Kev, the way you speak really does hold people's attention, you are a natural at it. It's so professional. I'm sure you had a few notes to get things as you wanted to say them, but what a fantastic story teller you are. A lot of this is also from your memories, which is something I love to hear because it's real life stuff & I have previously told you that it's such a personal insight into you. This is part of Your Life & you come alive when you talk about it. I think you loved doing this one. 👍
Boss bit of local history info there mate. I used to do nostalgic slideshows in care homes and sheltered accomodations around the city, and I remember some fella telling me about a load of prisoners having to be marched on foot to Walton Prison from Kirkdale when it closed in 1892. Imagine trying to do that these days. Just around the corner from the Rec was Kirkdale Industrial School (later known as Kirkdale Homes) on Wezzy Road, where you will still find one of the stone column gateposts in situ on the estate opposite the school. I got a photo of it a few years ago. Keep up the good work, Lad.
Wow, that was so fascinating to hear about Kirkdale Jail, as was. My nan was born in Fountains Rd and would tell tales passed down from family,about the public executions and, unrelated, alleged sightings of 'spring heeled jack' in the area, leaping across the top of buildings! All very weird but I loved listening to her stories. Thanks for a very interesting video ❤
Good watch that Kev some history in our parks. The other one is Grant Gardens by Everton Road and West Derby Road known as the Necropolis. Once a graveyard for over 80,000 burials now a park after the cemetery was closed late 1890s.
Know that area well Kev, lived on North Dingle as a kid back in 1970-1975 ish 👍👍 Remember the Rec lol , the Sessions Pub, played weekend football for the Medlock Pub as well , The Saddle Pub on fountains road is still going apparently 👍👍 Also went to Fonthill primary school (Fonny road lol) the Original Victorian school that they stupidly demolished 🫣that was deffo haunted, by a lady carrying a lamp around at night who hung herself apparently 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Kev, this is the first time ive tuned in to your channel, so interesting, we have so much history around merseyside. You should have a look at Bidston village Wirral. Keep it going buddy
Immediately recognised the park from thumbnail 😂 grew up in area myself in Wykem street never knew the jail was there but I can attest paranormal activities of area great vid. 👍🏻
Great video Kev, really enjoyed it. I grew up around Everton and there was a massive building there with a bricked up doorway (think it was a water tower?) and we all thought a witch lived in there too 😆 Keep em coming, nice to hear bits of history of our city 🥰 🙏xx
@@Kevcupo It was in Margaret Street in Everton Kev (my mum would take us to Margaret street public baths to get a proper bath once a week and we would always pass it) Not sure if it’s still there but it was a massive impressive building. The bricked up doorway used to freak me out though, we thought a witch had been bricked up in there 🙈🤣 Might be worth a trip over that way for you (it wasn’t too far from brougham terrace) xx
I would just like to add, that I think you are a great presenter, and very knowledgeable, and you totally kept my attention. Well done bud your doing a great job
Kev that was a blinding video mate. I love hearing memories of days gone by. Reading about you ,and people who lived around the area at the same time as you. I lived in Bolton until i was 9,but me and my brother remember a story of a woman in a red coat,she was there one minute and gone in a few seconds. I'd just like to add to what many people have said on your videos. You are brilliant and doing what you do, just keep doing it Kev . Love it. Thanks.
Wow that was real interesting. those days bodies a lways buried on the grounds not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground .and always moved when prisons closed nowadays they say the soul has gone that body becomes innocent and can be buried and returned to the familys.nice to know they went to a cemetry. The familys could not claim the bodies then not sure when that changed . Gosh its amazin what you can find out just around and about. no issue now they dont hang. Great vid.
Oh i was just getting interested in that then. I blooming love history stories. And paranormal stuff. Fabulous video, Kev. Thanks for that. Really well done, kept me on the edge of my seat. 👻👍🏻🐶🐾
Probably a silly question but is the youth club still open? I grew up on St aggy road and loved that place. I completely forgot about “the witches grave” until you brought it up now i remember it vividly. Mad how the memory works.
Brilliant information My auntie lives in no. 5 . Suffield road my uncle lives in no. 31 . My other uncle and auntie lived in the block of flats on the edge of the park we’re you pointed the entrance out but I have played in the park when I was younger 68 now .
