SOUTHDENE,KIRKBY -56 YEARS AGO- 1965
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- These are some clips of Kirkby from British Pathe (original film click here- • And The World Listened... -I've slowed it down, I recognise Bewley Drive,Broad Lane,Park Brow in Southdene and the Johnny Todd in Westvale and yes that is the Spinners walking out of the Todd.
Weird how watching this and being reminded of my childhood made me forget all my worries for 3 mins😢 when the summers where long and hot. Sadness when looking at the past... if only I could step back for 10 mins and breathe in the air
xo
Some of those shots were in Westvale, not Southdene - the Johnny Todd for example, and one of the shots of flats. I recognised them all...Broad Lane (I used to live just off it), the Banners' van - I bought all my Beatles records at the time from Banners - Park Brow Drive...I left Kirkby for good in 1981, only revisiting now and again until my adoptive parents died many years ago - this is exactly how it is fixed in my memory. I've had a long career as a musician and academic, and now live between the SW of France and Luxembourg. The little boy who used to play on the wall outside the chippy in Broad Lane in 1965 couldn't have imagined what lay ahead.
My father was the manager of Banners back the. My mum looked after the records and I worked selling records on a Saturday. Sorry but it was Broad Lane Southdene not Park Brow. My wife was a Saturday girl in the bread/cake shop and we left Kirkby in 1968.
Magic memories mate 👍
@@davidbennion3774Do you recall the name of the department store that used to sell records😅 in the market square next to Forbuoys? Can’t find it anywhere. Banners was great in the late 50s it saved a trip into Liverpool. The market stalls also sold records later
I used to live in ravenhead Avenue
Chippy was run by chinese I remember you could buy a flagon of fresh orange juice there and he would mark it up in Chinese so you get a deposit back
Happy days
I lived in Kirsey road back then and our gang could have took your gang any day
Lived at 98 Broad Lane across the road from Sayers My Brother and I plus all our friends would play Football and Cricket till all hours under the street lights fantastic carefree days of the 70s. Would give anything to turn the clock back so I could hug my Beautiful much missed one more time. X
Very unforgettable memories back in the olden days
My dad is from Southdene he moved to London married my mother'but this place is part of my heritage.
Absolutely love Liverpool.
I use to take my Nan there for her shopping. Filmed before the flats were built
Lol live here. It seems much nicer back then
Thanks Jimmy xx
Remember the rent office at the end of broad lane shops the little tunnel
Yep...on Imber road where we lived. My mum was the cleaner for the rent office in the 70s.
Yes i remember Kirkby well especially Northwood and Southdene Broad Lane had windows of my Bus smashed there Bricks always flying, terrible place.
In the 70s Kirkby was rough.with the empty flats and vandals.
So we used to cut thru the alley at the Johnny Todd to go and bunk into the stadium in 65
Always a crowd of men playing pitch and toss against the pub wall
And sorry to say there was also plenty of wrecked cars
We used to play on the river alt and the workings for the new road system
Kirkby, I don't care what anyone says, in the 60s this was a great place to live. I still have family there yet I moved away about 35 years ago. I remember the flats being built not only in Southdene the ones in Northwood and Quarry Green too. Does anyone remember the army base in Quarry Green? and the barracks that became Quarry Green infant School, I also remember fields that spread out all around Kirkby, as a kid with my mates we would go out early in the morning during the summer holidays and take on adventure after adventure due to the innocence of the place.
To echo Andrew Heyes it would be brill to step back in time and take a breath.
I always thought the quarry green barracks were for US military
@@terrysmith9362 Back in the mid 1990s I recall the Council received a letter from a US resident inquiring if he could visit what he recalled was the old US military detention centre in Quarry Green. He was in his advancing years and wanted to see the buildings he once worked in, during a forthcoming visit he was making to the UK.
Sadly the Mayors office informed him there was no longer any of the white buildings or the old school, or shops that would today face the Quarry Green social club. He was sent some mementoes.
Growing up a teenager in Kirkby in the 1960s. The number of nice pubs and social clubs allowed friendships to be made.
Plenty of work locally and in Liverpool. Kirkby Urban District Council created many great facilities that were years ahead of most UK cities ( Sports Centre and Stadium. Swimming Pool superbly located. And in conjunction with Lancashire County Council some of the finest, and successful Comprehensive schools. Due to the management of Kirkby's housing being with Liverpool City Council, the sheer size of the housing stock made regular maintenance sporadic.
I always recall some female friends me and my mate made in Newquay in 1970, and who were from Essex, came to Northwood in 1970 and thought the Woodpecker was brilliant, as well as the Bier Keller underneath Rigby's pub in Dale Street. The loss of the pubs and social clubs have limited contact for todays generation.
@@fisherpeter695 I used to live in Northwood Bigdale Drive and Kennelwood Avenue. You?
@@terrysmith9362 Back then Just around the corner in Glasven Road, Great place 1960s
@@fisherpeter695 Did the Bundreds live there
My mate lived there just behind the Jonny Todd in wood close.
I love the perspectives being posted here. Some from those who, long ago, left Kirkby. As well as those who stayed. I wasn’t around in the 60’s. Grew up in the 80’s. I neither stayed, nor left completely. Not in my mind. And I still go back once or twice a year in the hols to catch up with family. And it’s interesting to see that many things featured here are how I remember them. But with different cars, clothes and hairstyles😆
I'm sure I seen my good friend Paul Burke on his bike by the Kingfisher Hotel there.
OH! Great video Jimmy, I should have said this on my first post,boss to see stuff like this, make sure you don't get offended by my first one, I was only messing in one way but in another it's a fact.great work and keep it up,should do one of the same route as it is today.
What year did the flats in bunter road southdene get demolished?.....great memories of Brookfield school ..I left in 1965...(anyone from bunter road watching this?)....from back in the 60s...?....
Back before Jed was asking for 10p's
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🤣🤣 he actually has money aswell
We moved to Northwood in 1959 from kirkdale.
I hated the place and after 60 years on still hated it
But you stayed...why?
@@frankhornby6873 i didnt. Moved to London when I was 17
class vid
Wrecked cars left in fields with 'thanks a lot mate' scratched into them, teacher stabbed in assembly, another teacher beaten up when he was getting petrol, gangs everywhere, shop windows with grids and padlocks and petrol pumps chained up. Ah yes the good old days of the 1960's.
I very much remember that kind of thing in the 70s, but not the 60s...the 60s were much quieter, and much of Kirkby (it was a lot smaller then, no Tower Hill yet, no M57 etc) was still new and as yet untarnished.
@@vsmicer I was at Brookfield School for 4 years from 1964 and that was my experience.
charlie farlie ...I was in Brooky from 1960-65....Purcell then Newton buildings....nothing but good memories of Kirkby and Brooky.....life was spent playing footy every evening til dark....wish I could go back to Southdene....in the 60s.....