I remember in 1973 the lovely houses that stretched just past the Rocket to Roby being demolished. It was so cruel to watch it from my daily journey to work on the H8 bus. There was one gentleman that stood his ground and refused to move from his property. Draped across the roof of his beautiful detached bungalow was a huge union jack. Several times I saw him sitting defiantly on his roof. Sadly, it was all to no avail and like the rest of them it was finally demolished.
Hi. Enjoying your series on subways. Have you ever tried the subway from Finger House Lane, St. Helens, under the M62? It leads to the Dream sculpture, on the site of Sutton Manor coalfield.
We lived in Edge Lane Drive back in the late 1960s. When we left in the summer of 1969 to move to Skem, the flyover hadn't been built then. I vaguely remember the big roundabout and walking down to those shops in Broadgreen.
I think it would be interesting if you done a video on the trans Pennie trail and speak about when it used to be a railway line, just a suggestion. Still loving the vids!
Evening chaps. I came through Broad Green on the train today so this video was timely for me. The railway runs parallel to the motorway at Broad Green. I was unaware of the subways under the motorway. It's another great video. Thank you.
the rocket.....jimmy's chippy was the best. curry rice and chips and a carton drink 89p. every lunch time we would go from broadgreen school 1988-1993. good days :) we would then sit off by the underground subway at the top of those pebbles you talked about. only the grass and branches was not there.
Boss video mate 👍🏻 Its a belter that Rimmer avenue tunnel under the 62,i didnt realise that was there and i have driven over it a million times on that motorway 😂
Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I used to get the 81 bus to the Rocket on my way to school which has since been demolished and is now under the M62. So different then. I could even cross Queens Drive and live!!!
Its madness i used to drive the 81 past here those light that take you across to the hospital busstop let like one through then they change absolute mad
Amazing George. I use The M62 all the time and had no idea that all those walkways were underneath. Loved the old photos. I read an article a couple of years ago that said, they were going to do away with the Flyover, remodel the Junction and build a huge Roundabout instead. So all they were doing was to pinch an original idea and go back in time. Typical. I hope it's something that's been dropped. Can you imagine the disruption now?
The rocket flyover has a door leading into the base of the flyover. I have watched engineers go in. The door is visible from the pavement. Great video 😊
I frequently use that underpass to cross under the M62. The part of pub car park by the hand car wash (best hand job in Broad Green?) was never a slip road but the car park entrance/exit here was chained off to prevent cars leaving directly onto the motorway. The motorway actually ends a few hundred yards further back but it's essentially the same road. Cars now use the Queens Drive entrance/exit which is much safer. Did you notice the bus stop layby outside the Rocket and another on the other side? They're notable for the fact than no buses even pass there... never mind stop there! It's a nice pub and well worth a visit. The M62 was never extended from Tarbock Island to the Rocket; it was all built at the same time, early 1970s. Rimmer Avenue is in Roby, Huyton. L16. The Liverpool border is a bit further up, just past Court Hey Park. L16. The underpass to the outer loop line is in Broad Green, Liverpool. L14.
There used to be an entrance to the Rocket pub carpark next to the old petrol station. You could go from the garage to the rocket car park without going on the main road. Was a cut through so it was blocked off when they redid the curbs. There is a good little explore by the Turnpike. Opposite side of the junction. Climb over the motorway wall and under the 62. 15.30 in your vid. jump the wall to the right. We used to make jumps on the top of the stairs rimmer ave side and jump down the grass on the bmx's. No handrails back in the day. Thats called the sausage bridge from the shape of the old bridge. Dont think i have heard anyone call it the greystone bridge
Brilliant thanks for the info i thought the road looked a bit odd Thanka for the info on the other mooch ill check that out thanks very much and thanks for watching
My mum grew up on court hey Ave (subway entrance on the longest one),there house was always getting burgled and that subway was a getaway were many a wallet and items were recovered back in the day.The Bridge u were one used to be like a tunnel bridge over the m62 .interesting video 😊
There’s a subway in Huyton village. No where near as big as the rocket, but it goes back to 1830. As a little girl I would run through shouting, it echos .