Hi No sorry I don’t know jimmy.. Kev can we do more about kirkdale and Walton areas as it is our great liverpool heritage as mine and yours are ingrained in these areas thanks buddy fantastic information follow most of your good work thank you . I will be speaking to my auntie and uncle tomorrow so your ears will be burning lol 👍👏
Great video Kev, just subscribed mate, love learning more history about Liverpool, I'm from Manchester, but all my family are originally from Liverpool, so love learning about my spiritual home. Keep up the good work mate.
we lived in brockmoor towers which was right next to the rec also by the sessions pub people used to say they heard the prisoners chains clanking in the nightime but i never experienced anything and our flat overlooked the park but i loved finding out more history from your research thank you
I really enjoyed this mate. The Liverpool Necropolis opposite The Olympia by The Grafton is interesting. I'm sure my relatives will be amongst the eighty thousand intered there but can't find any information. Keep up the good work lad.👍
St marys park which is very near and was behind Westminster road baths has hundreds of bodies from the plaque or some diseases still there. Do you know anyhing about this very small park or why there have never been houses built on it.? Thanks kev.great vid.
This was another I was thinking about...known locally as St.Mary's Park, Lester Gardens, between Walton Road, and Westminster Road, Kirkdale was formerly St. Mary's Cemetery. A huge number of victims of the various Cholera epidemics that swept through Liverpool were buried here, including a number of my own ancestors. As far as I'm aware, just like Grant Gardens on West Derby Road, it was landscaped and designated as a park by Liverpool Corporation, however the tens of thousands of bodies buried there were left interred and simply landscaped over.
Apparantly over 58 thousand buried there.most in dedicated numbered pits.major Lester had over a hundred thousand followers at his funeral. 50 years as the vicar and helped the many poor souls in the area.
Amazing history.the site names all who are buried there over 60 years till it closed.and what they died of and the age and sometimes occupation.as kids we played football there every night. Vaguely remember being told we are plating over graves.
Wow...Brought some memories back there Kev, my neck of the woods also... I was born around there, went to Fonthill school then Lambeth, use to have a milk & paper around as a kid before & after school. I remember there corner sweetshop opposite the school 😊 I remember the pubs in the area, drank & worked in them all 😂 You must remember Langtry House in the area... I'll leave it here, got lots of memories of Kirkdale and the history, all changed 😢
@@Kevcupo lol "Franks" 👏 couldn't remember the name for some reason, some stories there 😉 Played footie everywhere, but always remember the all weather by the Phoenix, knees never been the same 😂
Great. I used to do Morris Dancing in this park. Called the West minister Star Lights. I also went to Fonthill rd School. Just for 2 years they used to talk about the "Grey Lady," and you have the Devils Ditch. There too or Devils Gauge... just by The Melrose Pub. There is a Lantry house for the homless. And the surrounding houses. One time. I was visting a counsin. It was Halloween time. I seen a man walking up her stairs. I seen the back of the legs. Going up her stairs. She was in alone. Great story. ❤ love real stuff 🎉🎉
Kev, really interesting vid. I'm from County Rd, but I know that park, and the stories of the sessions. Do you know who James Maybrick is ? his grave is in anfield cem. I think that subject could be well received once you know who he is . Keep up the great work mate
Hi didn’t know about maybrick . Till you mentioned and looked him up, how scary always thought JR was Londoner. Or hasn’t it been proved that maybrick is J.T.R.😮
@@slavery5585 THere was a diary and pocket watch that surfaced in the 0's ( I think ) that were claimed to be Maybrick's detailing the murders. It was later proved to be fake. But the whole Maybrick and his wife story is very interesting
Can remember going back in the 1980's,there was talk that Father Carney of Saint John's church performed some sort of mass & blessings in a few houses around that way. Due to people being afraid,they could hear screams & groans, chains clanking , ghosts. Just terrifying noises, of course it was connected to that kirkdale prison & what went on in it. Father Carney an old Irish priest of the parish passed away quite a few years ago now, what a pity he isn't here to explain. Great video very interesting .
