VAUXHALL
Inside St Anthony's church 2006, My grandparents married here on 28th March 1937 and my great grandparents married here on 26th August 1905
St Anthony's church and the war memorial 2005
The balcony and organ at St Anthony's 2006
A sign remembering the school and St Albans WW1 memorial located inside St Anthony's 2007
The Dandy Pat memorial in the gounds of St Anthony's 2005
The Dandy Pat memorial 2005
Flats on Grosvenor street waiting for the bulldozer and a warehouse on Fox street 2006
St Joseph's church 2006. All that remains of the church is the doorway and one end wall. The cross still sits proud at the top
My Great Grandparents married at St Joseph's church on 2nd November 1908
St Joseph's church and Bishop Goss school 2006
Dryden street 2007. Old warehouses
Dryden street 2007. The nearly fallen down Cabinet makers and builders yard
Two old doorways in Dryden street 2007
The old Denbigh Castle public house and a warehouse in Rachel street 2007
St Mary of the Angels church 2006
Church bell and notice board at St Mary of the Angels 2006
Gerard gardens statue 2005
Little Italy plaque 2005
2005 A view of Scotland road, not so many buildings now days. Drinking fountain in Byrom street
Old and now demolished warehouse on Wright street and a ships anchor 2005
The Trinity Vaults and the Grapes ( known as the Foot Hospital ) 2005
The Pontack and the Parrot 2005
The now demolished Hamlet hotel and the Hamlet. It must have caused confusion being opposite each other with those names? 2005
Two pics of the Eagle Vaults, one of my dads favourite pub 2005
2005. The Cunard and the now demolished The Clifford
2005 The old Liverpool savings bank and The Crown Vaults. The Crown has undergone a refit since this picture was taken
Two pics of the Throstles Nest in 2005, note the two guys waiting for the pub to open
2011 The Vauxhall Vaults, my dads favourite boozer and where he had his 60th birthday bash, and the Green Man, used in Boys from the Black stuff TV show featuring Shake Hands
The Glass House and sign on rear wall 2005
The Glass House 2011 after the refit
The Athol Vaults and the Castle 2005. The Athol is one of my favourites to see, I love the old photos of it in its hey day
2005. Old Threlfalls pub and The Feathers. The fine building of the Feathers has sadly since been demolished, a great shame
Our Lady of Reconciliation De La Salette church 2005
2005 The historic Eldon Grove housing, sadly repair work has stopped and in 2008 they look pretty much the same as they do here
2005 Their future needs to be saved and they should be shown off for their history
Eldon Grove housing and Ford Street warehouses 2008
Eldon Grove 2011 Looking in a sorry state with the fire damage to the roof
Staircase and Old Fuse board 2011
Two views from the top Landings 2011
2011 Inside one of the flats. Shame to see the work stopped and the building left to rot
A great building going to waste 2011
Looking from the landings at Bevington Street 2011
Ford Street 2008
Two pics of the Kingsway tunnel in 2008 above and 2005 below
Old building on Vauxhall road and St Silvester's church 2005
2005
2008 The old Black Dog Pub
Beattie and Sons Pickop Sreet/Midhall Street 2011
Old Cork Merchants on Springfield Street. The street at the side is Harker Street. (off St Anne Street) 2011
2011 The Blackstock Gardens Memorial to the victims of the WW2 bombing
2011 Schofield Brothers Dalrymple Street
2011 Schofield Brothers Dalrymple Street
The old St Bridgit's School 2011. Below looking down its side along Blackstock street
2011 The old entrance and sign for the Girls at St Bridgit's
2011 The former Bridge Bridge pub on Chisenhale Street. Known locally as The Fly house because it used to attract the little pests as the local tate and lyle workers frequented the pub with sugar on their work clothes.
2011 Looking down behind the bridge next to the pub. The Leeds-Liverpool canal once flowed through here.
2011 Edmondson & Co. Ltd, Birkett Street. Lemonade manufacturers.
2011 The former Sprague Brothers on Paisley Street.
The " Scottie Press " web site has a huge amount of information and old photographs on this area
http://www.scottiepress.org.uk/
I have created Websites in honour of the men mentioned on the World War One memorial's at Our Lady of Reconciliation Church and St Anthony's church
http://www.freewebs.com/eldonmemww1/index.htm
http://anthony1965.webs.com/
