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Post by boycie on Aug 19, 2016 15:16:13 GMT -5
Hi All,
I've lived in the area for the past 15 years and recently bought the Pin Ball Machine that used to be in Groppies. I'd love to talk to any of you who remember playing it and can describe the place itself. Thx
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Post by gm on Sept 4, 2016 11:13:21 GMT -5
Hi, used to go to gateacre comp in 61 - 66. Remember Hughes and also Mr Johnston. Bostok the pe teacher. Anyone remember Irwins along the lane on Belle Vale road shops and cousins bakery. Iced buns were good on the way to school. Used to live in churchfield road then. Remeber the hard man of the school in them days. Green I think he was named. But dont think he threw his weight about.
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Post by sam57 on Jun 11, 2017 5:15:10 GMT -5
hi gang - anyone remember my grandparents from Cranleigh road gladys and bill plows. Bill was the postie in the woolton and gatacre area back in the seventies. I'll put some memories to text when i get a quiet five mins. Good morning, just found this site and can't believe believe how the memories are flooding back. I worked with Billy Plows for many years till his retirement. He was a lovely man and would keep me in stitches about his war time years, he did the poshest round in woolton along acrefield road. When he retired the locals had a whip round for him and a woman who sounded like the Queen came to the sorting office and presented Billy with a card and gave a lovely speech about him. I'm a postman in London now and there are no characters like Billy and others I worked with at Woolton. I lived in Attlee house in the mid 60s and went to OLA from 62 to 68. Happy times.
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Post by boy on Mar 9, 2018 5:22:28 GMT -5
Hi Ken, I have very fond memories of Gateacre having moved there from Huyton in 1957. I think Lee Park Estate was still being built when my family moved to Widmore Road. Gateacre then was still the countryside and there were no gangs (yet) so it was a safe place to live. I went to Blessed John Almond school (now he's a Saint) with my brother Charlie, we used to catch the number 66 bus from Lee Park estate to Garston. Two of my best mates were Reggie Dixon and Pete Corbett, anyone remember them? I used to work in Old Ma Guys shop on a Saturday. I wish I had a time machine and could go back to Gateacre in 1961 because that was the greatest time of my life, I have very happy memories of the prefabs around the Besford Road area, I believe they have all been demolished along with another place that I remember very well, Childwall Valley High School. I haven't much time at the moment but I will be back at a future date with some of my memories, mostly good, some bad. JimHughes P.S. Do any of you remember Stanner Gwilt?, I think that was how you spelt his name, he was the leader of one of the local gangs. Also, do you have any memories of Groppies at Childwall Fiveways? Good old George Groppie.
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Post by boy on Mar 9, 2018 5:45:19 GMT -5
hi lee park and Gateacre Glenda smith here now Glenda Bown loved reading through this brought back happy memories of Gateacre comp remember all the teachers and school pals. the girls and the boys alvo foxy use to go to Liverpool city reeces to dance to soul and motown from age 16 up happy days lived in jones farm road now live in Dorset for over thirty years,married with two lovely grown up sons would love to here from anyone who remembers me happy days luv Glenda x
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Post by kevinky on Jan 31, 2019 7:50:10 GMT -5
omg just reading these threads take my mind back so much.. I lived on hedgefield Road and spent hours in the lineside Road swings charlewood park hedgefirld Road shops and all the surrounding areas in those carefree days. The Murphy girls my neighbours on hedgefield road. I went to belle Vale yes I remember Mr quale, I went onto the Holt in 1961, Jackson pond Coxhead farm. The pond and fields before our ladies was built, the concrete anti tank pyramids by the railway line at the end of the tunnel of then Cranleigh Road. where we used to put pennies and granite chips on the line for the trains to crush. gorsey cop orchards. Reynolds Park, belle Vale shops. Dr Odriscol wambo lane bluecoat foods the council yard and the orphanage, oh such happy days.. Anyone remember me Kevin cumpsty I'd live to hear from you x
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Post by steve55 on Aug 18, 2019 13:07:27 GMT -5
Just discovered this forum! I lived in MacMillan House from 1973 to 1978. Good memories, I used to drink in Gateacre and Woolton Village but was not fussed on the Nook or the Lea Park Hotel. Moved out in 1978 and bought a house off Shiel Road as my wife was expecting our first child. I now live in Warrington and have done since 1982 but remember those days fondly and also my time at the Comp
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Post by steve55 on Aug 18, 2019 13:07:48 GMT -5
Just discovered this forum! I lived in MacMillan House from 1973 to 1978. Good memories, I used to drink in Gateacre and Woolton Village but was not fussed on the Nook or the Lea Park Hotel. Moved out in 1978 and bought a house off Shiel Road as my wife was expecting our first child. I now live in Warrington and have done since 1982 but remember those days fondly and also my time at the Comp
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Post by lynne56 on Jan 15, 2020 11:08:06 GMT -5