Every park must have a story, in some of the old parks and church grounds near where I had lived have burial mounds of alleged bubonic plague victims. I have always felt spooked being in a park at night [from the living and the dead]. I liked your ghost story; I guess it’s possible everyone has seen something but never knew what it was or are wilfully oblivious [everyone has a sixth sense]. I would love to see more local Liverpool history, specially the darker-side? I love your local stories and I guess it is good for your kids and grandchildren to see too.
Real interesting mate, love local history!! Your K2 meter reacting and sightings of apparitions all makes sense, should imagine there are quite a few restless spirits in that area? Would be great if you did a nightime paranormal search/walk? If you had the spirit talker app on your phone even better?
love what you do this one was great we mostly get to know about the obvious history bot this is more personnel and local please do some more and find some old guys an ladies to tell there story's of life in the city over the last 70 to 80 years well done thanks
Good video Kev, really interesting as that is round the corner from where I live. I was going to cover this in a video too but I won’t bother now 😂😂😂. Look forward to your next one.
I lived in Garnett Avenue from the age of 8, and attended Fonthill Road School which is the old school you refer to. There was a gate to the park in Garnett Avenue.
The wall around the prison is probably still there, I reckon all the building materials were sold and the top coping stones put back and now have railings mounted on them. Just my theory.
Have you ever thought of doing ' Grant Gardens ' opposite the Old Brougham Terrace ( now a Mosque ) registry office at the end of West Derby rd ? There was an article many years ago saying there were many hundreds of bodies buried there ,they were never exhumed & they built the park in top of them . May be an interesting vlog ... 🤔
Our large family moved from Lemon street kirkdale to ormskirk then back again to fountains road in the late 50s. My mother got a job as a carer in kirkdale homes. That was one scary place. Think it was demolished before you lived there. Looked a bit like walton hospital and the nearby stanley hospital. Full of history around there.
Hi Kevin very interesting I was born on Melrose rd and the house I lived in was haunted. And as for Robly house I worked there few times As it was owned by character mailing and was a strange building never seen anything but felt it brilliant information mate
Carl was that the old envelope filling company of Sessions Road, if so me Mam worked there late 70,s when it was called Focus I think 🤔🤔🤔 That shut down then they all got moved to Steers house in town re-named McKintyre and king !!
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo hi yes your right I worked in character mailing that main building was and still is in heysham road. Character mailing got robly house about the time focus moved out I think but not sure they only rented the building did you mum see or sence anything when she was working there
Boss bit of history that and love a good ghost story me :) I used to live by the old railway line by Springfield Park and the Sainsburys. The story was that a train had crashed under the tunnel and was buried there. Me, my brother and mates used to play around there, before it was the cycle path and remember this little lad dressed in old clothes (like shorts/dungarees and a shirt), standing up at the back of the tunnel and pointing up the track. We thought he was asking for directions (Don't remember him saying anything though which is strange) so we said yeah, just follow the track towards Broadgreen. He then steps down at the back of the tunnel and that's the last we see of him. There was a hole at the back of the tunnel but we didn't see him leave that way. He wasn't see through like you'd think a ghost would look like, just grey in the dark.
Grew up playing in the reck lived in Nith street went to st johns school a lot different around there now, had a weird experience on the corner of medlock street old woman dressed in old clobber telling me off, the kirkdale homes was a derelict building then spooky place too, nice one for the vid mate
I grew up on Fonthill Road directly across from Kirkdale C.P., used to hear ghost stories about The Rec, about the ghosts of executed prisoners roaming the grounds at night, no wonder it has an eerie feel to it at night.
@@Kevcupo I think my mum's is definitely haunted, when I was a kid I used to have a stereo with the big speakers, I kept one of the speakers on top of a big wardrobe(to give a sort of surround sound effect) against the wall, one day my brother and I are on the playstation, when this speaker that was against the wall, came flying off the top of the wardrobe, just barely missing both my brother and I.
