DEXTER Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 I was time scaling when the area around there was demolished. I do have vivid dreams. Even in colour. I can remember going round the back around the old market hall area and a derelict building with pillars.i know there were derelict buildings still standing when I was a child as well. I wonder how dreams work.past or future events? How far back can you dream about. added 12 minutes later I was placing the old town hall as you go down to the right of the Parish church with the little row of shops on your right. As you got to the end that was where it was?. You then turned right that took you to the side of the market hall. My point was that the building could have been derelict for years?even after the new town hall was built. I know from family that my gran was in the new town hall when the tower was on fire. added 48 minutes later I don't know how many know about the books related to mysteries related to old areas of Lpool.I know one writer details apparently going round an area.Then returning some time later and it being different? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Dexter are you thinking about this ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEXTER Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Remember 5he alleyway well!. Looking across your pic HORT.right at end then left that's where I believe the old town hall used to be. Where you see the shop to the left was a nice little cafe mum used to go to.As you came out the alley to left was a derelict building.Whether true or not?was lead to believe it used to be communist party building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 The original Town Hall was in Market St, St Helens Old Town Hall and New Market Place, St Helens, c1887 - St Helens Community Archive: celebrating local heritage WWW.STHELENSCOMMUNITYARCHIVE.ORG.UK Old Town Hall and New Market Place, St Helens, c1887 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRANK Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 (edited) The 1849 map shows the town hall in Exchange St off Bridge St. on the site of the later market hall. View map: Lancashire CVIII (includes: Bold; Burtonwood; St Helens.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 MAPS.NLS.UK Edited December 26, 2022 by FRANK add Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Dexter remembers it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEXTER Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I have read some notes from Tom Slemen.Where people have gone round an area in lpool. Then some time later tried to find the same location and cannot as they remembered it was. Why I note about the pillars ?I didn't even know what It was but I had a location in my mind where it was.Then when going through old pics etc on this site Obv the building was demolished but was there anything built in its place ? If ut was a retro thought.How far can you retro? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Does anyone else remember things that never happened? I've questioned some things ingrained in my head that could not possibly have happened. Trying to analyse it I believe I've had the same impressions imprinted in my head during different fevers and until I questioned them took them for real. For example, I was convinced I had played in the Middlesex 7's. Recently I questioned this and took the trouble to check all the teams that have taken part. Unfortunately there's no evidence for my two 50m+ interception tries. I can remember the tries but nothing about the changing rooms etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyll Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 21 hours ago, kizzy said: The original Town Hall was in Market St, St Helens Thanks Kizzy for clearing that up, now I realise where Dexter was talking about and I apologise to Dexter & BJL who had already posted a Photo of it, but it didn't register in my brain. 🤔 On saying that, I don't remember it as a Town Hall, but I do remember The Old Market Hall very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizzy Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 (edited) I don't remember it either, it was long gone before my time but I've got some books with all those old photos of St Helens, (never noticed the pic had been posted earlier). Edited December 27, 2022 by kizzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted December 27, 2022 Author Share Posted December 27, 2022 This is a contemporary drawing from 1839 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Nowt to do with the Town Hall but does the Palatine Arcade still exist in Church Street? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEXTER Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Yep it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Market Hotel when it changed its name to Lincoln Square 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Another example of failed name changes. Although some name changes have stuck - like the difficult to pronounce Brasserie Chalon for the former Angel. Unlike the alienating Anfield Arms - which sensibly reverted to Cowley Hill Vaults. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Brasserie Chalon is still called that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Like I said - it stuck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Pilks City Road Works 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 1897 - Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Day celebrations in Victoria Square, St Helens Horse and cart on Liverpool Road Haydock, c1890s 1890. Eccleston Hill Pumping Station - 1890. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Church St. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEXTER Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I've just posted on other thread showing old post office. Looking down church st on the one above.Was asking about if any pics of shops on same side as post office.? Theres plenty opp.Wanted to see anything round Foundry st?There were shops and businesses around that area..salisbury st.old Sally army,doss house,place that repaired fair stuff like dodgems etc. added 2 minutes later I've been inside the old eccleston hill PS. They had changed the pump eqpt pumps when I went in in the 1960s.However the MASSIVE AREA WHERE THE WHEEL WOULD HAVE BEEN WAS INSIDE. I couldnt imagine how it looked when it was in TURNING!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Jeff_Leo Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 I think it has been converted to a residential address now. There is a row of new build detached houses next to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 West Park School rugby team about 1964. Woden is on the back row fourth from the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRANK Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Peter? Monk 3rd from left front row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORT Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 James Lawrenson second left back row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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