Mere Lane

This is a long shot, but I have just found a relative who lived in 74 mere lane , he died in 1918 , but he had a wholesale grocers and dried salt buisiness and left over £2000 which I though must of been quite as lot then . Would love to see if anyone has access to a photo of said shop or house. His name was jOHN TUNLEY.

They load in the order they were posted and so the images should appear further down the reel. A bit irritating, but it was the the way the site was originally set up. Hope it doesn't spoil your search experience to much. We now have almost 4,000 images on the site, pretty much the definitive record of the way it was in our famous old streets.

Hi Ken The two top posts for Mere Lane do not show the photos they refer to - I've noticed the same for some other locations. Is there a glitch? Kind regards Pete.

Corner of Mere Lane and Leadenhall street Pre !945

7 Mere Lane before it was the Derry Club. It used to be Dowdles shop in the 1940s

A moody shot of the former Everton Library, looking down Mere Lane from St Domingo Road,

A moody picture of Mere Lane. I’m sure many people will remember New Years Eves during the 1950s early 60s when crowds would gather on the triangle visible through the haze near the lamppost, to see in the New Year. Old and young used to congregate with a pocket full of coal and maybe a wee dram (not to be drunk there but used to “first foot” neighbours and friends on the way home!). At midnight precisely all hell would break loose as every ship in the docks and on the river would sound off their horns and sirens. What a din. Happy days!

Mere Lane. Cinema and the pit.playground. I remember every Saturday Matinee when we would part with our tanner to spend the afternoon watching the likes of Tom Mix, Roy Rogers (“King of the Cowboys”), Hoppalong Cassidy, (Buster Crabbe’s) Flash Gordon, Laurel & Hardy, or Abbot and Costello, all on lack and white. (Am I still allowed to say that, or should I say monochrome?) I remember being taken to the Empire to see the Roy Rogers Wild West show, with shooting tricks and Trigger his horse doing all sorts of obedience stuff. In the 50s the playground in the Pit was enlarged to cover the entire block up to Ledenhall St. But no soft landings here. It was all crushed cinder surfaces; so after the Saturday matinees, you either arrived home with a little biting friend, or bloody knees after falling off one of the apparatuses, that included: parallel bars, a couple of slides, 3 sets of swings, a large hobby horse, seesaws, monkey ladders, witches cap and merry go roundabouts, and climbing ladders

Mere Lane towards the Pit.

I lived at 56 Mere Lane in my student days (mid 1970s). We rented from Mrs Elsie Brazendale who then lived in Childwall, but her sister lived next door at No 58. I distinctly remember the old houses that used to be opposite. The first time I went was to visit a group of friends who were already living there. We went into the house early evening then a couple of hours later we went out to the pub (the Sefton which I think was on the corner of Robson Street and Vienna Street). As we came out of the house, the derelict houses opposite were well ablaze.

Mere Lane as many will remember it.

Another shot of the famous and historic Mere Lane Pit.

I'd love to see a photograph of 7 Mere Lane in the 1930s/40s. It was a shop then until it was damaged by the blitz. That's when we went to live there. the shop windows were replaced with corrugated metal sheets in our time; but I'd love to have seen it in its original form. has anybody got any old photos that were passed down from their parents?

Looking down Mere Lane in the 1960s towards Breckfield Road North with the Bingo just visible on the right.

An excellent Then & Now comparison of Mere Lane by Jimmy Johnson, first uploaded to the Heyworth Street Facebook platform.

Mere Lane at Landsdowne Place.

Mere Lane at Monk Street.

A clearer shot of the Mere Lane Pit that is featured with a slightly broader frame further down this reel.

The Liverpool Building Material and Cement business next to the cinema at the bottom of Mere Lane.

An Edwardian lady on Mere Lane in 1902.

A lone car parks outside the old Mere Lane Cinema.

Another slightly broader shot of the top of Mere Lane.

Bottom of Mere Lane opposite the Pit.

Busy day for cars on Mere Lane.

Distinctive chequered brick houses on Mere Lane.

Many memories stirred by these photos. I was at St George's school from 1952 to 1958. I recall every Thursday going to the church for service. Harvest Festival was my favourite seeing all the loaves baked by Watt's the bakers. Going for warm scouse pies at Watt's also.

Looking up towards Heyworth Street at its top end, Mere Lane looks a sad sight during the 1960s clearances. Picture thanks to Irene Delaney Edgar of Netherfield Road and Surrounding Area Facebook page.

Mere Lane Picture House in 2018 - the lovely decorated façade has been destroyed.

Mere Lane Picture House in the 1980s (?) when it was a bingo hall.

Mere Lane picture house in 1937. It looks like a truck fest is in progress! A horse and cart edges out between the vehicles. You can see that the film being shown inside the cinema was "The Invisible Ray" starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

The bottom of Mere Lane.

The Mere Lane Picture House opened in 1916, the last Liverpool cinema opened in World War 1. It and once held 1,050 people, but closed in 1992. While I'm interested in this picture, I'm also fascinated by the tall contraption in the foreground which was one of those boxes in which you smashed the glass and pulled the handle to beckon the fire brigade. Kids often abused these, just to see a red engine turning up. They were prominent in those days before everyone had phones.

A moody picture of the Mere Lane Pit, remembered by many kids, taken from Granton Road. This was at the junction with Breckfield Road

The frontage of the Mere Lane cinema. I only attended once, as a small boy watching a cowboy picture. The Indians surrounded a cabin where someone like Davy Crockett was hold up. Davy escaped by lifting a floorboard and and crawling out into the nearby woods. My childhood imagination deemed that I actually thought he had managed to get out into Mere Lane. I probably got my mum to buy me a Davy Crockett hat that week from Woolies.

An atmospheric image looking across the road towards the Mere Lane Picture House. It could accommodate 1050 people and was opened in 1916, closing in 1963. It became a Bingo Hall, then a snooker Hall and even a sports centre. It was the last Liverpool cinema to be opened before World War 1.

The little park or pit at the bottom of Mere Lane.

Some great memories from Kenneth Farrington. I well remember the Boys Brigade Band marching from the Mere Lane area. While I went to Major Lester School on Everton Valley I was often in and around Mere Lane and St George's Church and school as a member of the church choir and the school youth club. I'm still heavily connected with St George's and stage my annual Everton & Scottie Road street reunion there every July. Our 2019 gathering will be out tenth and promises to be very special so please come and join us. More details on this site nearer the time.

Mere Lane holds so many memories it being so close to my Leadenhall Street home. It was the route to my primary school, St Georges C of E and also the venue for my local Boys Brigade, the 38th Liverpool company which was situated in a building at the junction of Lansdowne Terrace I think. I spent much of my formative years here and have much to be grateful for to the leaders who provided much needed leisure activities along with discipline which set me up for a lengthy career in the bus service industry that stretches nearly 50 years including over 30 years as an elected trade union representative. Thanks to the Boys Brigade I saw placed which would have been well beyond my reach with an annual summer camp to Criccieth in Wales one of the standout memories. Mere Lane was also the location of the local picture house and I recall on several occasions standing outside waiting for an adult to accompany me into a movie with a 15 rating. Happy Days!

Mere lane

The Merebank pub on the corner of Mere Lane and Heyworth Street