So interesting kev,remember as a kid years ago had hut in that was a play center,top corner entrance by school,also we called a place at the bottom by sessions pub devil's ditch.❤️
Remember as a kid the swings being about 3 stories high could touch the clouds, and sneaking out with my big maglite torch going in the robley house great times, enjoyed that history kev also theres tunnels in the medlock not sure where they go but maybe to the session? be good to find more land surveys / maps
Years ago about 2001 i went to view 44 suffield road and just walking around that house for 10 minuits felt very weird it was a horrible feeling, never took the house. I grew up just off easby road. Our house was built on the the spot the old stanley hospital was and that had some very strange things happen in that house.
I remember going under the sessions pub with the landlady and it was scary. It went all the way under towards the wreck and she told us about it and went into the prison
I was hooked on this walkaround on the local history.. Please do more like it! Great work....
I will do, thank you
@@Kevcupo Thank you.... the hidden history is mind boggling and you explained it perfectly making it so interesting!
Kev, the way you speak really does hold people's attention, you are a natural at it. It's so professional. I'm sure you had a few notes to get things as you wanted to say them, but what a fantastic story teller you are. A lot of this is also from your memories, which is something I love to hear because it's real life stuff & I have previously told you that it's such a personal insight into you. This is part of Your Life & you come alive when you talk about it. I think you loved doing this one. 👍
Thank you, but my memory is awful. The amount of cuts I had to do to keep checking my notes is unreal
@@Kevcupo "my memory is awful"... It sounds like you are talking about me 🤣 It comes with age, young Kev. 😅
Nepotism
Boss bit of local history info there mate. I used to do nostalgic slideshows in care homes and sheltered accomodations around the city, and I remember some fella telling me about a load of prisoners having to be marched on foot to Walton Prison from Kirkdale when it closed in 1892. Imagine trying to do that these days.
Just around the corner from the Rec was Kirkdale Industrial School (later known as Kirkdale Homes) on Wezzy Road, where you will still find one of the stone column gateposts in situ on the estate opposite the school. I got a photo of it a few years ago. Keep up the good work, Lad.
Nice one mate, that column is right outside my mates house
Fascinating stuff KC. Amazing what forgotten history is around us. 👍
Thank you mate
Wow, that was so fascinating to hear about Kirkdale Jail, as was. My nan was born in Fountains Rd and would tell tales passed down from family,about the public executions and, unrelated, alleged sightings of 'spring heeled jack' in the area, leaping across the top of buildings! All very weird but I loved listening to her stories. Thanks for a very interesting video ❤
I’d love to hear other peoples stories about the jail
Spring heeled Jack sounds like a Corker! Fizzy boots and Liverpool's OG parkour artist. You could sell that one
Good watch that Kev some history in our parks. The other one is Grant Gardens by Everton Road and West Derby Road known as the Necropolis. Once a graveyard for over 80,000 burials now a park after the cemetery was closed late 1890s.
You’re the second one to mention that now, I’ll have to check it out
That's a true fact. Some amazing stories
I grew up by Grant Gardens opposite the Hippodrome, Henglers Circus. Used to jump off the walls as a kid.
@@IanLiverpool I used to play in grant gardens as a kid, they had a great playground with a big roundabout, a slide and tossy bars etc… happy days :)
Kev really enjoyed that brilliant mate so much interesting history in Liverpool
There is, just need to look for it
Know that area well Kev, lived on North Dingle as a kid back in 1970-1975 ish 👍👍
Remember the Rec lol , the Sessions Pub, played weekend football for the Medlock Pub as well , The Saddle Pub on fountains road is still going apparently 👍👍
Also went to Fonthill primary school (Fonny road lol) the Original Victorian school that they stupidly demolished 🫣that was deffo haunted, by a lady carrying a lamp around at night who hung herself apparently 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Oh wow that’s interesting, and yeah the saddle is still going strong
Kev, this is the first time ive tuned in to your channel, so interesting, we have so much history around merseyside. You should have a look at Bidston village Wirral. Keep it going buddy
Thank you Martin, I appreciate that mate
Martin you should subscribe mate. It doesn't cost anything, and Kev covers lots of interesting topics. You'll get hooked I promise.
