Step back in time and experience Bold Street from days gone by…
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Women of the 1950s crossing from Bold Street to Church Street.
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This building housed the Cabin Club for 50 years before becoming a restaurant
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Shop fronts in the 1950s
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Sebastian De Ferranti, born at the top of Bold Street
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A view form Church Street
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Postcard of Bold Street
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Motorbike parts being displayed at a showroom on Bold Street
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Celebrating the coronation in 1953
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Christmas lights on Bold Street C.1960s
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This warehouse building no longer exists on Bold Street
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A very important building at the top of Bold Street
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A postcard of the Lyceum
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The radiator building was home to the Liverpool gas company, and was built in the shape of a radiator of the day
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An untouched St Lukes church before bombing
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Dawn French filming an episode of Swank in Cafe Berlin, 1985.
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The Yamen opened in 1910 and was the first vegetarian eatery in the city. It is now Leaf.
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Bold Street fruit market was a favorite in the 2000s and remained even after the adjoining buildings were demolished for RopeWalks Square/FACT
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Virgin records opened their 3rd ever shop on Bold Street. These days they’re sending people into space!
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Cripps was a womenswear specialist which created corsets and more on site.
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This is an old branch of Lloyds which sits on the corner of Slater Street and Bold Street
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Upstairs in the grand ballroom of the Yamen.
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The Liverpool savings bank during WW2
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An old OS map of the Bold Street area
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Cafe Berlin in the mid-eighties. The owner Paul and his brother are in shot
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At the bottom end of Bold Street
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A shopfront showing a photography exhibition by Hardman
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St Lukes church before being hit during the war
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Punks gather for a photograph at the bottom end of Bold Street
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A ghost sign at the bottom end of Bold Street over a shop
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During the 1940s
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Upstairs at the vegetarian Yamen cafe, now Leaf
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Bold Street with horses and carts.
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An old postcard
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The music hall on Bold Street featured performances of opera and the like. Here you can see it’s back, where people stood waiting for their horse and coach after performances. It is still there today.
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The Kardomah coffee house
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An early Edwardian photo of Bold Street
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An image of the Palatine building
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Bold Street had some strange businesses
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Waterstones book store was at home in the old Cripps building for many years until HMV, it’s owners scaled back operations
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The Lyceum, complete with a branch of Reeces – Liverpool’s premier bakery of the time.
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A motorbike sales room on Bold Street in the 1930s
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A comparison of the Lyceaum reading rooms from old and modern day
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A photograph featuring the Palatine building, which was demolished in the 1970s
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An etching showing the Bold Street area at the turn of the 1900s, as seen from a hot air balloon
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Shop fronts in the 1970s
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The Boots branch on Bold Street took up what is now 3 units – Central Perk, Pop boutique and Bold Street Bakehouse.
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Celebrating a royal visit at the beginning of the 1900s
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Cafe 53 is now Raggas
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Showing the bottom of Bold Street in the 1970s
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War damage to Bold Street
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This stretch of Bold Street replaced an earlier one hit during the war
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Coopers moved here from it’s Church Street store where it once had a huge department store noted for it’s fresh ground coffee
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Bold Street still looked like this at the start of the 2000s
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The Lyceum complete with a coating of grime from industry
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The grand staircase of the Yamen hotel
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This bank is now home to Mr Chips and Pizza pronto takeaways
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Lots of photography studios were on Bold Street at one time
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Jayne Casey of Pink Industry at Cafe Berlin, 1985
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Bold Street celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953
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Shoes bought from Lewis’s department store
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The building adjoining the Lyceum is the Waterloo hotel
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This image shows the corner of Slater Street.
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The cover of an album by Liverpool band The Icicle Works at Cafe Berlin
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A comparison shot showing the street leading to a famous gymnasium
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The bottom end of Bold Street
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I remember watching the Tube and Thomas Lang at the Cafe Berlin. All my friends in London asked who us he and where is that,,,, Thomas Lang @ the Berlin on Boldy.
Fascinating!
Are there any photographs of the four seasons wine bar in bold street circa late 1970s
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