Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Happy Easter to all our members, hope you all have a happy and holy holiday. While the dinner's cooking in the oven you will have plenty of time to come online and do a bit of research. Hope you get lucky!

Hi MaryA Thank you for your Easter wishes and I would like to add mind to all you lovely helpful folks.
I don't participate much as you are all to quick off the mark for me but I love reading your replies especially your early memories Liverpool/Bootle which I knew when I was a child as my mother's family originated from Ireland and settled in Bootle. When visiting the Great Aunts they used to say "come on we are going down Strannie". It was only in later years I realised this actual referred to Strand Road
Good luck to all with future research and I lok forward to hearing of many great finds.
yappie

You all have your talents and I hope you join in as much as you'd like to and we'll appreciate your help.

Your story reminds me of a phrase that puzzled me as a child, but is still in common use nowadays - "Going to Gracie".

I always wondered who Gracie was and it took me a long time to work out that it meant Great Homer Street market

MaryA wrote:You all have your talents and I hope you join in as much as you'd like to and we'll appreciate your help.

Your story reminds me of a phrase that puzzled me as a child, but is still in common use nowadays - "Going to Gracie".

I always wondered who Gracie was and it took me a long time to work out that it meant Great Homer Street market

I could have told you who/what Gracie was! For some years in the mid 40s my dad was a partner in a watch and clock repair and 'joolry' shop in Great Homer Street directly opposite the market just a few doors down from the Cocoa Rooms. I used to work there on Saturdays and Sundays and during school holidays repairing clocks for my pocket money. I remember shawlies coming in on a Monday or Tuesday to buy a very cheap brass wedding ring, polished to look like gold, because they had just pawned the real thing and didn't want their fella to know.

EDIT TO ADD: My dad would buy the brass rings back when the unfortunate wives had somehow sorted their finances out and redeemed their wedding ring from 'Uncle'.

Hi DS.....I do love these old sayings and stories.. my late mum had loads of them.

Happy Easter All......Ann

Thanks Mary for starting this thread.
I've enjoyed it all and thank you.
Wavertree Playground known as "The Mystery"was known as "The Mysog"..
Just love all these local names.
I hope the Easter Bunny brought something loaded with calories to you all.

Hi Tina ....Oh Yes but I ate way too much of the stuff..What Diet

Offf Rocky Lane where I lived... the trams ran down to Tuebrook was a high grassy slope and we used to call it The Plantation......The trams ran between the road and the plantation and we would come hurtling down on a bit of cardboard on snowy days and stop just short of the road ...no probs with Elf and Safety in those days

Ann

Hi!

Dickiesam's story brought back memories of my first job with Berry and Warmington who were just along the road in Fox St.. I remember going out to the cocoa rooms to get the lunch for the bosses. I also remember the shawlies from the market coming in to get replacement weights for their scales and paying from a roll of notes which they produced from an old sock which they carried in their aprons.

Heli.