Colour photos of Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool, in the 1950's and 60's.
Available in HD.
These photos were all taken by my dad, Les Rogers, using a 35 mm camera with early Kodachrome film.

Slide descriptions by reference number:-

197 - Walton Hall Park in 1959. The round flower bed was known as "the wedding cake". Beyond it is the distinctive white bandstand.

011 - Walton Hall Park in July 1957, showing the dry bed of the Big Lake, the central boathouse, and beyond it the Small Lake. The Big Lake remained dry for many years, with grass growing on its bed. When I was a kid I didn't even realise that it was a lake, I thought it was just a low-level field. The leaks were eventually repaired and the lake was refilled, and for some years after there were rowing boats for hire. The lake and islands now support much bird life.

101-1 and 101-2 - An Orange Lodge parade along Queens Drive.

127 - July 1958. The snack bar on the corner of Denbigh Road and Rice Lane, also known as "The Mona Cafe". This was owned and run by my grandparents, Jack and Mona Rogers, selling snacks, drinks, pepsi, coke, sweets, cigarettes, etc. Next door was Jack Stiles bicycle shop.

164 - There were no bright sodium lamps illuminating the main roads in the 1950s, just ordinary filament bulbs, hanging from wires, which used to swing about in the wind. There were originally more shops to the left, but these were destroyed by bombing in WW2.

247 - Looking down Rice Lane towards Walton Hospital, on a Winters day in 1959. Orange "Belisha Beacons" and wire-strung street lights.

276 - This photo was taken during the construction of the British Rail Staff Association club in Denbigh Road. In the background is the Walton-on-the-Hill locomotive shed, and on the far left the Coaling Stage. Beyond that were allotments and Walton Hall Park.

326 - This was taken from the top of the tunnel at Walton-on-the-Hill station, in July 1961. Passenger services had long ceased by this time, with only the remains of the waiting room on the platform. To the right is Walton-on-the-Hill engine shed. To the left are coal and goods sidings. In the distance is the white Dunlop factory building. Beyond that was the Walton Triangle containing more railway sidings.

327 - Down on the platform at Walton-on-the-Hill station, July 1961. A goods train has just emerged from the tunnels.

331 - July 1961. Walton-on-the-Hill engine shed to the left, the remains of the passenger station platforms ahead, the railway club building to the right, and the sequence of three tunnels stretching into the distance. The first tunnel is quite short, then there is a patch of daylight in a deep cutting at Bedford Road, then there is a second much longer tunnel, then another patch of daylight at the cutting near Kirkdale, then a third short curved tunnel. The line then went across a bridge over the Spellow branch line, to a goods station at Kirkdale, and eventually to the docks.

331b - The Brown Cow pub. Walton Church entrance is just visible on the right.

345 - Lining up to go into Warbreck school (sometimes known as Rice Lane school) in 1961. The white-haired teacher is Mr Colclough. The green building was the dinner centre, made from corrugated tin. The white building was associated with Walton Prison. I'm near the back of the line in a blue jumper.

002 - Me on my tricycle in Denbigh Road.

These photos, and others, are available on my Flickr page at - http://www.flickr.com/photos/waltonon...

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