There don't seem to be many people sharing their memories of Gateacre, so I've decided to have a bash. I'm not really a Gateacre person, having been born in Toxteth and having lived for 13 years in Lee Park Estate until 1970, but I have fond memories of Gateacre which formed an important part of my life as I grew up in the 1960's. Our family moved into Beechill Close, Lee Park, in Dec 1957. The estate had only just been built and we were among the first families to live there. Having moved from deepest Toxteth, our new house was like a dream come true with the open countryside, then under a blanket of snow, on our doorstep. Our part of the close was still a rough cinder footpath leading down to Fordcombe Road, but we could see for miles across the golf course and the country beyond. My new school was Woolton County Primary, and walking there through The Nook with my Mum, the area seemed enchanted to our eyes with the pure white snow lying undisturbed amongst the trees, criss-crossed with spidery bird-tracks. and when we were walking back home through The Nook we found that someone had traced in the snow at the edge of the trees "The Enchanted Wood". Gateacre itself was a beautiful - and quiet - "olde worlde" place. I remember a little shop in the village, run by an old lady known as "Old Ma Guy" (in my local history research I discovered that the Guy family go back a long way in Gateacre). My new school, Gateacre Comprehensive, was being built in 1960, and up at the top of Grange Lane was open country, with Gorsey Cop farm on the right, and "Jacko's Pond" a little further along. We used to go rambling and picking blackberries up there - a little hard to imagine nowadays! The minister of Gateacre Unitarian Chapel was the Rev. Phillips, and his son Donald was a friend of mine. I was actually Confirmed at St.Stephen's Parish Church which was then opposite a large Prefab housing estate centred on Wambo Lane. In 1961, before those dreadful 14-storey Lee Park maisonettes were built, we were actually able to see, from our front porch, the new Widnes Bridge under construction several miles away. Nowadays the only view is of more houses with a screen of tall trees beyond. Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough so I'll stop here.
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Post by lynne56 on Jan 15, 2020 11:09:40 GMT -5
Hi Ken i also lived in beechill close from nov 1956 was your last name brown ?
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Post by lynne56 on Jan 15, 2020 11:20:39 GMT -5
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the post. Some of those names do ring a bell, somewhere! I vaguely remember your house; Leslie & Viv were next door to us on the corner of Fordcombe, and the Hoares were next door up Beechill. I haven't heard from Viv for a while; we exchanged a few e-mails and I sent her some snaps I took in 1960 when it was all open country across Fordcombe. They include Les & Viv and their mum, and my own family in the back & front garden when it was all still new. A different world then! I still sometimes dream about going inside our old house again! There's a good aerial close-up on 192.com and you can see a big tree in the back garden near the corner of Lee Vale, maybe it's yours, Cheers, Ken
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Post by lynne56 on Jan 15, 2020 11:23:37 GMT -5
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the post. Some of those names do ring a bell, somewhere! I vaguely remember your house; Leslie & Viv were next door to us on the corner of Fordcombe, and the Hoares were next door up Beechill. I haven't heard from Viv for a while; we exchanged a few e-mails and I sent her some snaps I took in 1960 when it was all open country across Fordcombe. They include Les & Viv and their mum, and my own family in the back & front garden when it was all still new. A different world then! I still sometimes dream about going inside our old house again! There's a good aerial close-up on 192.com and you can see a big tree in the back garden near the corner of Lee Vale, maybe it's yours, Cheers, Ken
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Post by lynne56 on Jan 15, 2020 11:27:49 GMT -5
Hi Ken i lived in 30 Beechill maiden name was Hoare mrs roberts lived next door to us before the Barkers moved in and spencers lived behind
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Post by steveowens on Feb 11, 2021 17:41:44 GMT -5
Hi Jean1954, Would you like to send me a personal message with your e-mail address, and I can send you the old pics I have. They're just old family snaps, but with interesting backgrounds of the Beechill Close/Fordcombe Road area around 1960, and those wide open spaces across Fordcombe Road! I'll see if I can root out any more recent views. And for LIN (see message on 27/1) I've also got an old newspaper cutting of the demolition of those 14-storey maisonettes which I must post on the forum. In the meantime, have you looked at www.192.com If you click on "maps & travel" you can zoom in to anywhere in England, with excellent aerial views of Lee Park, much clearer than Google Earth! Regards, Ken P.S. Chaplestead, it was reading those early posts that inspired me to start the Lee Park thread, due to the lack of response. So I'm also guilty of failing to respond to your message in the first place! But many thanks for getting it going, and maybe more people will now appreciate those first precious memories, Ken
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Post by steveowens on Feb 11, 2021 17:45:14 GMT -5
To Jean1954, was your family name Thickbroome.. you had a lot of bros and sisters.... we lived on the corner of Fordcomb and Ringway..It hasn’t changed except the flats are down and there are houses in the place now. But Fordcomb houses are the same.
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