This is how I remember Liverpool from my youth. I hardly recognize it now 🙁

Great city great years loved the 70s in Liverpool and my youth ✌🏻

Born, there in 63, moved away to Glasgow then Lancaster 66/68. Used to visit my gran there about this time every 3 months or so at Princess Drive L12. Still remember the sights, smells and sounds of Lime Street, and those whining green buses as if it were yesterday.

Liverpool is a great city i was there 2 years ago and the people were so friendly

Such a vibrant city with character and characters. Oh how I miss these days when people had time to chat and have a laugh.

My heart is my liverpool. I was aged 3 when this film was made and just love the nostalgia of Liverpool...

Love this footage of a Liverpool that once was…Worked for Elder Dempsters and Ocean Fleets in the 70s and 80s..Shipping out of west Huskie and Canada Docks..Liverpool was always a good run ashore..Love the scousers..👌

In the 1970s I used to go to Liverpool, every night from the West Midlands I was a wagon driver same route every night off the M6 made my way into Liverpool through Liverpool to Albert docks, over the years met some lovely people wish I could go back to those times,

The architects have destroyed parts of Liverpool, pulled down Georgian and Victorian buildings and put up crap,

I love ❤love ❤love ❤ Liverpool 👍👍 one of my favourite places….such a privilege to see this footage from the early 70s 😊

I just LOVE Liverpool, and am going back there for a few days next week. I hope I'll be back there permanently fairly soon.

No mobile phones, No Just Eat Mopeds racing around the City, No Ketwig UnderArmour wearing little pricks with there hoods up standing on corners.

Goodness me. I'm suddenly 15 years old again watching this. Thanks for putting this on.

I'm from a small town in New Zealand. After the war many men from Liverpool came here to help build the Tasman paper mill. There is a street here now called Liverpool st. Many of them went home after the job but some did stay for good and had family's here. Half of the mill closed last week and the 3rd and last paper machine was turned off for good. It seams the world doesn't want that much paper any more.

Lovely, lovely city, regardless of the era. Such rich history too and many lovely trivia items. First banana ever to arrive in the UK - arrived in Liverpool! LOL

I just LOVE this city, and yes, you've included some marvellous shots.

Half a Century ago ..................... How time flies !

This was made in the year that, as a southerner, I first visited Liverpool. Although I've been there many, many times since, this is how I remember my experience of that time. I even got to ride on the top deck of one of the City's green double-deckers. It has changed so much, even in the last 10 or 15 years, that the place is almost unrecognisable.

I was 17 & working in Reeces in Parker St, next door was Owen Owens, with clothes shop 'Sexy Rexys' facing, bought my first pair of bags from there, £7.50 a week I was earning, gave my mam £4 housekeeping pw, 10 Number 6 ciggies would last me 2 days, rest of the £3.50 went on lemonade, sweets & I had to save each week to buy any clothes. 😊

I was 18 when this was filmed and remember Liverpool like that.

Wasn’t expecting that Runcorn bit at the end. I’m a guy who grew up in Runcorn but I now live in Liverpool. It’s ironic now how Runcorn is a hole and Liverpool isn’t too bad in places!

lovely shots of the city,

I was 30 then great city i love my home city there no city like it we love all who come to vis❤it are great city my ashes are to be spread at the peir head ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

My dad was born in Beaufort st and went to st Malachys, , all gone now except a slither of bewey, RIP MY BEAUTIFUL DADDY miss you, and they played your funeral song except your was on the bagpies xxxx

i love Liverpool always have! looking forward to my next visit

The city of my birth and the year I was born...it’s almost unrecognisable compared to what it is now...the old bull ring has been converted into student accommodation...the flyover is no longer more. The docks are now vibrant and thriving, not the neglected run down area that we see in this footage. I notice there were not too many cars on the road in those days either. I guess with technology and modernisation things like community spirit and children playing out in the street, have all but ceased to be...all in the name of progress and change, but quite sad in lots of other aspects. No matter what though, there’s always someone to sing a song and tell a joke in this wonderful city...a city oozing talent and political awareness...a sporting prowess almost second to none...a sharp witted humour like no other in planet earth...a lot has changed in 46 years...not to mention a few grey strands!!...but lovely to remember and reminisce♥️x

Great to see, I was born in the Women’s Hospital that year and lived in Castlefields, it was lovely growing up there then. We moved back to Liverpool, years later in my first car I took a trip down memory lane and drove to Runcorn, it looked scruffy.

