Old Swan Liverpool in the 1950's (2)

This is a brief video, taken from a Tram Video of all around Liverpool in the 1950's. If you are from Old Swan you may recognise St. Annes School on the left( 8 secs ) , 19 seconds is the flats in the distance, now Tesco's, 29 secs is the kwik save on the right, Highfield shops are around 46 secs and 1:26 is the Calgary Church and Baths in Dovecote. It's basically taken along Prescot road ... in the 50's ! ! This video is a great film of all around Liverpool suburbs.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Old
• Swan
• Liverpool
• 1950's
• Trams

[suearmy]

i have lived in the swan all my life ,and can remember the trams when they were no longer in service being garaged where the netto now stands next to the green lane tavern

[hmtmaj]

you just catch a glimpse of it about 8 seconds into the video, on the left hand side..

[jimsouse1]

Thanks very much for clip mate.remember the tram sheds before they knocked it down to build some inshops then a kwik save then netto.lived around the swan for over 30years changed so much.

[choclatesaltyballz]

thankyou so much for the link

[harrypope1]

Ahh, my old stamping ground. Blackhorse Lane Tram stop, the terminus for the number 9 trams and the start of the central reservations that ran all the way to the outskirts of Prescot. What a mistakethey made to scrap them all instead of keeping and modernising them.

Can just remember going to the kids shows at the "Old" Regent and the opening of the "New", about 1938?

Strange that the "Old" building is still there but the "New" is well gone.

[crimsonrush]

39 seconds in, I'm not sure, but I think that MIGHT be my mum and dad (before I was born). :)

[Moviestar20]

wow the 50s...

[Zachamei]

Haha, Old Swan has changed alot, hasn' it?

[andy1976uk]

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[LiverpoolLoyal1690]

Excellent, thanks for posting. I live a few streets down from St Annes and can see that a lot is the same. The wall round the playground is still there.

The place seems a lot more pleasant then. The roads are less busy and there aren't drunks from the Sally Army hostel wandering about the place

[kirbyhater2]

its unrecognisable