December 2008 Archives

A PHOTOGRAPH has been sent in showing a parade in Litherland and the old lift bridge in the background.
It is believed to have been taken in the 1960s and shows the bridge in the background from Bridge Road.
Pictured is former Mayor Cathy Roberts and it was submitted by her granddaughter-in-law Liz Birchall.

Readers who remember the event or have any other photographs of the lift bridge are asked to send them in to the Crosby Herald.
Photographs or memories can send them to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, email lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.

MANY people may remember a street carnival in Crosby in 1975.
Chris Leigh has submitted photos he took of the parade from his parents house in Mersey Road.

The first photograph shows Alexandra Hall in all its glory and the second photograph shows the parade being led along Mersey Road towards the hall by a police panda mini car.

In the third picture the parade has reached Alexandra Hall and it also shows the traffic build-up in Coronation Road.

Anyone who remembers the carnival or has any other pictures of the event is asked to contact the Crosby Herald.
Readers are asked to send information and pictures to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, email lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.

READERS are asked to identify the youngsters having fun in this photograph.
It was taken in January 1954 next to the former Crosby Herald Offices, which were then in Waterloo.

Pictured far right is Tom Murray, who celebrated his 60th birthday this year and now lives in Gravesend in Kent.
Anyone with information or with photographs can send them in to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, email lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.

A READER has told of her memories of a cinema in Litherland.
Freda Hurst of Dowhills Park was prompted to write after seeing a photograph of the former Colosseum in Linacre Lane, which was pictured on October 23.
She used to go there with her three brothers Eric, George and Clive on a Saturday afternoon to see their favourite programmes.

Freda said: "My brothers liked Roy Rogers and buck Jones also The Mask of Zorro. he used to have a sort of big whip and he used it like a lasoo, hurling it in the air and it left a Z mark on his opponent's forehead."
Scores of readers have responded to the photograph and the cinema which later became the Essoldo.

TIMES at The Regent Cinema remain in the memories of many Crosby people.
David Miley has submitted a photograph of the picture house and anyone who knows the date of the photograph is asked to get in contact with the Crosby Herald.
As a child in the early 1960s David attended the Minors of the ABC Club on a Saturday morning.
He said: "It cost four pence and a man would come on stage at the beginning singing 'We're the Minors of the ABC'.
"Some kids would get bored with this and start to throw things at him only to be bawled at by a fearsome usherette wielding a torch that looked like a World War II Army Cycle Lamp."
He said a similar arrangement trip to the Odeon in Waterloo cost six pence.

In the evening he said the Regent was transformed and he also once went to see The Ten Commandments with his parents.
On screen there would be adverts for local shops including the hardware store across the road and Bobby's Milk Bar in Moor Lane.
He said: "During the interval we sat in the lounge on silk upholstered wicker chairs and my mum drank from a cocktail glass."

PHOTOGRAPHS have been submitted showing aspects of life from years gone by.
These include pictures from as far back as 1903 in Waterloo, Seaforth and Crosby.
Two of the photographs show the train disaster at Waterloo Station in 1903.

They show a derailed train on fire on the platform of the station surrounded by rubble.
Anyone with information about the train disaster and anyone with family members who were involved is asked to contact the Crosby Herald.

Another photograph is of the old Seaforth Police Station in Seaforth Road.
It shows police officers in old uniforms standing outside the station as well as a horse and carriage travelling along the road.

There is also a picture of crowds gathered at Islington in Liverpool Road, Crosby.
In the background of the photograph there is a shop called M and E Cook Hardware.
If anyone knows what is happening in the scene and why the crowd was gathered, they are asked to get in contact.

The photographs have been submitted by regular contributor and Memories reader Tom Heath.
Send information in to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, e-mail lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.