No women with ridiculous tattoos, no people looking obsessively at their smartphone every 5 seconds and no boy racers tearing up and down the city streets. How times change. I wish I had a time machine as I wouldn't bother coming back!! Today's society is introspective. People obsess over technology and spend more time on-line than actually meeting real people. Sad world!

"The Runcorn Master Plan" lmao

Big fan thank you very much.

Hey, all. Remember when there were real police on the beat. Remember the time when you stepped out of line and you got a clip around the ear. You couldn't go home and tell your parents because you'd get another one. You could go up to a cop and ask them anything. You can't now they're all stuck in cars outside Mcdonalds. This was a time when you'd go down to the water front and all you could smell was fresh doughnuts being made in the old bus terminus. Ah, those were the days.

If you live in this great city or just visiting you need to get "Secret Liverpool, an unusual guide" by Michael Keating. It doesn't cover the usual haunts but those you may have never known about.

Crazy how people had to see in black and white

The old days wen we all the docks open great time my grandad worked a garston docks

Some great views of Garston and it’s fume belching gas works. Yes the new town concept around Liverpool was an utter disaster. Breaking up communities, it left Liverpool like a crater with everything on the periphery. It has recovered now thank goodness.

1- didn’t see one obese person 2-hardly any cars , easy parking 3- no mobiles (obviously) , and people actually having conversations, not addicted to their phones like today .

So much has happened over the last 50 years

Left in'69, still a teenager. Worked all my life in the outback...never returned.

Lived in sefton park in 1972 1973 old g House split into flats full of students great times great parties

why have 6 people give this a thumbs down? whats wrong with it exactly? please explain

Lots of flat caps and mini skirts.....and thats just the dockers.

thks ,fond memories of then ,i was 7 in 73 born in granby

The year I was born. Looked cleaner then

COOL

take's me back

I can't believe that I was the same age as those teenage girls at that time, use to love shopping there with my mates.

Great. Thanks. (2:55 ... btw ... could have done with more volume\subtitles ...)

Are those big flats the Bull Ring?

BEAUTIFULL PEOPLE KIND AND WARM TO IRISH WHEN NEEDED. EXCEPT ORANGE TORY UNCHRISTIAN SOULS, BUT REAL LIVERPOOL MERSEYSIDE WITTY ULTRA CLEVER EQUAL GENEROUS TOUGH AND FORWARD THINKING IRISH PEOPLE LOVE SO MUCH OF BRITAIN I KNOW HARD TO BELIEVE BUT NO PLACE LIKE LIVERPOOL. PLUS I'M A IRISH LEEDS SUPPORTER BUT LOVE THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL ME AND ME DA HAD SOME CRAIC IN THAT CITY ON OUR WAY OVER AND BACK FROM IRELAND I USE TO LOVE OUR NIGHTS THERE AS MUCH AS BACK HOME AND SWEAR TO GOD I THINK HE DID AS WELL

The people of Runcorn still haven't recovered.

Brilliant

It looked worse then than it does now. All I remember growing up in Liverpool in the 80s was constant skinhead gangs lurking around, crime and litter everywhere. The smells in town were disgusting, shops were often bordered up and the economy was awful.

I was a 10 year old in Garston in 1973 and remember Adults talking about social engineering that was going on. I think I can see it now. The engineers separated close neighbours from streets to away from what they knew. PS how is my childhood town doing now?

Wonderful

Clearing the slums was a dreadful mistake. Should of re vamped everything.

Love u ❤❤

Who wanted to live in Runcorn new town ,they were forced ,like previous migrations to Kirby and Hazelwood Those houses should have been renovated not knocked down it was wrench from community.

Runcorn new town office used to be in front of lime St station before it all was knocked down

Those platform boots

Is this where Lee Scott got the runcorn plans sample from on Wh1plash

I went to Liverpool once and managed to keep my wallet and wheels...great city.

