I read an article last night that claimed apps and mobile devices would kill the internet - bollocks, of course - I suspect it's the best thing that will ever happen to the internet and clean it up a bit.
To illustrate the point, I found this photo album today. These Pictures are from Liverpool in 1975. At the time I was based a few miles away over the water but we would come into Liverpool regularly to shop or take my sister to Alder Hay for her Eczma treatments. I am the same age as most of the children in these astonishing images, strange how ancient they seem, everything looks familiar and alien at the same time. They are going on show next year - but you can view the whole Flikr set on here. Paul Trevor also has a website here - but it's being updated at the moment.
The Jubilee party one is very effecting, we had an identical party on DeeView Road which only had houses on one side ( but they looked the same ) - and quite a nice view over the Wirral on the other towards Livepool - you could clearly see both Cathederals. I ate more that day than I had ever eaten in my life - and was sick all over my bedroom afterward. My mother helped with the bunting - but as she had no red, white or blue fabric made hers from Chintz - to the confusion and entertainment of the neighbours.
This was a time when you would see kids out playing everywhere - making castles and tanks from Cardboard Boxes and just using our imagination, you won't get that now.
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I had my first birthday in the summer of '75 but had 3 sisters who would have been 11, 9 and 6, so we could easily have been one of those families in the photos. We lived not too far away, in Bramhall near Stockport.
The following years till I was about 7 I'd say, were equally free in my memory...
Thanks for finding these Richard.
Hx
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