@ it’s Blacklow Brow. There’s a private college for girls nexts door. No idea if it’s still open? And then there was a school for bad girls .. I was threatened with being sent there all the time..😕
Excellent Vlog, I work with a ex Police officer from St Anne’s St Police Station and am 100% certain he mentioned like you said the motorway was to End in town Centre junction 1 was by St Anne’s St police station it’s the reason St Anne’s police station was Built in the early 70s cause of the Motorway and were its supposed ending. They ran out of money that’s why it was never extended into the town Centre. Keep up the Great work.
I live in widnes and grown up in West Bank near the bridges, as a child the bridges was our climbing frame. There is a footpath which runs along the railway bridge over the Mersey but since I’ve grown up, a massive fence has been placed around to restrict access. There’s a gate which is locked near the bus stop but you would need a ladder. It would be interesting to see a video of you pair going over the footpath and upto the castle turrets on the railway bridge
I lived in Old Thomas Lane from 1957 to 1963 . It used to be nice back then before they built that Motorway & fly over at the Rocket . The station had 4 platforms & was well kept . Those subways are an eyesore with all that littler & graffiti , looks a muggers & crack heads paradise . Around the corner turning left from the Rocket pub ,on to Queens drive there used to be shops , I think one was a bakery shop or a chippy . Waking towards Broadgreen on the same side as Rocket pub there used to be a cafe & fresh donut shop down a set of steps , just before the road bridge goes over the railway bridge before the Station . Also the Rocket pub doesn’t look like the original Rocket pub ,it’s either been altered or knocked down & rebuilt in the last 50 odd years .
In the actual flyover at the rocket there are rooms and interlinking paseg ways that go the full length of the flyover back in the 1970s we ust to have dens in there wen were kids and they were still building the m62 we had beds and chairs and gas cooker and lights in there access from the railway end of the f
All belong to Liverpool George..our boundary goes to 6 Highmasts (motorway lighting) up the M62, just like the Highmasts dotted around the Rocket Flyover Junction.
I'm sure he original Rocket pub was demolished when that roundabout at Broadgreen was demolished. Find old pictures of the pub and you might find the answer to the slip road question.
I lived in Skem in ‘76, wonderful picturesque meandering footpaths, designed by out of touch planners. Didn’t they realise pedestrians always take the shortest and most direct walking route?
@g2emedia1977 apologies for the confusion, the one by Rimmer avenue does go under the 62 the one before it however, the one by the rocket pub is under bowring park road. The motorway doesn't start till yhe road splits left towards Braodgreen station.
It was nice to see that clean white one before the end. I don’t know what the people are thinking when they deface the other ones, why do they want their great city represented that way?
Maybe don't repeat every bit of graffiti you see. Munich 58 is a reference to a major disaster where most of the Manchester United squad lost their lives. Having had family and friends at Hillsborough I'd hope my fellow scousers would have more class
@g2emedia1977 I would have preferred you to be a bit more pragmatic, and maybe not snap back as if I was telling you what to do. Anyway, moment/chance for a normal conversation has gone now. Have a great day
@joeexotic5831 like i said it would make zero difference if i had said what it was or wasnt there graff like this all ovet the place and munich has nothing to do with hilsborough
Who remembers the subway that ran by Lime street station and came out near the Penny farthing pub?
Apparently still there just sealed either end
Yes
Smelled lovely. 🚽
Always dripping wet with a Busker in residence .😊
Another fantastic video with great content. We do enjoy watching mate
Thank you very much glad you enjoy the content
@ just sat watching Britain’s extreme weather and seen and heard your content on channel 4. Well in mate 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I remember in 1973 the lovely houses that stretched just past the Rocket to Roby being demolished. It was so cruel to watch it from my daily journey to work on the H8 bus. There was one gentleman that stood his ground and refused to move from his property. Draped across the roof of his beautiful detached bungalow was a huge union jack. Several times I saw him sitting defiantly on his roof. Sadly, it was all to no avail and like the rest of them it was finally demolished.
