Audio Resources
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Graham Middleton remembers the setup of the shop
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th October 2014 | 0 Comments
In order to get into their house on Chatsworth Street, Graham and his family had to pass through a shop. Here, Graham recalls its interior.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Graham Middleton remembers the former location of stables on Tunnel Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th October 2014 | 2 Comments
What is a short distance for adults, can resemble an eternity of travel away for children. This is very true for Graham’s former relation to the far end of Chatsworth Street. Today, not only this estimation of spatial distance has changed. Graham also recalls the former usage of today’s Tunnel Furniture Company, as stables for the horses connected with the railway.... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Work & Industry
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Graham Middleton recounts the neighbourhood shops and family delicacies
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
The local shops underwent a number of transformations while Graham lived in the area. Starting with the dairy, the wholesale, and later supermarket, more and more goods became obtainable. Yet, for Graham’s grandmother tripe, was a staple of her cooking. Graham vividly recalls his endeavour to collect it, as well as the nightly adventure of visiting the toilet.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping, Social Life
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Graham Middleton names his immediate neighbourhood on Chatsworth Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham names and describes his family’s neighbourhood surroundings. Deeply embedded in this social community, Graham grew up playing with the neighbour’s children and celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Graham Middleton describes the impact of both wars on Edge Hill and its inhabitants
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
In this piece, Graham recalls the signs of destruction which were to be found on each corner of Edge Hill. Most significant of these were the bombed hollows with its heaps of rubble and broken glass, as well as the dust-filled air. Additionally, Graham describes the lasting impact of World War I which was evinced in the physical wounds some of Edge Hill’s population carried with them. Thus, highlighting... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, Social Life, The War
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Graham Middleton remembers his mother’s struggles to maintain the family financially
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s parents did not earn a lot of money when he was a child. In fact, during the majority of his childhood, the family was entirely dependent on his mother’s small salary. The little she made from her work at Littlewood’s and the Automatic sometimes wasn’t even enough to cover the rent. Graham takes us to the redeeming of Provident Cheques at Collier’s on London... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry, Shops & Shopping, Social Life
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Graham Middleton remembers his grandparents buying him a rabbit
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham wasn’t allowed pets in the block of flats he lived in with his parents so his Grandparents kept a rabbit for him. His Grandad unfortunately died suddenly in his sleep leaving his Grandmother very frightened to sleep on her own. Graham would spend every weekend there, 25 Chatsworth Street, helping out with household decoration, gardening and eating fish and chips. He recalls the horse-drawn bin-men and the rag men.... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Graham Middleton talks about the fear of Gerry during the war
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham Middleton describes an incident that his mother remembers when a German war plane flew so low she saw the pilot wave to her as she was running down the street.... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Graham Middleton describes watching Westerns at the Tunnel Road Picturehouse
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 1 Comments
Graham remembers the dairy and recycling jam jars and bottles. He used to visit Auntie Bessie who would give them Mars bars from the shop. He remembers coming to the Tunnel Road Picturehouse, which he describes as a ‘flea-pit’, to watch John Wayne films.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Graham Middleton remembers the furniture dealer Jack Frost
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 2 Comments
Graham talks about the credit system at the shop he lived above. He also recalls the many second-hand furniture dealers, particularly Jack Frost, who smoked a pipe and hired his dad to go around with a horse and cart collecting old furniture.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Graham Middleton describes the air raids
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s Mother couldn’t go into the shelter at St Anne’s because they weren’t Catholic. They very nearly went into the Durning Road shelter the night of the big disaster where hundreds of civilians lost their lives (http://www.edgehillstation.co.uk/resources/steven-moran-06/). Graham’s mum would wait for her dad to come home from work in Cammel Lairds before going to the shelter even though... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Graham Middleton tells the story of his Mother’s evacuation to Shrewsbury
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s mother was born in Mill Road maternity hospital and grew up in 19 Chatsworth Street. She was evacuated during the war to Shrewsbury along with her brother. They couldn’t live together because they weren’t allowed to sleep in the same bed. His Mother ended up living with a prostitute. She ran away and she ended up with someone who had read the bible fives times! Eventually she... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Graham Middleton tells the romantic story of how his parents met
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham describes how the trains would rattle the windows of Chatsworth Street as they passed underneath him. His mum first met his dad when he was on leave from the army. He left from Lime Street to return to the front only to get off at Edge Hill to meet with her again, going AWOL (absent without leave). He eventually had to go back to the army but their relationship... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Graham Middleton describes the Pet Shop on Wavertree Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham describes how the Pet Shop on Wavertree Road was owned by a character called May, who used to wear a beret and brown overall. Her brother George dispensed his own medication. May once persuaded Graham to eat a dog biscuit!... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Graham Middleton talks about Wavertree Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham Middleton describes how he could see his Dad and Grandad drinking in the Neptune pub from his Mother’s bedroom. He also remembers Capaldis the Ice-cream shop on Wavertree Road and Elliots the sweet shop.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Graham Middleton remembers school
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham Middleton remembers going to St Catherine’s infants school, with two classrooms and reading Janet and John books until he moved with his family due to over-crowding. He remembers the conditions he endured going to the toilet outside and his mother cooking on the open fire, getting soot on the spuds during bad weather. He also remembers the thick green fog called ‘pea-soupers’.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Graham Middleton describes his early life in Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd October 2014 | 1 Comments
Graham describes growing up in Edge Hill living at number 38 Chatsworth St above the corner shop to which his grandmother was also the keyholder. The conditions were very cramped and when the shop owner decided to sell, his grandparents moved to number 25, sharing with Mrs Roberts. Mrs Roberts had no legs and used to frighten Graham as a child, even though she’s offered him sweets.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping, Social Life
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Edge Hill British Railways band 5
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 14th May 2014 | 0 Comments
Photo of five members of Edge Hill British Raylways.... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Edge Hill Loco Shed 4 May 1968 Last Day of Steam 2
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th July 2013 | 0 Comments
An audio recording of Edge Hill Loco sheds on the last day of steam, Saturday 4th May 1968, featuring the Black Five 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry and some other engines, 48168, on Friday 3rd May at 6.25 taking goods from Canada Dock to Edge Hill. Recorded by Keith Rose.... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Sounds & Ambience
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Edge Hill Loco Shed 4 May 1968 Last Day of Steam
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th July 2013 | 2 Comments
An audio recording of Edge Hill Loco sheds on the last day of steam, Friday 4th May 1968. In this recording we hear the Ayrshire Yeomanry and some other engines recorded by Keith Rose. The image is of a Black Five 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry taken by Tony Laycock sometime late in 1967 with an old Brownie camera at Edge Hill Depot the day it was transferred to Patricroft MPD prior to Edge... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Sounds & Ambience
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