EPW025195 ENGLAND (1928). The Cocoa Works and BRITO Margarine Works, Broad Green, 1928

Rocky Lane

Rocky Lane

Liverpool Corporation tram line to Roby. Closed by 1957. (The M62 now seems to run where the trams once did!)

Broad Green station, LNWR. (Still open)

Old Thomas Lane

Old Thomas Lane

This was a small cottage or outbuilding which housed a tiny shop known as "Macs" selling news papers, sweets and tobacco.

This became the site of Joseph Lucas Gas Tubine Equipment- Victor Works-in the late 1940s, later known as Lucas Aerospace until it moved to Wilson Road in Huyton in the 1980s. The boiler house chimney remained, and still had "COCOA" letters in the brickwork until the site was re-developed for housing in the 1990s. Part of the Lucas machine shop concrete floor subsided after heavy automatic machinery was installed. On investigation, hundreds of large sacks of cocoa were found below the foundations, causing the subsidance. I was an apprentice there from 1958 to 1963,then a Planning Engineer until I left in 1978.

The Abbey Pub, demolished in the late 1950s

Seymour Road, Liverpool 14

These cottages were demolished in the late 1950's, as they were derelict and Sarsfield Stonemasons built on the land and are still on this site in 2014

Jubilee Avenue, Liverpool 14

Hunter's Pies