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Date Posted: 13:28:30 03/20/06 Mon
Author: Ken Savage
Author Host/IP: 82.42.166.95
Subject: Re: Speke in the early days
In reply to: Gillian 's message, "Speke in the early days" on 12:17:45 02/24/06 Fri

Hi Gillian
Great to read your email. My family lived in Linner Road from 1939 so remember
St Christopher's from when it was a tent, through the wooden hut to the large Church
and then the new small one. It is true, every one bought a brick & no we didn't get it back,
but we did get one of the pews. We didn't even get a brick from our family house in Linner
Road when they knocked it down. The parishioners paid a lot of money to help build the
Church and were not even consulted about knocking it down. Thou I suppose it was cold
and draftee. I remember going to the first Midnight Mass when it was built, It was freezing
cold with braziers to keep us warm.

The Time Capsule was not disturbed, it is still there and the Statue is in the grounds of
the new church but the weather as got at it and the face as fallen off.

Dose anyone remember the bomb that fell outside the front of the old wooden Church
and didn't break anything not even the Statue.

Ken Savage

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[> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- Lillian Savage (happy), 23:11:36 02/12/12 Sun (124.177.177.146)

I remember Saint Christopher's school in the 1950's my teacher was Miss Oakley, my brother Peter was a prefect and sent me to her for the cane. Growing up in Speke was great, I lived in Upton Close till 1959 when we left to live in Australia, Peter used to take a gang of us to the Dam Woods were we would collect the broken branches off of the trees to build our bonfire, all the neighbors would keep the broken furniture and we used to compete with Upton Green to see who had the biggest, he also made a Guy Fork and made us go around knocking on doors asking a penny for the Guy he then wouls buy fireworks and sparkler's and share the around, it was a great time to be a kid we were hardly ever in side there was always something to do, playing cricket using the telegraph pole as the stumps, us girls used to whip our spinning tops along the pavement and the best was making a slide around the close when it snowed, my mum was always putting ashes from the fire on it. Does anybody remember the tent church in Upton Close. Some of the peopke I remember where Irene Margret and Ann Simpson, Tommy Lyons, Wally Jones, Charley Jaego, there where more boys than girls. I remember Lonnie Donegan arriving to visit his mum in Little Heath Road he was in a beautiful covertable car we had never seen anything like it. I went to All Hallows and got a big shock when I started school in Melbourne Australia they handed me a brown paper bag with a sandwich in it the bread was stale and then we had to go outside to eat in the cold, I was very upset and decided I was going back to Speke on the next boat, I have been home several times and have been back to Speke each time.

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[> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- Angela Thompson (nee Barton) (Everitt) (St Christophers church), 22:00:10 11/23/12 Fri (86.142.115.240)

I am now an Ex-pat and upon returning to Liverpool Speke we went to Stapleton Ave my mum and her brother & sister lived at 24 Stapleton Avenue across the way from St Christophers it was our haunt especially the social club.

My Mum told me that when they where building the foundations for the then new St Christophers church (not the new small one there now) But the big old one then the family dog died and my nan & brother took the dog over and buried her in the foundations of the church they would laugh about it.... they would say well, it's one way to get into heaven and she was consecrated as well as the ground she was buried in....I still remember this story to this day. Hope it brings a smile to your faces..it did to mine and I had to explain to my hubby why upon seeing the new small newly built St Christophers was I giggling away...Cripes, he said, do you think they would have come across her...Naaa, I said she would of been long gone, but they must have been flamin puzzled by the coat in the footings (they wrapped the dog in an old coat)if it survived which I doubt....

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[> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- Peter Locke, 12:15:02 12/19/12 Wed (92.21.189.254)

Hi Everyone, I used to live in 3B Ganworth rd which was a top flat, We moved there in the early 50s as I was born in 53, I dont remember much of Speke as we left in 63, I remeber growing up in a community of people that looked after each other & shared what they had, I only went back there once a year later as I was giving my family some stick about leaving, I was shocked to see what we had to live within, The day I went back I never saw anyone I knew, Whether it was because the also left I dont know, I now live in a small village in Buckinghamshire & happy in the fact that my parents Alec & Laura got it spot on From the age of 11ish I have grown up surrounded by fields rivers & lakes, Does anyone remember my family?? Have a wonderful Christmas & a Happy new year :)

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[> [> Re: Speke in the early days -- David Gillespie, 15:47:18 08/15/17 Tue (82.44.220.137)

I live in Speke now, 2017, was born here in 1967, love it. Went to St Christophers school. I always remember my first teacher, Miss Guinea. She called a fish coz I sat there chewing my tongue, haha. Wish i could go back for a day.

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