Jeez George, I took me ole man down there yesterday, he was the Council building surveyor in 84. You need to check out the Miami House in Barchester Drive L17. The guy who built it owned the sound and lighting company in the Vale and made there money doing the sound and lighting for Bon Jovi😊
i was there yesterday for a few hours i may have walked past you ha ha ill have a look at that house as theres a lot of massive homes along that stretch cheers matey
@@g2emedia1977 If I remember correctly, he bought it as soon as the Festival ended. Can't remember which one but it was one of the original show houses.
Hi George, l remember when I went to the Garden Festival site looking around the posh houses thinking l love to live in one of them great video blast from the past 👍
Love the footage of the Spinners at the beginning. I was 20 when I visited the garden festival and I've got a vague memory of going round one of those show homes. Mind you, I've slept since then so I could be completely wrong, but I definitely remember how beautiful the whole area looked. 40 years, bloody hell! Thanks George. Really enjoying your channel.
hi anne thanks for watching glad you enjoy the channel also i do not remember those houses but i think they appear on old photos i have from back in the day when my uncle took me and my brother
I remember the methane gas plant being built to harvest the gasses from the festival site from all the rubbish that had been buried there over the years. One of the biggest methane valve was built where the recycling site is in Jericho Lane. If memory serves me the methane was recycled into the gas mains somehow. Cheers fella.
I think most kids from Liverpool climbed up. I did it in 1961 when we stayed at Colomendy for a week. We were told we could get ice-cream at the top. Bah! Climbed it again forty years later and it nearly killed me. .🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved the festival gardens.. spent a lot of time in there and the pleasure island when that was in the dome…such happier times….excellent work as usual George… On a side note,ever heard of a bear pit in Stanley park? Mrs says there is/was? Know there’s still one in Eastham ferry country park,but Stanley?? See if Liverpool’s own columbo can shine a light on it haha Coffees in the cloud for you matey….
loved it me and even when it was pleasure island i can still hear no limits being played in the roller dome i think my mate mentioned the bear pit i need to get my ass in gear and take a look thanks for watching mate and the coffees
Wow loved this Mate great Historic info. I remember Getting the ferry from the pier head to the garden Festival as i kid, but i got turned Around at the gates as i was not with a adult. cryed like the 9 year old i was. Cheers mate.
thanks dave glad you enjoyed it mate i cannot remember that ferry service although i never had to use it as i lived right on top of the fezzy i do remember lots of kids trying to get into the fezzy when it was pleasure island it was a nightmare every weekend lol good times
Met Billy Liddle at the garden festival , always remember my grandad shaking some old fellas hand then me and me grandad getting our photo taken with him . Haven’t seen the photo for 20 odd years or more sadly ,lost in my nans old house .
very nice houses round from garden festival and must been great festival back in 80s u shound filming location of brooks side close and the bread location great video
I'm chuffed to note that the Liverpool Echo is still a quality read George 😉🙊🤭 I saw the trees in the circular bit of garden, and wondered if they were referring to the circular mounds all through the UK 🤔 I think there's something weird going on with those... they're meant to be burial mounds, but I think they're something else entirely. Thanks for the video 👌
Great info that George, never knew that about them houses, always thought shorefields crescent and Britannia crescent were the first homes built as festival sold land off. Cool that. Where those 6 homes in use when the gardens were open or just ready to be moved into?
i only found out myself last week mad how its all still there apparently they were made ready to be moved into so maybe they had plans for this before the fezzy shut
I only live around the corner by the Vale George and that's the first time I have ever seen what those secluded closes are like mate. I used to go to The Festival site when they were building it with my work. All seems so long ago now mate.
there is lots of these secluded closes around here one in particular i am going to film its private like but no gates its like being in a different part of the uk ha ha
My dad us to sing that song to me when I was a kid love it r you going to come over to the dark side of the river and do Birkenhead Priority or the bear pit Enjoyed the video
that song is embedded into my brain from my parents always playing it as a kid thanks for watching i need to go see that bear pit as a few people have mentioned it...cheers
I am sure I have mentioned (what I am about to say) before ... however I will say it again!. When the 1984 International Garden Festival was first organized, The Conservative Government asked Liverpool "Labour Council" to contribute to the project. Liverpool "Labour" City Council did not approve of Government money going to plants/gardens, as "they" wanted money for Housing and supportive services. When the Conservative Government pushed the "Labour" Liverpool City Council to contribute to the project, they did ... what they did was this ... They built two Council Houses opposite St Michaels Station, as that was the start of the walk way to The 1984 International Garden Garden Festival!.
I'm from Liverpool. The Garden Festival was a huge tragedy. It survived as long as it was launched then immediately left in total disarray, a rat infested dump .
Mate i remember looking around these houses in 84. They were like something from outer space. But i realise now they were just cheap shitty built barrat houses. The british legion in garston is the best view of moel famau.
