Audio Resources
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Fred Foley remembers Lovat Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Foley remembers Ernie Hudson the milkman and the Craven Heifer pub off Lovat Street.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Fred Foley recalls going to Edge Hill library on Lodge Lane
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Foley nostagically remembers Lodge Lane and going to the library there on a Saturday morning following his weekly bath. He also highlights the importance of visiting places from your past even though you can’t go back to the way it actually was.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Fred Foley talks about the dogs home in Wavertree
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Foley remembers the local area, in particualr going to Wavertree Park and hearing the dogs barking at the dog’s home.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Mary Connolly remembers living in Myrtle gardens and shopping on Wavertree Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th July 2012 | 4 Comments
Mary Connolly remembers living in Myrtle Gardens and shopping on Wavertree Road.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, Shops & Shopping
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Mary Connolly recalls moving to Myrtle Gardens and having electricity
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Mary Connolly recalls moving to Myrtle Gardens after living in Hope place and having electricity for the first time.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Pamela Spencer talks about her time working at University Halls of residence, Liverpool.
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Pamela Spencer recalls her time working as Bursar at University Halls of residence, Liverpool.... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Change & Communities
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Steam Train Recording Canada Dock to Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Steam train recordings by Keith Rose. Canada Dock to Edge Hill Engine 48665 at 18:30 on 03/05/1968 ... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Sounds & Ambience
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Steam Train Recording Canada Dock to Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Steam train recording by Keith Rose. Canada Dock to Edge Hill Engine 48168 at 18:30 on 01/05/1968 ... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Sounds & Ambience
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Fred Risk recalls being involved in taxi races in London
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk remembers how he would travel from Aldershot to London by train, and then, with the other men going back to camp, travel by taxi from Euston to London Waterloo station in the early hours of the morning, and the taxis would all race each other! Also, the men would all strive to be first on the train from Waterloo to Aldershot, with not all of them paying! On... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Fred Risk recalls the train journeys he has made in his lifetime
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk recalls, as a boy, travelling to Llandudno and Rhyl, because his father, as a railway employee, was entitled to concessionary fares: they would also travel to Douglas because Joseph was able to get concessions from the Isle of Man ferrries as well. The family would also travel to Southport, and Fred would go to Southport to get the train to Freshfield when he was doing his National Service.... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Fred Risk talks about his work for a company making life-saving equipment
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk mentions how, like his mother, he worked at Meccano for 23 years: after it closed, he got a job in Birkenhead for a company which made life-saving equipment. Among the equipment he designed were life rafts for the RAF, the Royal Navy and civilian shipping, fire clothing for the RAF and merchant ships, and submarine escape suits for the Navy. In this job, Fred went to all sorts of... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Fred Risk recalls the members of his family who worked on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Risk remembers how he would go round to visit his aunts. He next tells of how his cousin was a plate-layer, responsible for laying down the lines, his uncle and wheel-tapper, responsible for tapping wheels to make sure there were no cracks in them, his grandfather a shunter and then a signalman, and another uncle worked in the Birkenhead Goods Depot. Birkenhead Town Station was built by the Joint... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Fred Risk talks about his mother
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk describes how his mother, Martha Sarah May, worked in Meccano for 23 years. Meccano was established in 1907 by Frank Hornby, a clerk from Liverpool, and a large factory in West Derby Road was bought: the factory in Binns Road was acquired in 1914, and became the company’s base until November 1979, when it closed. Martha was in charge of the assembly line, and would read her colleagues’ tea leaves, until... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Fred Risk talks about his father
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk recalls how his father, Joseph, worked as a detective for the Railway Police - before nationalisation (which took place when Fred was 19 years old), the Big Four all had their own police forces: after it, the British Transport Police was created, with jurisdiction over all railways in Great Britain. Fred remembers some of the incidents his father was involved in, including one where he arrested a man who... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Fred Risk remembers the shops on Wavertree Road when he was growing up
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Risk remembers how he was born in Gourley Road, and how he would come with his mother from Cicely Street, where she lived, to Wavertree Road. There were many shops on Wavertree Road in those days, including Woolworth’s and Stairer’s. Fred also mentions “the church at the top” of Wavertree Road, presumably St. Dunstan’s (though St. Dunstan’s is actually located in Earle Road), and Picton... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Terry and Sandra Williams recall more about their life growing up
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Sandra Williams mentions how she, the tallest girl in the street, would shin up the lamp post to throw the rope around its bar and create a swing, an activity that often got them into trouble with the police! Terry recalls playing ollies on the bombed site in Tunnel Road, and scrape sugar falling out of the sacks on the wagon, put it in the Ollie bags so his grandmother... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry and Sandra Williams mention the local parks
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 1 Comments
Terry and Sandra Williams remember mixing up lemonade power with carbonated water in a bottle before spending the day playing in the local parks: Mystery, Wavertree Park, Botanic Park and Princes Park. They remember the air raid shelters in Botanic, and how they used to play in them: Terry mentions that they are still there, but being covered up. They would also travel to the Cast Iron Shore in Aigburth:... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry and Sandra Williams talk about their families
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Terry and Sandra Williams remember their families and how close-knit they were: Sandra’s grandparents lived next door to her. Sandra names her parents, William Blight and Emily McKenna, and her paternal grandparents, Jack and Sarah Blight. Terry then mentions that most of his family was born in Chatsworth Street: he would regularly see his paternal grandmother, the former Florence Smith, who lived in Oldham Street, but never knew his... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry and Sandra Williams recall feeding the horse that pulled the milk float!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Terry and Sandra Williams talk more about the outdoor pub, or more accurately off licence, on the corner of Tunnel Road and Heathcote Street: Terry would regularly buy a bottle of Bulmers cider for his father, and all the bottles would be returned: they would also recycle jam jars, milk bottles and lemonade bottles. Next, they mention the bins built into the backyard walls of their houses: the rubbish would... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry Williams remembers how he raised the money needed to see films
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Terry Williams recalls how, in order to raise the money he needed to go to the cinema, he would collect jam jars. He would also go to the house of an old widow, Mrs. Much, and take her vegetables to market: in return, she would pay him. Sometimes, she would encourage Terry to take Guiness bottles to the outdoor pub on Tunnel Road in exchange for the deposit, which could... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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