HERE we take a look at three old programmes handed in by former auctioneer and Crosby resident Billy McMahon.
The first is a Waterloo with Seaforth official handbook containing a map.

It gives a description of the district, labelling it a “health resort” highly recommended by physicians with its “extensive shore front”.
Waterloo is also said to cater well for holiday makers with facilities for tennis and bowls and spacious public parks, including Victoria Park, controlled by the then urban district council.
It also promotes the area’s “up to date cinemas”, music hall and dancing halls.
The programme also talks about the increasing number of people moving to the area, justifying its title of the “Bedroom of the City”.
People are also told about the area’s schools, including Merchant Taylors, libraries and churches.
Adverts for services are also included, such as estate agents with houses up for sale on College Road, Crosby, starting from £675.
Another pamphlet is the official programme of the Crosby Carnival in 1947 featuring the carnival queen Joyce Thomson.

This was the second post-war carnival in Crosby and raised funds for the Waterloo and District General Hospital.
The programme contains a message from the then Mayor of Crosby, James Allen Jones, who said: “The spirit of carnival brings pleasure and joy to the residents of Crosby and to those from farther afield.”
Events during the week-long carnival included a morris and country dancing display, a horse show, a boxing tournament and a motorcycle gymkhana.
The last programme is a souvenir from Merchant Taylors’ Girls School garden fete in 1957.

Its contents includes articles on the history of the school and another on a proposed gym and music block along with illustrations.
It also details an appeal by the Old Girls’ Association to raise £30,000 to allow the second stage of a development plan to be implemented at the school to build the gym with showers and changing rooms.
Do you have any memories of the garden fete or Crosby Carnival.
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