Pfft. The title 'Liverpool's Millionaires' Row' rightly belongs to Oakfield Avenue, Gateacre. Mansions (proper ones) built there by the Wilson family, owners of Starways Airways. Graham Souness married one of the Wilson granddaughters & lived there for a time. John Aldridge still lives there in a house built on the site of a demolished mansion occupied by Cynthia Wilson.
Literally. It was. Like my old now demolished school; Gateacre Comp.😂 Also, think I remember that part of the garden festival. My parents kept me off school for their 10th wedding anniversary (12/10/1984) and we went just before it closed. This year they are celebrating their 50th ❤
Some really great viewing pal. Keep up the good work
Thanks glad you enjoy the vids
Morning George. Another great video. I remember the Spinners as being regulars on TV when I was small.
hello ruth thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video...my parents used to play the spinners every sunday in the front room
Jeez George, I took me ole man down there yesterday, he was the Council building surveyor in 84.
You need to check out the Miami House in Barchester Drive L17.
The guy who built it owned the sound and lighting company in the Vale and made there money doing the sound and lighting for Bon Jovi😊
i was there yesterday for a few hours i may have walked past you ha ha
ill have a look at that house as theres a lot of massive homes along that stretch
cheers matey
The late Rex Makin, famous Liverpool solicitor, owned one of the garden festival site houses.
did he really
@@g2emedia1977 If I remember correctly, he bought it as soon as the Festival ended. Can't remember which one but it was one of the original show houses.
Thanks George ❤❤❤
thanks for watching
Hi George, l remember when I went to the Garden Festival site looking around the posh houses thinking l love to live in one of them great video blast from the past 👍
mad i dont remember them at all but it was 40 years ago ha ha
thanks for watching matey
Love the footage of the Spinners at the beginning. I was 20 when I visited the garden festival and I've got a vague memory of going round one of those show homes. Mind you, I've slept since then so I could be completely wrong, but I definitely remember how beautiful the whole area looked. 40 years, bloody hell! Thanks George. Really enjoying your channel.
hi anne thanks for watching glad you enjoy the channel also
i do not remember those houses but i think they appear on old photos i have from back in the day when my uncle took me and my brother
I think you and Eric should do a tour of Newsham Park orphanage at night time
good shout that but i think the people who run those events don't let you go anywhere...which is a shame
I've been on one. don't bother, it's not haunted in anyway and the organisers 'fix' any kind of activity. it's a con.
I remember the methane gas plant being built to harvest the gasses from the festival site from all the rubbish that had been buried there over the years. One of the biggest methane valve was built where the recycling site is in Jericho Lane. If memory serves me the methane was recycled into the gas mains somehow. Cheers fella.
Great video again, Please keep these coming. It's fascinating what you come out with. 👍
thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video lots more videos coming like this
The Spinners use to drink in the pub I grew up in 1970's. The Old Fort Prescott Street.
i do quite like the spinners
Interesting place George x
brilliant isnt it
There’s a great view of the mountains from the turner home too ❤
id love to get into that place been on my list for ages
@@g2emedia1977 I worked there for a short while , it’s beautiful inside
Been up Moel Famau when I stayed at Colomendy
I think most kids from Liverpool climbed up. I did it in 1961 when we stayed at Colomendy for a week. We were told we could get ice-cream at the top. Bah! Climbed it again forty years later and it nearly killed me. .🤣🤣🤣🤣
The totem pole from colomendy camp is currently in Liverpool waterfront museum. I got photos with it as kid in 1986 and again in 2023 in town. Mad.
great memories of that mountain from colomendy days
I did it in the 70's
@@Ology3121 Me too bout ‘84 😂
Loved the festival gardens.. spent a lot of time in there and the pleasure island when that was in the dome…such happier times….excellent work as usual George…
On a side note,ever heard of a bear pit in Stanley park? Mrs says there is/was? Know there’s still one in Eastham ferry country park,but Stanley??
See if Liverpool’s own columbo can shine a light on it haha
Coffees in the cloud for you matey….
loved it me and even when it was pleasure island i can still hear no limits being played in the roller dome
i think my mate mentioned the bear pit i need to get my ass in gear and take a look
thanks for watching mate and the coffees
Another great video George amazing how an area can change over time,,, an for the better 😀
thanks chris glad you enjoyed it mad how this area every time i go here still gives off the fezzy vibe lol
Wow loved this Mate great Historic info. I remember Getting the ferry from the pier head to the garden Festival as i kid, but i got turned Around at the gates as i was not with a adult. cryed like the 9 year old i was. Cheers mate.
thanks dave glad you enjoyed it mate i cannot remember that ferry service although i never had to use it as i lived right on top of the fezzy
i do remember lots of kids trying to get into the fezzy when it was pleasure island it was a nightmare every weekend lol
good times
We loved going there! Such fun memories 😁
Me to good times indeed
@@g2emedia1977 it was the first time Id seen /went into a ball pool… I lost one of my jelly shoes and had to go home in my socks 😂
Met Billy Liddle at the garden festival , always remember my grandad shaking some old fellas hand then me and me grandad getting our photo taken with him . Haven’t seen the photo for 20 odd years or more sadly ,lost in my nans old house .
