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F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike

Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 23/12/2025, 8:28:35

The photo dates from June 1974, Peter.

It's a unique image as the Lift-Bridge closed to Traffic midnight on the 14th June, 1974, the only vehicles allowed were those going to the Tar Works.

The new flyover opened for traffic on Saturday 15th June.

I got a surprise going to work on the Monday morning being diverted over the new flyover in my Moskvich van (loved that van)

Note the sweet shop has been demolished next to the old foot-bridge steps.

I could manage the ascent up to the bridge on my 3 gear Raleigh bike

Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 23/12/2025, 9:15:08, in reply to "F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"

Poor man he is bend right over,hard work,I was given a bike when I was about 14years of age,the gears where broke or stuck,Riding up the hill by Cookson pub was hard,still used that bike when I started work,

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Posted by PeteH2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=PeteH2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 25/12/2025, 0:26:49, in reply to "Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"

Thanks Ronnie.

Aren’t bikes wonderful? Love the feeling of being on one.

My dad would cycle to work at C. I. Wilson, Coppersmith’s in Liverpool. Hail, rain, or shine. In the early days he would take the bike on the train from Seaforth and Litherland station, in later days he would cycle all the way. We never had a car. I had the first car in our family in 1979. Hillman Avenger.

In those early years using the train from
Litherland there were often Italian POWs on the train, perfectly accepted by all.

He was cycling to Liverpool to work until he was 70.

Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike

Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 27/12/2025, 11:14:13, in reply to "Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"

Going to my aunties who lived near Sefton church I was pushing my Dolls pram,didnt notice my coat had fallen off,He must have been a Italian prisoner of war who came running after mum and I with my coat,

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 27/12/2025, 7:27:20, in reply to "Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"
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My Dad cycling to work too from Litherland and Ford when on the docks and two cold stores he worked at.

He eventually got himself a moped when lived in Ford.

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 27/12/2025, 11:05:49, in reply to "Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"

Ronnie did he ever come home with a sheet of bacon ribs under his shirt,a friend I worked with said her dad did,wrapped around his ribs,when i worked in a supermarket in Warminster a lady came in and asked,for a sheet of ribs,wanted make soup,

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 25/12/2025, 9:36:03, in reply to "Re: F.A.O. Peter - Man on Bike"

In my teen we where alway going to bike ride to Southport,we would have got threw ince woods,then give up,eat a sandwishes and go bank home,one year my brothers bike had a puncture we took turns in ridding his bike,when it was safe to leave him rode home,and MyDad went out on his motor bike and sidecar to recues him and the bike,

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