Nice video mate, really interesting. Great drone shots too 👍
Thank you Ray
Liverpool history is a very interesting history, please do more of these Kev as its so very interesting and enjoyable xx
Immediately recognised the park from thumbnail 😂 grew up in area myself in Wykem street never knew the jail was there but I can attest paranormal activities of area great vid. 👍🏻
Cheers Tommy, I’m glad someone can back me up
Great video Kev, really enjoyed it. I grew up around Everton and there was a massive building there with a bricked up doorway (think it was a water tower?) and we all thought a witch lived in there too 😆 Keep em coming, nice to hear bits of history of our city 🥰 🙏xx
Thank you, what water tower is it?
@@Kevcupo It was in Margaret Street in Everton Kev (my mum would take us to Margaret street public baths to get a proper bath once a week and we would always pass it) Not sure if it’s still there but it was a massive impressive building. The bricked up doorway used to freak me out though, we thought a witch had been bricked up in there 🙈🤣 Might be worth a trip over that way for you (it wasn’t too far from brougham terrace) xx
I would just like to add, that I think you are a great presenter, and very knowledgeable, and you totally kept my attention. Well done bud your doing a great job
Thank you so much Frank
Kev can you video our peace protest / gathering again on 28th September 1pm , liver building please ? @UnitedTheKingdom.Liverpool
Editing is top notch 👌 👏 👍
Still needs work, but thank you
Kev that was a blinding video mate. I love hearing memories of days gone by. Reading about you ,and people who lived around the area at the same time as you. I lived in Bolton until i was 9,but me and my brother remember a story of a woman in a red coat,she was there one minute and gone in a few seconds. I'd just like to add to what many people have said on your videos. You are brilliant and doing what you do, just keep doing it Kev . Love it. Thanks.
Thank you so much for continuing to support me Joe
Wow that was real interesting. those days bodies a lways buried on the grounds not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground .and always moved when prisons closed nowadays they say the soul has gone that body becomes innocent and can be buried and returned to the familys.nice to know they went to a cemetry. The familys could not claim the bodies then not sure when that changed . Gosh its amazin what you can find out just around and about. no issue now they dont hang. Great vid.
Thank you Joan, yeah it’s a strange one
Oh i was just getting interested in that then. I blooming love history stories. And paranormal stuff.
Fabulous video, Kev. Thanks for that. Really well done, kept me on the edge of my seat. 👻👍🏻🐶🐾
Thanks Julie
Superb video Kev. Great research too, it made for a brilliant watch. You’re a natural documentary maker. Full respect
Thank you Dave, still a lot to learn though
Absolutely fantastic vlog Kev.
I love anything like this you made me laugh when you ran away when you saw that girl love it. Xx❤❤
😂😂 they use little girls in horror movies now
Lol. 🤣🤣@@Kevcupo
Enjoyed that love a bit of local history 👌maybe you could research grant gardens low hill, 80000 bodies still remain just the headstones removed 😳
The burial records for The Necropolis (Grant Gardens) are all available on Ancestry's website.
Thank you Kev... Played there when I was little.... Lived in Humber Street... Always been interested in the Rec... Our second home...
Thank you Irene
Tom Slemen may have written about prison and surrounding areas just a thought
Correct Joan he probably has
Lovely to see you back 👍😅
Thank you Lin
Probably a silly question but is the youth club still open? I grew up on St aggy road and loved that place.
I completely forgot about “the witches grave” until you brought it up now i remember it vividly. Mad how the memory works.
The play centre is still there but rarely used. And the memory is a funny thing
I remember the old play centre during school holidays. I think the guy who ran it was named Harry.
Happy days of childhood. 😀
Brilliant information
My auntie lives in no. 5 . Suffield road my uncle lives in no. 31 . My other uncle and auntie lived in the block of flats on the edge of the park we’re you pointed the entrance out but I have played in the park when I was younger 68 now .
Is your Auntie called Margaret?
Yes my auntie Margaret and my uncle ray my uncle John and auntie Mary lived in the flats
Ray drinks in the medlock
@@harrykelly2769 I know Margaret very well, I also know Ray, he was friends with my dad. I also remember Hartley
We used to play on them garages by the flats as kids in the early 70,s Harry
Great memories, lived in North Dingle 👍👍
Do you know Jimmy Carthy?
Hi
No sorry I don’t know jimmy..