Ranelagh Street at 0.44 is pretty much the same today as is the littering by the kid at 1.09.

I find this calm and soothing music funny because when you think of Liverpool, you think of Scousers with loud pitch voices saying "Wanna Bevvy?", "Gowin dan the ozzy", "It'z Chocka" or "Ah right Lid, gotta ciggy?". Nice music though.

Who was singing the song?

Just as I remembered sooty buildings, buildings part way torn down...but it was fun for kids especially boys playing in those buildings....me older brother would look for coins in them under floorboards,old and new...I lived just off wavertry road on nuttal street,now gone but replaced with new houses....

2.52 that factory is still in use

Who else is here from John Spence high school after the history lesson

my aunt is very sick :-(

Real nice natural looking girls with no ugly tattoos. What are they thinking of today sad ruining their bodies .Just wait till their around 50

Everyone complaining about people using phones nowadays, what are you enjoying this lovely video on? There’s benefits to both

Congratulations on an extremely interesting film, made all the more enjoyable with appropriate music. Is it 10 or 15 minutes of fame we are all meant to have? Well, I have had four seconds of my allocation from 1:26 to 1:30 strolling down Church Street

When decimelisation came in, our Nan said we were robbed over night!

There was very little government in the lives of the people back then. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case.

song?

Beautiful city, but that song was depressing!+!!!!

I was born there in late 50s and I used to take fuses out of Nazi bombs that fell on Liverpool

Wow. No fake tans in Liverpool

I was born and bred in Speke but escaped South years ago. It's the never-ending newspaper reports that prove it was a smart move: guy shot and killed in Woolton, guy run over and killed by his own car outside John Lennon airport, Dunlop's Speke social club burnt to the ground, and kids throwing rocks at a coffin-carrying hearse. Jeez.

Rich culture

The year I was born, Look how clean the city centre is? Crap and rubbish everywhere now chewing gum and dog ends all over the pavements, people don’t give a damn.

My intention is to refilm this as a picture-in-picture of these old scenes with how they are today. Could I ask for help in locating the camera positions of the scenes, please? My research version is at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rN6nmNh7mqispn0.html where I'm asking for locations to be left in the comments, please. Many thanks to everyone.

Anyone here to do home learning from Bishop?

I am a true Scouser. Born between the 2 Cathedrals.

Runcorn!

