A couple of my mates went to Canada 10 years ago and not seen sight nor sound since Terry Johnson Ex Meols Cop 1974 ish,so if your out there give us a look in.jimmt-j;)

Three pics of Southport-Lord St,Promenade & Kings Gardens and Municipal Gardens. Pic taken from Kingsway roof. Municipal Gardens

just thought past spot was looking a bit lonely . Will be in Southport Sept 14 and 15 may bump into some of you then. What used to be next to the covered wagon ?.

Kingsway gardens Promenade 1960 & 2001 pic taken from roof top of Kingsway night club in 1960,pic taken from roof top of now Bliss night Club 3rd Oct 2001

Do any posters have any old photographs of the Ribble Bus Station as this was the place I first saw and fell in love with my late wife. Regards Mr-W-Edwards

Just a thought, North Meols Ltc is in the grounds of Meols Hall. We know it's been there around 100 years but not sure exactly how long. It would be nice to locate any pics at all or any info about the club around the 1900's. :)

As I have said in the Chat Spot, a visit to the "Dreams and Nightmares" exhibition at the Imperial War Museum yesterday led me to inspect the roll of honour of British volunteers who were killed fighting in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. To my surprise, I found the name of...

Although I have never visited this church which is located halfway up Meols Cop bridge many local people must of gathered there every sunday for year & years.Today 10/11/01 the church was being knocked down by local contractor Elias Smith(he came from one of the biggest familys in High Park).Some...

There is now a new website dedicated to Southport Past. www.southportpast.com As well as "then and now" photos, there are local articles, details of local books, history of some of our Business Select advertisers, examples of what was in the news 25 and 30 years ago, and obviously links to...

I think this pic should be in this forum A train standing in Crossens Station with Brockhouse in the background.

We have just updated the www.southportpast.com site with 70 photographs of Ainsdale. Most of them "then and now". Worth a look, even if you are not from Ainsdale.

Can anyone help me? I live in the USA. I am trying to locate a pen friend I had in the early 50s to early 60s. Her name was Ethel Hunt and she lived in Southport. She would be about 61 or 62 today. I don't have much information on her because I have lost all her letters. But I do know that...

About 20 of pics or so in our www.southportpast.com site - see 1932 in picture icons. These given to us by roving-eye of pictures then and now - but where now was 1932! Well worth a look

I started at Norwood Rd nursery this year. The teacher was Miss Marclew & the headmistress (who hated me) was Miss Price. I also stole my first kiss off Joy Tinsley, who was the midwife at the birth of my daughter Charlotte in 1997 (this town is too small). These really were the best days of my...

These pics are from 1983 and show why the new sea wall was built. This pic is at the north end of the Lake and the guy in the pic is my brother Chefjohno having trouble standing up.

Looking for anyone who attended St. Simons school in the early to mid 50s and may have known a student named Ethel Hunt. She lived on Heysham Road.

Anyone know any of my family - all deceased now so any info would be nice to hear. I was born in June 1955, mother Mary Ashcroft, who died when I was 5, she would have been 26 when she died. Brought up by my grandparents, Annie and Charles Ashcroft, farmers for the Higson family. Mothers...

Hi All Can anybody help? I'm trying to do some Family Research and need information relating to the people listed below, or details of their surviving relatives. All were the children of James Taylor and Alice Taylor (nee Marshall). James died 2/9/1946 and was buried at St Cuthberts...

re the opening of Southport Theatre, it was May 23rd. 1973. Building work at the time was not complete, but the theatre opened on that night. A full house on 23rd., I believe the following night there were less than twohundred in the audience! Morecambe and Wise were originally going to open the...

Doe's anybody remember Big June? She used to sing 'oh Diana ' around some of the bar's ,I often wonder if she still doe's it ,she was a good laugh.

I wonder if anyone remembers my grandfather Abe Hershon? We are trying to put together a family album and wonder if anyone out there has any photos or memories of him they would like to pass on to his grandchildren & Grt grandchildren? If so please get in touch, we would love to hear from you and...

Mr Rosie Roussel from Bakersfield California USA has asked me to help find his friend. Message reads : Hello, my name is Rosie Roussel. I raced a midget race car in England in 1948. I am trying to contact George Rimmer, "a race fan", living in Southport as of 1998. Please forward my e-mail...

My Mum who still lives in Churchtown is 90 today was born on the day the Titanic sank. My grandfather Thomas Mitchell of Railway Street was a cabinet maker who worked on the building of the Titanic at Harland & Wolf in Belfast. He took his family over to Belfast and my dad David who was born in...

I was looking through some old photos and thought this one might be of some interest. Who is this?

To whom it may concern! having left Southport a while back, (1982) I wanted to throw a few names out and see if anything turned up. Just to try and find out how things are going with people I used to know. In no particular order: Barry ?. (now here is a difficult one, I worked with him at...