Kev can we do more about kirkdale and Walton areas as it is our great liverpool heritage as mine and yours are ingrained in these areas thanks buddy fantastic information follow most of your good work thank you .
I will be speaking to my auntie and uncle tomorrow so your ears will be burning lol 👍👏
Kev really enjoyed this mate
me mum and dad were from Westminster Rd Kirkdale
Nice one mate, I’ve lived around there all my life
Wow. What a brilliant vlog Kev. Thanks for that. ❤❤❤
Thank you
Great video Kev, just subscribed mate, love learning more history about Liverpool, I'm from Manchester, but all my family are originally from Liverpool, so love learning about my spiritual home.
Keep up the good work mate.
Thank you Russ, I really appreciate you subscribing mate
Great video. I recently done a paranormal Investigation in the community centre kirkdale. Sure it is connected to what you said
I’ve been in there myself, got nothing from it though
we lived in brockmoor towers which was right next to the rec also by the sessions pub people used to say they heard the prisoners chains clanking in the nightime but i never experienced anything and our flat overlooked the park but i loved finding out more history from your research thank you
I really enjoyed this mate. The Liverpool Necropolis opposite The Olympia by The Grafton is interesting. I'm sure my relatives will be amongst the eighty thousand intered there but can't find any information. Keep up the good work lad.👍
Fascinating, thank you 😊👍
Thank you
Really interesting it’s good to hear about local history. Thanks for sharing this and keep up the great work
Thank you John
Evening kev another boss video as always keep doing all the boss videos that you do mate
Thank you mate
Fascinating Kev, I look forward to the next video like this mate.
Thank you
Brilliant Kev, watching in New Zealand. ❤
Thank you
Brilliant that video mate, very interesting, keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you Mike
Fairly new sub first time commenting thankyou i really enjoyed this video i love history, and im fascinated by paranormal stuff please do more!😊
Thank you, I will do
Interesting video Kev really good info enjoyed that Brilliant
Cheers Brian
Great story Kev ! Really interesting, keep them coming your a natural mate ! 👍
Thank you Tony
My Nan worked in the little building that’s still there! Used to be a youth club ❤
Loved this so much Kev ❤Really interesting facts and I find your voice so comforting, could listen for hours 😂 Well done 👏
St marys park which is very near and was behind Westminster road baths has hundreds of bodies from the plaque or some diseases still there.
Do you know anyhing about this very small park or why there have never been houses built on it.?
Thanks kev.great vid.
I know St Mary’s park well, but never knew that about it. I’ll do some research
This was another I was thinking about...known locally as St.Mary's Park, Lester Gardens, between Walton Road, and Westminster Road, Kirkdale was formerly St. Mary's Cemetery.
A huge number of victims of the various Cholera epidemics that swept through Liverpool were buried here, including a number of my own ancestors.
As far as I'm aware, just like Grant Gardens on West Derby Road, it was landscaped and designated as a park by Liverpool Corporation, however the tens of thousands of bodies buried there were left interred and simply landscaped over.
Apparantly over 58 thousand buried there.most in dedicated numbered pits.major Lester had over a hundred thousand followers at his funeral.
50 years as the vicar and helped the many poor souls in the area.
Amazing history.the site names all who are buried there over 60 years till it closed.and what they died of and the age and sometimes occupation.as kids we played football there every night.
Vaguely remember being told we are plating over graves.
Fantastic video, really really interesting, you are a natural at this kind of stuff. Keep doing this sort of content as well as the other stuff.
Thank you Justine
Excellent research, very informative 👏🏼 of very grim times, still be bodies in those grounds no doubt, explains the hauntings 👻
Or at least remains of some bodies
Very interesting i am in Walton from Yorkshire i have lived here 20 years, go past the old police station all the time
It’s a shame they turned it in to flats
I've always wanted to get into metal detecting , you in a club ?
Fascinating video mate
Cheers mate
Wow...Brought some memories back there Kev, my neck of the woods also...
I was born around there, went to Fonthill school then Lambeth, use to have a milk & paper around as a kid before & after school. I remember there corner sweetshop opposite the school 😊
I remember the pubs in the area, drank & worked in them all 😂
You must remember Langtry House in the area...
