This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA 4962 and RR1087/20)

This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA RR1087/20)

By the early 70s work on the marathon job of constructing the Anglican Cathedral was nearing completion. Stone was cut and taken from Woolton quarries to the Cathedral site in the early days i...

Blacklers store, a Liverpool institution from early in the century, was famous for its Christmas grotto. In the 1960s it was still a thriving departmental store and its annual grotto was eager...

Somewhere round here there used to be a blacksmiths called JS Quine. When I was in Oxford Electric they used to make bits and bobs for us and one of the things I do remember is big soldering i...

Rebuilding commenced in 1950, on 26th March 1953, coronation year, the first third of the rebuilt store opened to the public. Two years later in 1955 the rest opened almost fourteen years from...

Well, this space originally, there used to be buildings. There was a street running down the middle and there was buildings all round here and there was an entry here between the buildings and...

Greenberg's was here on this wasteland, it was Merchant Navy clothing and then when the shipping declined they started selling other outfits like nurses outfits and industrial clothing. And sa...

This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA 6986)

When I was an apprentice in Oxford Electric, which was in cambridge street off Oxford Street, the apprentices used to have to go down and get cakes in the afternoon. And one of the places we w...

Many will remember the old landing stage at Liverpool Pier Head, it was always a hive of activity as boats to three destinations arrived and departed at very frequent intervals. It was also a ...

The River Mersey in the 60s was a very busy and commercially active River. Passenger liners still frequented the landing stage at the Pier Head and the ferries still carried much commuter traf...