered with bricks Fragments of glass glitter...
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Story from Ballantyne Road
I am 87 years old and was brought up in Liverpool. I left when I was 23 but my family lived there for many years after. I would not know...
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Sunday Afternoons in the early 60's
We'd stride down the hill to town: Kensington, Prescot Street and London Road, passing the closed shops in quiet streets. Two 13 year...
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The Comments:
These are commented below a series of Mike Starkey's photos Susan Lewis Lovely photos. Feeling very nostalgic. I went to Roscoe primary...
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Bootle Tales
It was summer 1957, me and my mate Terry Savin, had wandered away from our homes in Spring Grove and headed for the jumble sales at the...
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Story of Nellie Pratt
My mom, Nellie Pratt, was born in Smithdown Road on 29th July 1920. I believe she lived their till she left Tiber Street mixed school on...
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Your city isn't mine
I miss my hometown, but not the one you know now The city I left has gone, long been knocked down. I get home sick now and again, for a...
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Scouse: Food in conversation
Robbert ‘Odie’ Carmichael ‘You’d come home and there’d be a Big pan of Scouse an think aw fuckin great get in there, especially in the...
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