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Never look back unless your'e travelling backwards.
Last edited by Erainn; 31st Jan 2011 4:22pm.
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Ooooo...
..bet you also thought it was the seaweed and algae that made your feet slip on the rocks?!
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haha, not much marine life on rocks at NB in those days
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The Mersey was an open sewer in those days. The rocks at New Brighton were more grey than green, and you took your life in your hands if you went in for as much as a paddle. I repeat - 'paddle', not piddle!!
At least you can walk on the beach now without having to wade through fat-balls. And by fat-balls I mean balls of fat, not swollen gonads...!
As a young nipper I used to paddle in the Mersey by the pier. One time I came across a condom which I thought was balloon and yes ( remember I said I was very young ) I tried to blow it up. Etched in my memory.  we told our kids that the condoms were 'snakeskins'. Got away with it for years. Lol.
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Never look back unless your'e travelling backwards. I like that....but am guilty.
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I lived on Ormiston Rd ( just above Vaughan Rd ) and about aged 10 I left the house only to see a rat running up the road I took chase and caught up to it on Sandrich Rd. I cornered it and tried to grab it. It turned and bit me. Put me in the Victoria Hozzy for 4 weeks.. My B in L called it The Mark of the Beast.
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Yes the Mersey was certainly a river of life.
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According to that famous quote by Carl Jung - 'Liverpool is the pool of life'. But I think that even he would have admitted that back then the River Mersey was a lot more like The Dead Sea.
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My Brother in Law used to live in Serpentine Road, he and his brother used to swim in the Mersey by the old landing stage. He had fond recollections of Mersey Tadpoles, aka bits of untreated faeces floating by. Never did him any harm!
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My Brother in Law used to live in Serpentine Road, he and his brother used to swim in the Mersey by the old landing stage. He had fond recollections of Mersey Tadpoles, aka bits of untreated faeces floating by. Never did him any harm! I used to swim in it all the time as well. Never did me any harm once I got over the polio! Only joking about the polio. Turds used to float by and condoms by the score. Bit daft really because most people had real fires in those days and it would have been better burning them than putting down the bog. I remember one little lad picking one up by the pier. His father frantically telling him to put it down and him wanting to know what was wrong with the balloon. The great thing these days is that you can actually see mullet swimming about in the river. Never saw anything like that in my childhood.
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Great photo, that was the livery alright, they were amazing buses and hopping aboad definitely added to the sense of visiting a different land  I think they changed their colour a touch, as I remember them as looking more like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/8050359@N07/3831403632/in/photostream/ You are correct but that is a painting or a print so artistic licence I suppose. They went green and cream when MPTE took over I think?
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Sure, a sort of pale desert yellow as far as I can recall. certainly exotic compared to MPTE
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God help us,
Come yourself,
Don't send Jesus,
This is no place for children.
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For the bus lovers
[youtube]kuHP0V60PjU[/youtube]
God help us,
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Brilliant Wonderful archive footage, grand to see Woodside Station.
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