The day's when my dad used to sit on the bog reading the echo with the door not even closed properly (locked) the dirty b*****d me mum used to scream at him but he'd just laugh like Jim Royal "Oh! I've been working all day leave me alone will yerr can't have 10minutes peace in this bleedin house! But he'd sh*t himself when he could hear a visitor knocking on the front door you could hear the panic as what sounded like the echo getting thrown to the floor as he'd slam it to put the lock on and they were the day's when you'd have to use the echo to wipe your a*se coz you'd run out of bog roll and there was no such thing as bio degradable stuff and the only way you'd know was when you pull the chain or handle and then the water got higher and higher as you pray to god for it to stop' because you used too much paper so you had to wait a few minutes or shout your dad to unblock it with the carrier bag over his hand and forearm trick then he'd call you all the smelly so and so's in the world as he'd say to everyone whose laughing in the living room especially if the neighbour was there " Oh! It's only last night dinner leave him alone for f*ck sake! but we all laugh about it now' them days we're hard but everyone helped each other out "like the borrow out of the back of the television (if you know what I mean?) Then a fella called the tele bank man would come about every month and there was only a few 50p pence pieces in it but he'd just smirk but he'd know what had been going on he wasn't stupid although the little brother or sister would say 'we don't really use the tele in our house then they get a mouth full after he left for making it so blatantly obvious what had been happening, some people even had a brain wave (only a scousers one) with the old stiff wire trick putting into that box at the back then pulling it up and down Clicking it like mad so the machine though it was receiving silver food but it wasn't " it was getting a bit of wire with a hook on the end" i was only a kid back then and it was just another way to survive but then for some Mysterious reason the TV would come back on but went off about 12 with some dog and girl smiling at you because the TV was about to start going BEEEEEB all night no ch4 or ch5 back then just teletext' and the TV had to get turned over as we'd call it by turning a button or dial plus black and white no colour either then everyone use to phone everyone or tell anyone in the street that a TV detector van was around and to turn the television off >it didn't even exist it was just a van with a aerial on the top' we had community centers "the Como we called it" it had a disco it was somewhere to go and have a game of pool with your mates you could even bump into someone without getting stabbed and you fought with your bare hand's to sort things out because you was a 'sh*t house' if you didn't but them days have well gone because its a knife and a pit bull that's the 'must have thing ' but not everyone in today's younger generation are bad it's those who wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes during our teenage years who are the bad apples, as little kids having places you could go your mum and dads knew you was safe and having a laugh trying to look boss with your sh*t clothes on that you mum bought you along with the smell of Brute 45 that you got for your birthday or Christmas that's now long gone I think the Brute 45? you'd look back on old photos and ask your mum How could you let you go out dressed like that even though it looked alright to her,we had discos in those community centres that stopped then close about 10-10.30pm - not many around these days our local one had to be demolished after lasting over 35 years because someone set fire to it even though it was still getting used, in the past because it was a struggle some mum's mainly would go the market in town to get shoes for your dads or even yourself if you was unlucky and grab one off a pile of hundreds with a number inside and say to the man with a leather bag strapped to himself ( errrm excuse me love have you got the other one to this one please) being a kid I was like saying what's she talking about then the man would disappear under the pile and pop back up with crap looking shoes for your dad then you'd start p*ssing yourself laughing because you've seen what your dads got for his feet for the next 12months but then she'd wipe the smile off your face as she show's you the one's she got you for school when you wasn't looking then you'd insist that you wasn't going to put them on then the word's was "that's all I can afford so you wear what I give ya!" So you had to go to school with shoes on with numbers inside made with a black ink marker thank god it was only the time you was still in the infant's, It was the day's when some people would even have a Polaroid negative by the Lecky metre for some reason or something called a U bend i think it was called that had loads of tape on it "not sure what they was for though" until me dad told me to go away so as a kid you do until the sound of bzzzz"BOOM" Ahaà! Then he came into the living room the colour of boiled sh*te and that's how he learned how to do certain thing's (the hard way) some old Neighbor had one to get the weeds from between the paving flag's " you'd say > what's that but he used to say Oh! Just a bit of wire he'd had for years and smile! The ice cream man would come about 8-9 or even 10pm by ours ringing his bell because the music thing was banned after 6pm he'd not just sell ice cream but cigarette's a (lossy) I've never smoked but my old mates did but back then I think it was just to make themselves look dead hard but now half of them can hardly breath and the flock wall paper was the in thing "well in our house it was with green,Brown and yellow the colour you'd see and a carpet if you had the money with the Paisley pattern in it,even families interacted with each other not like today's world as everyone is transfixed on mobile phones as their is practically silence in the house until someone Say's something about somebody else on social media (something I don't use or bother with) it cause's more trouble than a fox in a chicken farm,OK I'm on this because the kids have took over TV so I've come upstairs because i was told about this video, Anyway that's all from me but I'd like to thank my mum+dad for bringing me into this world even though society,politics and technology is a lot different and in some cases 'taking over' (automation, human rights and crazy politicians making life a misery for many people in this brilliant city) Oh! Sorry for bringing politics into it but I've just seen that Duncan Smith on the tele! Brilliant little video keep them coming,

xx

Such a bitter, sad song. Liverpool has changed so much for the better though.

liverpool with irish song....really!

Liverpool (+rest of UK for that matter) today: Traffic jams and fat people everywhere

And then the posh architect came up with Kirkby...🙄

Runcorn not Liverpool. Ya not a scoucer.

that was a nice looking city... what the hell happened

Not a Muslim in sight.

Life before the mass third world invasion.

Scouse birds were always elite. The dirtiest in bed. Well done scousers

Enjoyed the video but not the awful music

Graeme Sounes Alan Hansen Kenny Dalglish Kevin Keegan Stevie G👌👌👌⚽

Depressing. The architecture compared to the rest of Europe was n still is abysmal

And we,ll hang the kopites one by one on the banks of the royal blue mersey...love the soundtrack

Still it’s the same