They were kept very very clean. If you missed your train you knew you could stay there the night for about 3 and 6 pence as it was in them days. And then the next morning you’d have a good bre...

It used to cater for seamen, obviously, who used to be ashore here and it was almost like a Seaman’s Mission. You used to get quite a lot of fellas who’d get drunk and who’d been away to sea f...

Eric: "Opposite Lime Street station there were all neon lights with the Guinness clock all lit up, and I mean it there were neon lights all the way along, with different advertising. It was li...

When we used to go down there, as I say all the buses stopped right in front of the Pier Head. I remember there were big ramps going down and they were kind of floating. When you ran up them a...

You've got to go back to 1956 when I was eighteen with a ginger beard, first year university students and we used to have rag day, when we used to get money for charities and so on. And we use...

When I first started working in Liverpool I used to get the bus from Heswall down to Woodside and go across on the ferry and I’d walk up from the ferry and up into Church Street. That was a go...

Eric: "Pier Head is altered so dramatically that you can’t believe what was there but they had a speaker, like a speaker’s corner like in Hyde Park, that was speakers corner so every Sunday th...

The Pier Head was by far the biggest sort of bus terminal, all the main buses that I got terminated there and that was a follow on really from the early tram system. It reflected the fact that...

Eric: "Well that was for the buses, you know like Rose Street is now, well can you imagine Pier Head full of trams and buses and trams as well. I mean all these streets all had tram tracks up ...

That was the only area I can remember having access to the river, everything else in the north I remember being behind very high stone walls and was all industrial. In the south, what’s now th...

As a young man, we had to sow our seeds abroad, usually Japan and Indonesia. We used to have checkups to make sure that we were okay down below, so we used to have a check up in Singapore and ...

The Liverpool Overhead Railway was established in 1893 as the first electric railway in Britain, locally it was known as the Dockers' Umbrella. In 1956 it would run for the last time, it was n...