Melbourne Street

Melbourne Street kids 1940

Geoff. I remember you and your family well at number 4. I recall your dad was one of the fist to get a car in the street.Great days.

Hi Ken I remember Melbourne street as a kid, I am 66 now, think my mum and dad lived in No4 Melbourne street Nancy and Sydney Chadwick, I remember the shop over the road because with my pocket money I bought a load of chewing gum, stuffed it all in my mouth, I got toothache my dad rushed me to the dentist to have a tooth removed.

The shop on the corner of Netherfield Road North/Mitylene Street is the Scotts grocery store, run by the wonderful Miss Hill. This shop was across the road from the bottom of Melbourne Street. I would be sent there on messages most days, often to buy half a dozen cracked eggs and a bag of broken biscuits. I was always told to put it on the bill, something Mrs Hill did willingly, aware that the parents of the area would always pay up when the wages came in every Friday. This shop brings back so many happy memories for me.

My grandmother Muriel Stewart Mundy was born in 1894 at the home of her parents John and Mary Mundy of 69 Melbourne Street. John Mundy was awarded the British Empire Medal at the end of WW2. He worked on the Liverpool docks for more than 50 years. He died in 1947. 69 Melbourne St. was damaged during the Blitz in WW2 and the family had to move out while it was repaired.

Brilliant picture. This was my family's local before the clearances, standing almost directly opposite our street Melbourne which is now, inexplicably, called Patmos Street. Patmos was actually further up the hill between Northumberland Terrace and Cicero Terrace. This always irritates me every time I drive along Netherfield Road and pass the site of the old Cumberland pub. It was one thing allowing the bulldozers to wipe out our old streets in the Sixties and another further erasing memories of the famous Melbourne Street with this council naming error. Anyway, having got that off my chest, thanks for this wonderful image. My granddad Adam Wareing on my mothers side and her brothers Joe,John, George, Adam Jnr and Bobby would have all been regulars in the Cumberland, during and after the war. Just before the pub itself was knocked down, I managed to take my son in for a final pint and make a toast to all those regulars, including my granddad, for whom this was once a home from home. On the opposite Mitylene Street corner once stood a famous local grocery shop where I would be sent for half a dozen cracked eggs and a bag of broken biscuits, always told to put it on the bill, My mother May Rogers would always pay up, along with the other customers, at the end of the week when husbands handed over their wages. Interesting days when there was clearly a very different definition of poverty.

Hi ken My family were all born on Melbourne St, 1930s to 1960s. Howgate & Taylor. If anyone has any memories of them I, d love to hear them.

Used to visit my great aunt Kate at no. 34, with my mother & sister in the fifties up until she died in 1960 aged 87, so she didn't have the upheaval of being moved elsewhere. I remember having to get two buses from Waterloo & then the long drag up the road, so steep! The house had a long dark passageway to the back parlour, this had a large black cooking range where Kate used to sit near to keep warm. Only a small back yard where the outside 'lav' was. There was also a cellar visible from the front but never asked what was down there! Wasn't ever keen on going to the house as it was dark & depressing & I often used to sit on the front step rather than going in!

Mike. Regarding your Melbourne Street memory below, I will review my files and see if I can update you on Melbourne Street from 1915 on and what the area might have been like at that time. Researching your family tree can be an inspiring and surprising thing. People went through a lot and it could affect their characters. If you give me a couple of days I will upload something.

Dear Ken, I'm afraid that I don't have any memories of Melbourne Street, but my father, Michael Desmond Connor, was born at 66 Melbourne Street on 9 September 1915. He never spoke in any detail about his time there, but he did tell me that he left school when he was 13 and worked in a nearby furniture store, and joined the Royal Navy when he was 15 years old. I don't think he had a happy childhood, as he never spoke about it. I have just had my 70th birthday and I want to find out more about my family's history so I can pass it on to my daughter and any future grandchildren. I recently met a 93 year old aunt, who married my father's younger brother. She confirmed that my grandfather was a bully, and that this was the reason my Dad left home at 15. I don't want to dig up family dirt, but I do want to know more about where my father was born and the history of the area. Dad served in the Royal Navy from 1930 to 1946. He had a number of jobs including running a village shop and post office in the Peak District. He eventually retired to Heysham overlooking Morecambe Bay. Any help and advice that you can give me to help me with my research will be very gratefully received. Regards, Mike Connor

This unusual postcard would have dropped through the letterbox of my grandparents Adam and Ethel Wareing's house, 8 Melbourne Street, during World War Two, telling them that two of their sons George (left) and John (right) had met up in Cairo and were both fine. The card shows the Sphinx and one of the great pyramids. The Sphinx had the head of a human and the body of a lion, fittingly symbolism for all of our boys who were fighting overseas at that time.

This is George Moorcroft, our neighbour, who lived with his wife Ruth and children Ray, Viv and Paul at 10 Melbourne Street. George was a great character who worked in the press hall at the Liverpool Echo. The Moorcrofts remain great friends, even though our street was demolished circa 1961.Once again, iIt highlights how close our community was.

Adam Wareing and his family lived in 8 Melbourne Street in the 1940s and 1950s. He is proudly pictured here in his back garden with daughters May and Ada.

Melbourne Street covered in snow in the 1950s. As kids we would be out there straight away, turning the steep slope into a long ice slide. No one complained. It was kids and fun before health and safety in those days.

Melbourne Street about to prepare for 1953 Coronation celebrations.

Melbourne memories. My mother May Rogers is seen here (centre) outside our house, 8 Melbourne Street, with my grandmother Emily Rogers (left) and my Aunty Phyl (right). My sister June, centre with her pram, clearly did not react to the call to smile for the birdie, looking for reassurance from mum as she turns around. My cousin Linda is front left, the Rogers clan happy on a summer's day circa 1958/59.

34 Melbourne Street: Family Phillips My mother lived at this address with her parents & brother as a child. She left the family home in 1933 when she married my father. Later my great uncle & great aunt Catherine Lee lived there. She is listed at this address in your book in 1960, she died a spinster in September of the same year.

Melbourne Street back entry on Victoria Settlement side circa 1962 as demolition unfolds.

Not sure of date

Looking down Melbourne Street in the 1960s

Melbourne Street backed onto the former Victoria Settlement. Here childhood friends Ken Rogers, Ray Moorcroft, Joyce Sawyers and John Butler sit in the sun on the wall of number 5.

This was a steep street between Netherfield Road and St Domingo Road. Great neighbours and a wonderful old community. I was proud to have lived their until demolition. Just to mention the street reminds me of my wonderful parents May and Harry Rogers and my grandparents Adam and Ethel Wareing.