Colin: "It used to be packed in the summer. You’d get a lot of office workers in there having their dinner, shop workers and we used to go there when we were kids. I remember when you used to ...

It was not a very well tended, you know, it wasn’t like Abercromby Square with lashings of shrubs and so on. It was very much a sort of annual planting type layout but the centre of it, the ba...

The only still standing building in this whole area where the bombs had hit was our hardware warehouse which stood up like a sore thumb and you could see obviously from Burnyeats all the way a...

The Pig and Whistle is Covent Garden off Chapel Street, it’s there (indicates on a map). It’s all on its lonesome now; the area beside it is yet another demolition site car park. I don’t know ...

"Every other bank in Liverpool was Martins. I mean a lot of banks existed, most of them with head offices in London, William Deacons with a head office in Manchester, but Martins, before its takeov...

"It was a bar that was used by people that worked in the stores and therefore tended to be people in the fashion trade and people who were theatrical who were appearing at the Royal Court or the Pl...

This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA RR1087/20)

"Exchange Station was in those days, of course, a surface station because it was one of the main line terminals. So you'd get a steam train which would take you in from the Wigan line into Liverpoo...

My memories of Central Station were that the trains still ran not underground and the line went straight out, it served Central England and that’s why it was probably called Central. We went o...