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pablo42 #639122 16th Dec 2011 10:06pm
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Far better on the busses when there where lots of clippy's..
By the way who is Bert kidding. He go on and got off.


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I think that ship in the picture may not be the Empress of Canada, but the cruise ship Reina del Pacifico.

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Yoller is correct it is the Reina del Pacifico of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company.

http://www.oceanlinermuseum.co.uk/Reina%20del%20Pacifico%20photos.html

Scroll down to near the bottom for an enlargement of the same shot.

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Here is the Reina del Pacifico on a poster reprint by Merseyside Museums, advertising a cruise to South America in 1940. Obviously this cruise never went ahead because of the outbreak of war.

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Some more of when we had 'proper' buses, ...and a 'proper' Woodside for that matter...

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Excellent pictures Billy. Many thanks. No.128 in the third picture looks brand new. She was brought into service in Sept.'48. I think there's one from the same batch in Taylor Street museum (?)

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Originally Posted by Pinzgauer
Excellent pictures Billy. Many thanks. No.128 in the third picture looks brand new. She was brought into service in Sept.'48. I think there's one from the same batch in Taylor Street museum (?)


I almost certainly travelled on that bus; my era and my route.


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In the 2nd picture the building on the left was it there in the 50s/60s and were they public toilets or is it a figment of my imagination?

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Quite right Derek. The building directly above the trio of "Keep Left" bollards/top of the floating roadway.

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That building was a public toilet, but I think I read somewhere that it was originally the ticket office for the floating roadway.

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Originally Posted by yoller
That building was a public toilet, but I think I read somewhere that it was originally the ticket office for the floating roadway.


I'd be surprised if it was a ticket office, it always looked like a purpose built toilet to me.

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In fact, it was originally the Great Western Railway Inquiries and Receiving Office.

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The sign on the building says INQUIRY and Receiving Office, not Inquiries. My mistake.

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That's an interesting old photo, yoller. It pre-dates Woodside station (1878) and also the trams at Woodside. I guess parcels from Liverpool would have come by ferry and left there for delivery to Grange Lane station.
I guess from its position that it may have been a ticket office for the goods ferry even before it was used by G.W.R.


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The original building has a large door and two big windows in its facade, plus quite an ornate roof and seems to be a self-contained structure.

But in billyanorak's picture, we can clearly see another section on the right (looking towards the river), which seems to be a later addition. I wonder if this bit was built on when the office became a toilet, so they could have Gents and Ladies?

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