Cheers for the shout out mate! Many memories of all those subway - good and bad haha!
Anytime mate thanks for the pics and that info etc
Hi. Enjoying your series on subways. Have you ever tried the subway from Finger House Lane, St. Helens, under the M62? It leads to the Dream sculpture, on the site of Sutton Manor coalfield.
Wow amazing never seen or heard of this before its bloody huge
Boss video george well done
Thanks for watching brilliant this isnt it
We lived in Edge Lane Drive back in the late 1960s. When we left in the summer of 1969 to move to Skem, the flyover hadn't been built then. I vaguely remember the big roundabout and walking down to those shops in Broadgreen.
I worked on the street cleansing and one of our drivers got his vehicle stuck in there, he had to deflate his tyres to get out.
I think it would be interesting if you done a video on the trans Pennie trail and speak about when it used to be a railway line, just a suggestion. Still loving the vids!
It is on the list cameron
Thanks for watching btw much appreciated
I remember a single concrete half tube style walkway that ran across the m62 before the Greystone Bridge in 2015.
Evening chaps. I came through Broad Green on the train today so this video was timely for me. The railway runs parallel to the motorway at Broad Green. I was unaware of the subways under the motorway. It's another great video. Thank you.
The underpass at the end of the video at Bowring Park Road is the part of the old Cheshire Lines railway that ran from Halewood to Southport.
I was curious to know,where the final fight in the Movie Awaydays took place.Now finally i know,thanks to you,its near the Rocket Pub/Queens drive!
Thanks
thank you very much
❤Thanks
@@paultull7240 thank you very much paul so kind
@g2emedia1977 Ur welcome mate what ya do take up Ur time and money. I'm glad to help
It's appreciated all that you and Eric do
I’m going to check this out 👌by our kids!!
Well worth checking out this mate ill look forward to the video if you do one
Brilliant video as always George…good to see Erick 👍
Thanks for watching you will probably see eric again in about 6 months lol
Excellent video once again keep them coming
Cheers thanks lots more coming like this
the rocket.....jimmy's chippy was the best. curry rice and chips and a carton drink 89p. every lunch time we would go from broadgreen school 1988-1993. good days :) we would then sit off by the underground subway at the top of those pebbles you talked about. only the grass and branches was not there.
Boss video mate 👍🏻 Its a belter that Rimmer avenue tunnel under the 62,i didnt realise that was there and i have driven over it a million times on that motorway 😂
Its boss isnt it so photogenic aswell
Thanks for watching liam
Great memories hanging around there in the 80s. Thanks mate. There's a tunnel under the flyover,manhole was opp the old golf/fire Place shop.
Found a place for you to check out
Railway line over stream and lane at the entrance to Borsdane Woods, Hindley, near Wigan, UK.
cool ill have a look on google maps
Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I used to get the 81 bus to the Rocket on my way to school which has since been demolished and is now under the M62. So different then. I could even cross Queens Drive and live!!!
Its madness i used to drive the 81 past here those light that take you across to the hospital busstop let like one through then they change absolute mad
Amazing George. I use The M62 all the time and had no idea that all those walkways were underneath. Loved the old photos. I read an article a couple of years ago that said, they were going to do away with the Flyover, remodel the Junction and build a huge Roundabout instead. So all they were doing was to pinch an original idea and go back in time. Typical. I hope it's something that's been dropped. Can you imagine the disruption now?
Another great video... Thanks 👍🏻
Thanks for watching lee glad you enjoyed it
Hi George and Eric didn't realise a subway was at the start of the M62 great video 👍
Hi martin thanks for watching glad you enjoyed the video isnt it a boss subway
Hi George, great video as always. The gated off tunnel on the Loop was was never used. It was for future expansion. :)
Thanks for the info! glad you enjoyed the video
That wet patch on the path @6:07 has been there forever and it turns to black ice. I slipped on it 12 years ago and broke my left arm at the elbow.
My favourite bit is the curved brickwork areas between the subways.
