30-Aug-2003, 08:40 PM
As a matter of fact, William R, I was in Liverpool year before last and visited the old, done up docks and warehouses. Reminded me of Baltimore, MD, where they have also utilized the old buildings for new purposes in a similar way.
I used to live in Ainsdale and when I did my militray service passed through Liverpool every weekend on my way from Padgate to go home. I walked from the old Cheshire Lines station, demolished years ago, to Exchange to get the electric train.
I often spent a Saturday getting off the Southport to Liverpool trains at, I think, Litherland, to take the overhead. It was always exciting to see what ships were in, almost brushing by them on the train.
For years, whenever I was in the north, I would trot off to Liverpool to have a look around and recapture the past a little, but it got very dilapidated looking and more graffiti on public buildings than on a NY subway train. It also seemed always to rain and on one visit I found it so depressing, I swore never to return. However, I did two years ago for the first time in years.
I once canvassed in a general election on Scotland Road for a local candidate who I can assure you was decidedly not a Tory! It was quite an experince allowing me to see the inside of houses that equalled anything in a third world country; front rooms with old car seats and orange boxes for furniture in dingy streets where ragged kids played. Usually, and it struck me forcibly, the most miserable places were inhabited by householders who aggressively told me where to go insofar as most were staunch conservatives!
I used to live in Ainsdale and when I did my militray service passed through Liverpool every weekend on my way from Padgate to go home. I walked from the old Cheshire Lines station, demolished years ago, to Exchange to get the electric train.
I often spent a Saturday getting off the Southport to Liverpool trains at, I think, Litherland, to take the overhead. It was always exciting to see what ships were in, almost brushing by them on the train.
For years, whenever I was in the north, I would trot off to Liverpool to have a look around and recapture the past a little, but it got very dilapidated looking and more graffiti on public buildings than on a NY subway train. It also seemed always to rain and on one visit I found it so depressing, I swore never to return. However, I did two years ago for the first time in years.
I once canvassed in a general election on Scotland Road for a local candidate who I can assure you was decidedly not a Tory! It was quite an experince allowing me to see the inside of houses that equalled anything in a third world country; front rooms with old car seats and orange boxes for furniture in dingy streets where ragged kids played. Usually, and it struck me forcibly, the most miserable places were inhabited by householders who aggressively told me where to go insofar as most were staunch conservatives!
BillR