Is this bootle leeds &liverpool

[gaggle]

Poster on another site wants to nail this location , info he has just says leeds and liverpool , postcard pic "colour" on an earlier thread here we think shows the same stretch of water but heading into liverpool while we think this one is going out , possible location is between stanley road bridge and the changeline bridge adjacent to

carolina street wharf bootle.

[magpie patrick]

I'm no expert, but first, it's a cracking photo. If you had said nothing, it cries out Leeds and Liverpool. The boats in particular have the right look. There will be far more expert opinions than mine, but I reckon if you stuck Lee barges into the picture, someone would say "Limehouse Cut".

 

Most of the buildings are late C19th but the two tall towers look to be 1930's? Reinforced Concrete?

 

Can't help more but hopefully have given food for thought and kept this post near the top of the new entry list

[Pluto]

Almost certainly the canal next to Carolina Street, just beyond the canal company's Bootle warehouses. The large brick buildings would then be flour mills, and the chimney beyond the bridge, that of the toffee works. The two boats tied alongside each other are general cargo boats, probably waiting for cargo from the warehouses. The empty boat disappearing in the Wigan direction is probably a coal boat, given that most general cargo was carried from Liverpool to East Lancashire, so general cargo boats would be loaded when travelling in this direction. Pity it is a colour postcard, and not a bit sharper. You would be able to see detail a bit better, such as the two towing masts lent either side of the lutchet, or main mast, on the inside boat.

[gaggle]

Coffee House bridge heading out of liverpool , what a place for dead bodies in the water, some kids i knew and some just strangers.

 

 

 

williams toffee works adjacent to Litherland road bridge ,worked there and having no holiday pay due during the summer shutdown i spent time with others cleaning the boilers , took the chance to climb up the metal ladder inside the chimney , bottled out before getting to the top to look out.

 

The pylons coming down , we spent many a summers day up on the top of this one ,sun bathing after we had checked out a nest some kind of hawk had up there , this one is at pleasant street and behind Peter Marsh sack and bag factory , lots of bee hives behind the factory now , a swing we had from this pylon snapped and about 50 foot of rope came down on top of the lad who had been swinging , watched the police bring his body out and he was well tangled up by the rope , even after seeing all this death on the cut , it still draws you back , not just to the boat , if you can get to were your going by walking the cut thats the way to go.

[gaggle]

Jarvis Robinson Transport millers bridge , now maghull coaches yard

 

 

not sure of location of this one ,put up later , the pics are posted on another site and copied .

 

probable location is linacre lane bridge ,brown and duncan engineers palatine works,

 

ADDED -TANKS ARE LITHERLAND TANNERY .

Edited November 10, 2011 by gaggle