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Terry and Sandra Williams remember what it was like to watch films
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Terry and Sandra Williams remember how, in the Tunnel Road picture house, a member of staff would spray a perfume which the patrons thought was nice, but was in fact intended to kill the fleas! They next mention the three cinemas on Lime Street, which were so crowded that quite often, couples would have to separate when a place finally became available, so you would have one eye on the... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry and Sandra Williams recall the local cinemas
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Terry and Sandra Williams mention the various cinemas that existed in the area when they were growing up: the Tunnel Road picture house, the Pavilion theatre, the Magnet in Picton Road, the Cameo and the Smithdown Picture Playhouse. They mention that the Pivvy was cheaper than the more popular Tunny, but was a frightening place to be inside because you would be “in the gods” i.e. near the ceiling,... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Terry and Sandra Williams remember the circus in Lodge Lane
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 1 Comments
Married couple Terry and Sandra Williams remember how animals used to embark en masse at Edge Hill to go to a circus at the Pavilion theatre in Lodge Lane: they would sit on the railway walls to watch the spectacle. They were allowed to walk right up to the animals and pat them, and would follow the procession until it reached the Pavilion. Terry remembers how once he entered the... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Margaret Cropper describes the Lime Street switchboards on which she worked
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper explains that she wore earphones when working on the Lime Street switchboard, and would pull the plugs up and push them into the socket if the light came on and announce “Lime Street”: calls from Mr. Byron, the railway boss, would take priority over all others. After the plugs had been put in, she would press a switch to start ringing until the caller answered, and then the... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Margaret Cropper gives more memories about working at Lime Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper provides more recollections of her days working on the switchboards at Lime Street station. She married a man from the Parcel Office, and she remembers how he would play Frank Sinatra to her down the phone! She also mentions how her colleagues Irene Kinder and Doreen Barrett would talk on the phone for a very long time, and how once Vera Scout spilt a drink on her switchboard... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Margaret Cropper talks about Edge Hill and Exchange stations
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper remembers talking to Eric Coffey, the station master of Edge Hill, on the direct line to the station from Lime Street, and also - unusually - meeting him. She also talks about Liverpool Exchange station. Exchange was opened on 13th May 1850 as Tithebarn Street, as the terminus of three different railways: the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway, the Liverpool and Bury Railway, and the Ormskirk and Preston Railway... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Margaret Cropper remembers travelling to Lime Street every day for her work
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper remembers how she would walk to school every day when she lived in Yorkshire, but is unable to remember how she got to Lime Street when she worked there (she received free travel): in particular she wonders how she was able to get there for six o’clock when now she cannot even get up for nine o’clock! Margaret mentions Allerton station, a station (in Garston, not... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives
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Margaret Cropper remembers the romances that developed over the Lime Street switchboards!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper goes into more detail about her work on the Lime Street switchboards. All the calls they would receive were inquiries from the public, and there were six lines from the switchboards to the Enquiry Office. They would also have to send calls to the Parcel Office and the Complaints Department. She and her three colleagues, who all got on very well with each other, worked in isolation from... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Margaret Cropper remembers her work as a telephonist at Lime Street station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper remembers how she began working as a telephonist at Lime Street station at the age of 17, having moved to Liverpool from her native Yorkshire two years earlier, and stayed in the role for five years. She worked with three other women, Vera Scout, Irene Kinder and Doreen Barrett, and would begin working early in the morning: sometimes they would flick the switches off because they could not cope... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Joe McHenry remembers social life when he was growing up
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Joe McHenry talks about his social life when he was growing up. He mentions pubs, and how the men would play pitch and toss, keeping an eye out for any police offiers! He also recalls newspapers, street singers, bombed sites, escapology and cinemas. According to Joe, the saying “this is where I come in”, derives from the practice of entering a cinema halfway through the film (as soon as any... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Joe McHenry remembers that there was a cow near where he lived as a boy
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 2 Comments
Joe McHenry remembers his education at St. Hugh’s School and then Toxteth Technical Institute - or Treacle Toffee Idiots as its pupils were known locally! He and his parents then moved to Lark Lane after he completed his National Service. He also remembers how, as a boy, he would note the air raid shelters in the street, and wonder if it were possible to jump from one’s bedroom... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Joe McHenry remembers the night school at Liverpool Exchange station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Joe McHenry explains how, at night school, he was given the Blue Book of railway rules and regulations. Once, however, the Blue Book got him into trouble: a man phoned and asked to transfer some returned empty crates, which were, according to the rules, charged at a higher rate than new empty crates, and when Joe insisted on the higher rate the customer got angry and complained to the superintendant,... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Joe McHenry recalls his work as a telephonist at Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Joe McHenry recalls how his worked as a telephonist on the switchboards at Edge Hill goods yard: he had to keep a record of the wagons that entered and left the yard, and type invoices. Then he went to night school at Exchange station, and then did his National Service at an unusually early age when he learned of the poor pay prospects on the railway... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Pamela Parry talks about her great-grandfather, who worked at Edge Hill as a brakesman
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Pamela Parry explains how her great-grandfather worked as a brakesman at Edge Hill until he was killed in an accident at gridiron sidings in 1907. He lived at the now-defuct Spekeland Vale with his wife, Elizabeth McEvoy, and four children - one of whom was Pamela’s own grandmother. She thinks that they must have been a happy family until tragedy struck... Read more
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Astrid Massey tells of how her father received a commendation
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Massey mentions how her father received commendations from Canada and the United States for his kindness, though she does not go into detail about exactly what he had done... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Astrid Massey recalls how her father, working on the railway, saw her and her sister misbehaving!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 3 Comments
Astrid Massey remembers that she and her sister once played in the Botanic Park lake, which they were not supposed to do: when they got home, they learned that their father, working on the railway nearby, had seen them! She goes on to mention how the NUR Branch Five club had to apply for an extension if it wanted to hold an event after quarter to 11, and even then, it... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Astrid Massey remembers her work as a barmaid
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Masset talks about how she worked as a barmaid at the NUR Branch Five headquarters in Deane Road, and would make shirts for the men when they attended the functions there: she also remembers the skirts and shoes that she wore. Astrid next mentions working for the Co-Op chemist in Lockerby Road... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Astrid Massey talks about NUR Branch Five
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 17th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Massey describes how the National Union of Railwaymen’s Branch Five purchased a club on Deane Road to organise social functions, including Charlie Chaplin films and performances by Ken Dodd: Astrid herself worked there as a barmaid... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Astrid Massey talks about her father’s work on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 17th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Massey talks about her father, Leonard Rose. She explains that he began working at Edge Hill as a van boy at the age of 14, before becoming a porter and then a goods guard during the Second World War, when he worked on trains bringing ammunition and prisoners of war. One day, they received a visit from then-then Princess Elizabeth, when Leonard was required to walk in front of the... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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John Marston recalls the shops on Wavertree Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 17th February 2012 | 1 Comments
John Marston talks about the many shops on Wavertree Road, such as Woolworth’s, Waterworths and Freemans. He remembers the cheques Freemans issued for those too poor to pay for its products, its plastic coins and the chute in which it put its money... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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