I'd like to go back in time and see them when new.
Thanks George 👍
i do quite like old brickwork like this
it look great subways journey great ther made make life easy
I do love a good subway
The rocket flyover has a door leading into the base of the flyover. I have watched engineers go in. The door is visible from the pavement. Great video 😊
Thanks for the info i think i walked past that when walking back to the car bloody locked though lol
Glad you enjoyed the vid cheers
@@g2emedia1977probably leads to a bunker network like in case of nuclear war
I frequently use that underpass to cross under the M62. The part of pub car park by the hand car wash (best hand job in Broad Green?) was never a slip road but the car park entrance/exit here was chained off to prevent cars leaving directly onto the motorway. The motorway actually ends a few hundred yards further back but it's essentially the same road. Cars now use the Queens Drive entrance/exit which is much safer.
Did you notice the bus stop layby outside the Rocket and another on the other side? They're notable for the fact than no buses even pass there... never mind stop there!
It's a nice pub and well worth a visit.
The M62 was never extended from Tarbock Island to the Rocket; it was all built at the same time, early 1970s.
Rimmer Avenue is in Roby, Huyton. L16. The Liverpool border is a bit further up, just past Court Hey Park. L16.
The underpass to the outer loop line is in Broad Green, Liverpool. L14.
If i lived there I would go and try to scrub that mosaic clean. But I live in Devon.. 😔
Its a shame isnt it its been vandalised
nice explore george, bet old tom flynn's smiling!!🤣🤣
Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it
There used to be an entrance to the Rocket pub carpark next to the old petrol station. You could go from the garage to the rocket car park without going on the main road. Was a cut through so it was blocked off when they redid the curbs. There is a good little explore by the Turnpike. Opposite side of the junction. Climb over the motorway wall and under the 62. 15.30 in your vid. jump the wall to the right.
We used to make jumps on the top of the stairs rimmer ave side and jump down the grass on the bmx's. No handrails back in the day.
Thats called the sausage bridge from the shape of the old bridge. Dont think i have heard anyone call it the greystone bridge
Brilliant thanks for the info i thought the road looked a bit odd
Thanka for the info on the other mooch ill check that out thanks very much and thanks for watching
My mum grew up on court hey Ave (subway entrance on the longest one),there house was always getting burgled and that subway was a getaway were many a wallet and items were recovered back in the day.The Bridge u were one used to be like a tunnel bridge over the m62 .interesting video 😊
There’s a subway in Huyton village. No where near as big as the rocket, but it goes back to 1830. As a little girl I would run through shouting, it echos .
@@annegallagher that is interesting do you have a road name?
@ it’s Blacklow Brow. There’s a private college for girls nexts door. No idea if it’s still open? And then there was a school for bad girls .. I was threatened with being sent there all the time..😕
@annegallagher no the school closed down ages ago
Excellent Vlog, I work with a ex Police officer from St Anne’s St Police Station and am 100% certain he mentioned like you said the motorway was to End in town Centre junction 1 was by St Anne’s St police station it’s the reason St Anne’s police station was Built in the early 70s cause of the Motorway and were its supposed ending. They ran out of money that’s why it was never extended into the town Centre. Keep up the Great work.
Makes sense as what's close by? Kingsway Tunnel. Explains the weird curved slip road entrance and exit shoehorned in by St Anne's
14:44 I can't understand why all those houses needed to be demolished when the motorway could have ran on the opposite side of the railway
It does not make sense does it
Nice one George, good to see Eric.
Glad you enjoyed it
Standin with isreal FFFFF palastine. From Liverpool.