i seen worzal gummidge there in 84 was mad i told everyone at school the next day ha ha
@@g2emedia1977 😂😂😂
very nice houses round from garden festival and must been great festival back in 80s u shound filming location of brooks side close and the bread location great video
hi i have done a brookside one its on this channel......i have 2 i think
I'm chuffed to note that the Liverpool Echo is still a quality read George 😉🙊🤭
I saw the trees in the circular bit of garden, and wondered if they were referring to the circular mounds all through the UK 🤔
I think there's something weird going on with those... they're meant to be burial mounds, but I think they're something else entirely.
Thanks for the video 👌
i love the echo stories that read "amazing hidden gem just a 2 hour drive from liverpool" lol cringey arent they
Great info that George, never knew that about them houses, always thought shorefields crescent and Britannia crescent were the first homes built as festival sold land off. Cool that. Where those 6 homes in use when the gardens were open or just ready to be moved into?
i only found out myself last week mad how its all still there
apparently they were made ready to be moved into so maybe they had plans for this before the fezzy shut
I only live around the corner by the Vale George and that's the first time I have ever seen what those secluded closes are like mate. I used to go to The Festival site when they were building it with my work. All seems so long ago now mate.
there is lots of these secluded closes around here one in particular i am going to film its private like but no gates its like being in a different part of the uk ha ha
@@g2emedia1977 👍👍
Boss, mad how I had no idea of this, so much we don't know about in our city. Cheers for the vids la.
same here i only found this out last week myself mad isnt it whats left in the city from the past
thanks for watching gray
Another boss video george never knew about this so was great to see as i drive past here sometimes
thank you very much for watching glad you enjoyed the video
Brilliant video mate 👍❤️
thank you mate glad you enjoyed it
Great video
thanks mick glad you enjoyed it
My dad us to sing that song to me when I was a kid love it r you going to come over to the dark side of the river and do Birkenhead Priority or the bear pit Enjoyed the video
that song is embedded into my brain from my parents always playing it as a kid
thanks for watching i need to go see that bear pit as a few people have mentioned it...cheers
I am sure I have mentioned (what I am about to say) before ... however I will say it again!.
When the 1984 International Garden Festival was first organized, The Conservative Government asked Liverpool "Labour Council" to contribute to the project.
Liverpool "Labour" City Council did not approve of Government money going to plants/gardens, as "they" wanted money for Housing and supportive services. When the Conservative Government pushed the "Labour" Liverpool City Council to contribute to the project, they did ... what they did was this ... They built two Council Houses opposite St Michaels Station, as that was the start of the walk way to The 1984 International Garden Garden Festival!.
Great vid G
thank you glad you enjoyed it
I'm from Liverpool. The Garden Festival was a huge tragedy. It survived as long as it was launched then immediately left in total disarray, a rat infested dump .
it was a shame it only lasted a few years then left to rot
Don't be too hasty to condemn. It was only 40 years ago and I'm sure LCC will get around to developing this prime waterfront site any day now.
@@atakd 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think the people who bought the first houses in Moel Famau View should sue the estate agents under the Trades Description Act. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
ha ha im pretty sure even when these were built you couldn't see it then
You need to do Anfield cemetery Jack the Ripper suppose to be I there it’s on the signs in the cemetery not far from the Hillsborough memorial
ill take a look when next up there cheers
Substantial substantial ?
Mate i remember looking around these houses in 84. They were like something from outer space. But i realise now they were just cheap shitty built barrat houses. The british legion in garston is the best view of moel famau.
Isn't that flattened
i cannot remember them but im pictured by them as a child when my uncle used to take us ...mad
Pfft. The title 'Liverpool's Millionaires' Row' rightly belongs to Oakfield Avenue, Gateacre. Mansions (proper ones) built there by the Wilson family, owners of Starways Airways. Graham Souness married one of the Wilson granddaughters & lived there for a time. John Aldridge still lives there in a house built on the site of a demolished mansion occupied by Cynthia Wilson.
i see Aldridge all the time around here
Went to that Garden festival...
Built on shite
Literally. It was. Like my old now demolished school; Gateacre Comp.😂
Also, think I remember that part of the garden festival. My parents kept me off school for their 10th wedding anniversary (12/10/1984) and we went just before it closed. This year they are celebrating their 50th ❤
It was a load of shite also😂😂😂
@Ology3121 so right it was. Was at the Demolition disco in 2011 where you got a tiny piece of the building in a purple baggy. Mine is stored away.
still i shite aswell the land they cleared has to be left for a few years before further developments
Great video mate.
thanks glad you enjoyed it