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Posted By: pablo42 Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 2:46pm

I don't appear to recognise much on here, cept Lairds. Anyone got any info

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Posted By: cameraman Re: Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 3:18pm
Judging by the height the photo was taken and the construction work on the right, it's possibly when the blocks of high rise flats were being built. The ones they knocked down a few years back.
Posted By: ludwigvan Re: Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 3:18pm
I think the white building just right of centre might be the old "Crooked Billet" pub on Old Chester road.
Posted By: pablo42 Re: Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 4:37pm
Ahh, it's a bit clearer now. Couldn't get me sodding bearings
Posted By: chriskay Re: Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 6:39pm
So, would that be Sidney Rd. we're looking down?
Posted By: jimbob Re: Looking towards Lairds - 30th Mar 2012 9:06pm
Yes Chris, thats Sidney Road your looking down. The flats that are under construction in the photo where been built in the first half of the 60s, between 1960 and 63.
Posted By: dave_h Re: Looking towards Lairds - 8th Apr 2012 2:54pm
go straight down road the pick is taken on, the street behind the houses, quigley street, the flats is were my dad lived as a kid, on right hand side of road
Posted By: rosieb Re: Looking towards Lairds - 8th Apr 2012 8:45pm
green lane flats on the left side
Posted By: jimbob Re: Looking towards Lairds - 8th Apr 2012 9:24pm
The Quigly Street Flats, if the did not know and jumped over the wall at the bottom right hand side of those flats you ended up with a broken leg or ankle as there was a long drop on the other side on to a piece of land at the corner of Farm Road and Peel Street. In the back entry of the houses in Farm road was a flight of steps which took you up to the ground floor level of Quigly Street flats.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: Looking towards Lairds - 8th Apr 2012 9:47pm
A similar view of the same area taken in 1977.

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