Apparently there’s a railway tunnel behind Broadgreen hospital
That will be the loopline
I live in widnes and grown up in West Bank near the bridges, as a child the bridges was our climbing frame. There is a footpath which runs along the railway bridge over the Mersey but since I’ve grown up, a massive fence has been placed around to restrict access. There’s a gate which is locked near the bus stop but you would need a ladder. It would be interesting to see a video of you pair going over the footpath and upto the castle turrets on the railway bridge
I lived in Old Thomas Lane from 1957 to 1963 . It used to be nice back then before they built that Motorway & fly over at the Rocket . The station had 4 platforms & was well kept . Those subways are an eyesore with all that littler & graffiti , looks a muggers & crack heads paradise . Around the corner turning left from the Rocket pub ,on to Queens drive there used to be shops , I think one was a bakery shop or a chippy . Waking towards Broadgreen on the same side as Rocket pub there used to be a cafe & fresh donut shop down a set of steps , just before the road bridge goes over the railway bridge before the Station . Also the Rocket pub doesn’t look like the original Rocket pub ,it’s either been altered or knocked down & rebuilt in the last 50 odd years .
Very " A Clockwork Orange ." .... Without the " Droogs " .
In the actual flyover at the rocket there are rooms and interlinking paseg ways that go the full length of the flyover back in the 1970s we ust to have dens in there wen were kids and they were still building the m62 we had beds and chairs and gas cooker and lights in there access from the railway end of the f
Rember the one on Tuebrook and I think there still one bye Ogden’s clock always used be full water 😂
I remember that one mate by my old school st Michaels I'm sure it's still in use
Yes i think thats still in use a nice little short one that
My mate got bummed under that fly over he said he didn't but I know he did.
@@davelar3868 oh hes lucky
All belong to Liverpool George..our boundary goes to 6 Highmasts (motorway lighting) up the M62, just like the Highmasts dotted around the Rocket Flyover Junction.
I would hardy cal it a beauty an eyesore
@@TheCol1957 well i liked it
I'm sure he original Rocket pub was demolished when that roundabout at Broadgreen was demolished. Find old pictures of the pub and you might find the answer to the slip road question.
looks like Skem. Was Skem based on this design? Skem many ways in hard to find the exit road :_)
skem is bad for things like this isn't it
I lived in Skem in ‘76, wonderful picturesque meandering footpaths, designed by out of touch planners. Didn’t they realise pedestrians always take the shortest and most direct walking route?
That's not the M62 though, it's Bowring park road, the motorway starts further down
Its the m62 last time i checked
@g2emedia1977 apologies for the confusion, the one by Rimmer avenue does go under the 62 the one before it however, the one by the rocket pub is under bowring park road. The motorway doesn't start till yhe road splits left towards Braodgreen station.
That loop line runs down to Halewood. Not far from where you done that video by the shops .
i keep meaning to do this aswell
@g2emedia1977 Use to play up there on our bikes as kids when it was a deserted railway branch line.
Thank goodness the motorway didn't go all the way into town.
Idiots that disfigure the work of art😤
It would be a network of flyovers lol like the one they demolished in town ages ago lol
THIS IS WERE YOU SEE GANGS ON ROLLER SKATES AND WEARING DUNGAREES
shouting "warriors come out to play" lol
It was nice to see that clean white one before the end. I don’t know what the people are thinking when they deface the other ones, why do they want their great city represented that way?
I hated walking through there..Always thought id get mugged, raped or murdered.
Oh dear sorry to hear that
It would be better with without all the graffiti ..I think it makes the place look a mess.
unfortunately you will never stop the graff
@g2emedia1977 it's like 12 monkeys where its interfering with his thought patterns..that's how it make me feel
Maybe don't repeat every bit of graffiti you see. Munich 58 is a reference to a major disaster where most of the Manchester United squad lost their lives. Having had family and friends at Hillsborough I'd hope my fellow scousers would have more class
I dont need to be told what i can and cant say on videos its on the wall for all to see
And me saying what it isnt any different
@@g2emedia1977 Not the response I was hoping for. Never mind. You enjoy your life
@joeexotic5831 what did you want me to say??
@g2emedia1977 I would have preferred you to be a bit more pragmatic, and maybe not snap back as if I was telling you what to do. Anyway, moment/chance for a normal conversation has gone now. Have a great day
@joeexotic5831 like i said it would make zero difference if i had said what it was or wasnt there graff like this all ovet the place and munich has nothing to do with hilsborough