When I started off my Streets of Liverpool blog four months ago, one of my main aims was to highlight the amazing number of photographs about Liverpool that were in private and public collections. These range from documentation of local authority work (such as the City Engineer’s Department), the outright commercial (Francis Frith and other companies) to the personal work of photographers just looking for an interesting shot.
My blog was intended to stimulate discussion on issues such as access, the whereabouts of ‘unknown’ collections and the history of photography in Liverpool. Above all, it was meant to bring previously unseen images to public attention and, hopefully, stimulate discussions about the city and its history. I hope that it has managed to do that – and I have been greatly encouraged by the response so far. Today’s image is another gem from the 1950s of a house in Liverpool with three generations posing for the photographer. Like my first ever post – of three young boys – this photograph of three girls asks the same question – what happened to them? Here is an incentive – if anyone out there can give us an answer, I will send them copies of Village Liverpool and Liverpool Characters and Streets, my two latest books. They will all be in their mid 60s now – but who are they – and how did their lives turn out? I will aso give the same two books to anyone who can name the three boys in the first post back in January.
My husband, the (sadly now late) Mickey King was conservation officer in Liverpool the mid 1980s, not 1970s, but would probably be happy to accept responsibility for saying that Liverpool had more Georgian buildings than Bath. He certainly contibuted to the regeneration of the City’s architectural Heritage – and would want to see it continue.
A small taste of the Conservation work carried out in Liverpool during the 1980s and 90s can be found throughthe following link
http://www.ihbc.co.uk/branches/north_west/docs/northwest_news24/nw24.pdf