Childhood & Sentimental memories

recovering_spendaholic

I grew up in Liverpool in the late 60's and 70's and remember going to town every Saturday and having our lunch in Henderson's coffee bar - it had this big counter with high padded chairs round it. We used to to go there after we'd been shopping - we always went to Lewis's food hall to get "ham off the bone". The Dock road was cobbled in the 60's and I used to be terrified of the way the car bumped about on it. I used to love looking at all the ships - in those days there was one in every dock.

We used to get the ferry to New Brighton as a treat to go to the fair in the holidays and I seem to remember that there was an outdoor baths in Southport which we used to go to as well.

Do any of you scousers remember a shop in town called Amber? It was like a white cave on the outside - it was on a corner just next to Owen Owens? I got my first "midi" coat there in the 1970s - I thought I was so trendy in it because up to then I had always had to make do with my school coat when I was going out!

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My mum would do most of her cooking from scratch, shop bought cakes and biscuits were rare. The main exception would be once a month during a big shop, when we would have chicken and ham pies from Morrisons for tea.
We had a traditional roast almost every Sunday.
Sweets and crisps were given rarely as treats.

Olliebeak

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I grew up in Liverpool in the late 60's and 70's and remember going to town every Saturday and having our lunch in Henderson's coffee bar - it had this big counter with high padded chairs round it. We used to to go there after we'd been shopping - we always went to Lewis's food hall to get "ham off the bone". The Dock road was cobbled in the 60's and I used to be terrified of the way the car bumped about on it. I used to love looking at all the ships - in those days there was one in every dock.

We used to get the ferry to New Brighton as a treat to go to the fair in the holidays and I seem to remember that there was an outdoor baths in Southport which we used to go to as well.

Do any of you scousers remember a shop in town called Amber? It was like a white cave on the outside - it was on a corner just next to Owen Owens? I got my first "midi" coat there in the 1970s - I thought I was so trendy in it because up to then I had always had to make do with my school coat when I was going out!

I grew up in St.Helens but from about 16 (1967) I would go to Liverpool for clothes for work or going out. I remember Amber very well indeed! Never bought anything in there though. Back then I was a size 16 and boutiques never stocked anything bigger than a 12/14 so could never find anything in them to fit/suit me - it was always C&A for me :rolleyes:.

I do have a memory of the 'Docker's Umbrella' - the Overhead Railway along the Dock Road (sheltering under it from the rain after a day trip to New Brighton on our way to Lime Street for the train home) - though it was demolished when I was about 6 years old.

Southport was another place for a day trip for us and Yes! it did have an Open Air Swimming Pool.

bluenose1

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I grew up in Liverpool in the late 60's and 70's and remember going to town every Saturday and having our lunch in Henderson's coffee bar - it had this big counter with high padded chairs round it. We used to to go there after we'd been shopping - we always went to Lewis's food hall to get "ham off the bone". The Dock road was cobbled in the 60's and I used to be terrified of the way the car bumped about on it. I used to love looking at all the ships - in those days there was one in every dock.

We used to get the ferry to New Brighton as a treat to go to the fair in the holidays and I seem to remember that there was an outdoor baths in Southport which we used to go to as well.

Do any of you scousers remember a shop in town called Amber? It was like a white cave on the outside - it was on a corner just next to Owen Owens? I got my first "midi" coat there in the 1970s - I thought I was so trendy in it because up to then I had always had to make do with my school coat when I was going out!

Don't know whether I am imagining it but now you say i think I can remember the shop (bugging me as I can't be sure, but I have a picture of it in my head.)
There was an out door baths at New Brighton and Southport where I spent many an hour feeling really overweight (in reality I was a stick insect then.)

bluenose1

Olliebeak wrote: »

Hi bluenose - I'm quite a bit older than you are (I think!) - but I remember when the ferries went all the way to New Brighton (there was even a ferry landing stage at Egremont as well!) and the original outdoor fairground at New Brighton which went up a steep slope and overlooked the river. There were small cable-cars there that went from the prom to the top level of the fairground.

If you haven't seen them before - check out these sites:
http://www.newbrightonpostcards.org.uk/
http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/
http://y2u.co.uk/&002_Images/New_Brighton_01.htm

Thanks for that Olliebeak, some super pictures.
every time we walked past the hill where the fair used to be my mum would reminise about it when she was alive.
I used to hate the walk from Seacombe to New Brighton. We used to get the bus home direct from New Brighton to Liverpool so that was ok.

I used to roll my eyes to heaven when my mum would go on about how Liverpool had changed ie getting rid of the Dockers Umbrella etc. Just wish she was still here to talk about it.

Patchwork_Quilt

Well, I remember going to Woolworths in Sheffield and getting ring doughnuts straight out of the machine - hot and sticky!

There was a toy shop called Redgates in Sheffield too. Three floors of toys! It was like heaven!

Olliebeak

mmmmm hot sugar doughnuts! :drool:

Sweetpeanut

loving all these posts, some are even bringing atear to my eye! sunday nights were always my favourite, salmon butties for tea, followed by victoria sandwich cake, fruit flan & cream or cheesecake, my mam used to make lovely puds and meals, did'nt really appreciate them back then:o, if she was here now i'd tell her what a great mam she was, and what a wonderful childhood she gave me. she took me me nans most days, me & grandad would go across the road to the shop and he'd get me 10p worth of pink-shrimps or flumps, nan always had fizzy pop, mum only got it off the pop man on a friday, cream-soda & cherryade;). also sunday nights were bath night, hair washed and dried in front of the fire:D,watching t.j. hooker or crazy like a fox then ester ranzens thats life! and if i was still up, "tales of the unexpected" before all that going mass, then going the out-door (threshers)for bag of beef monster munch, an a frys chocolate cream, 1 each for me and me mam. happy days!! if only id realised that then:sad:

Sunny_Donny

My gran or grandad used to babysit on a Saturday night and would always bring a "fuddle" with them. Bottle of pop - orangeade, tizer or dandelion and burdock, packet of crisps each and a mix of sweets - pink shrips, white mice or sherbert dip.
Sunday dinner at their house with the biggest yorkshire puds possible, Salmon sandwiches for tea there every sunday, playing cards with 1/2p's and grandad slipping cards to me under the tablecloth to help me win.
Wandering off for the day during the summer holidays with our bikes, a drink in a tupperware container and jam butties and only coming back when it was tea time.
The greengrocer coming every saturday as the wresting was on - Big Daddy, Catweazel etc and getting an apple from him for going for the veg for mum.
Getting a colour television for the 1976 olympics - the first one in the street and all my friends coming to watch it.

sb44

I remember when I was about 8 (1969) carrying a bucket of pee downstairs at my Grandma's (no indoor toilet) and missing a step on the way down. Luckily I was near the bottom of the stairs so landed on my harris but managed to keep the bucket upright!

Those were the days.