I'll leave it here, got lots of memories of Kirkdale and the history, all changed 😢
Yeah I used to play footy at the back of Langtree house. And the shop opposite the school was Franks
@@Kevcupo lol "Franks" 👏 couldn't remember the name for some reason, some stories there 😉
Played footie everywhere, but always remember the all weather by the Phoenix, knees never been the same 😂
Who's that ??
Ex fonny Road and Lamby roader here to lol ! Lamby 1976-1981 👍👍
Great. I used to do Morris Dancing in this park. Called the West minister Star Lights. I also went to Fonthill rd School. Just for 2 years they used to talk about the "Grey Lady," and you have the Devils Ditch. There too or Devils Gauge... just by The Melrose Pub. There is a Lantry house for the homless. And the surrounding houses. One time.
I was visting a counsin. It was Halloween time.
I seen a man walking up her stairs. I seen the back of the legs. Going up her stairs.
She was in alone.
Great story. ❤ love real stuff 🎉🎉
Oh that’s really interesting thanks for sharing. Langtry house is long gone now unfortunately
Sissy, I remember the Grey lady with the lamp lol @ Fonny road School ! Was there from 1971-1976 👍👍
@@TheoriginalbigbrilloI was born in 76
Love the history of my city please do more!!🩵🙏🏽
Great video this Kev. paranormal video there next ?
Was waiting for the devils ditch to be brought up 🤣
I totally forgot to mention the devils ditch
Kev, really interesting vid. I'm from County Rd, but I know that park, and the stories of the sessions. Do you know who James Maybrick is ? his grave is in anfield cem. I think that subject could be well received once you know who he is . Keep up the great work mate
Yeah I know the James Maybrick story very well
Hi didn’t know about maybrick . Till you mentioned and looked him up, how scary always thought JR was Londoner. Or hasn’t it been proved that maybrick is J.T.R.😮
@@slavery5585 THere was a diary and pocket watch that surfaced in the 0's ( I think ) that were claimed to be Maybrick's detailing the murders. It was later proved to be fake. But the whole Maybrick and his wife story is very interesting
Kev do a paranormal there
Can remember going back in the 1980's,there was talk that Father Carney of Saint John's church performed some sort of mass & blessings in a few houses around that way. Due to people being afraid,they could hear screams & groans, chains clanking , ghosts. Just terrifying noises, of course it was connected to that kirkdale prison & what went on in it. Father Carney an old Irish priest of the parish passed away quite a few years ago now, what a pity he isn't here to explain. Great video very interesting .
Yeah I remember father Carney, apparently he carried out exorcisms
Every park must have a story, in some of the old parks and church grounds near where I had lived have burial mounds of alleged bubonic plague victims. I have always felt spooked being in a park at night [from the living and the dead]. I liked your ghost story; I guess it’s possible everyone has seen something but never knew what it was or are wilfully oblivious [everyone has a sixth sense]. I would love to see more local Liverpool history, specially the darker-side? I love your local stories and I guess it is good for your kids and grandchildren to see too.
Good video that Kev. Grew up in garnett avenue. That all weather pitch was brutal if you fell on it haha.
Nice one Shaun, I remember you. And yeah picking gravel out of the wound wasn’t fun 😂
Real interesting mate, love local history!!
Your K2 meter reacting and sightings of apparitions all makes sense, should imagine there are quite a few restless spirits in that area?
Would be great if you did a nightime paranormal search/walk? If you had the spirit talker app on your phone even better?
I never knew that. Good video mate Subscribed.
Thank you Graham, I really appreciate it
love what you do this one was great we mostly get to know about the obvious history bot this is more personnel and local please do some more and find some old guys an ladies to tell there story's of life in the city over the last 70 to 80 years well done thanks
Thank you mate, I’m gutted that the lady I spoke to wouldn’t get on camera
Thanks very much for the info. Was brilliant and interesting well done
Thanks James
That was a interesting watch well done lad 👌
Thank you mate
Really enjoyed this Thankyou
Thank you Nichola
Good video Kev, really interesting as that is round the corner from where I live. I was going to cover this in a video too but I won’t bother now 😂😂😂. Look forward to your next one.
Do a vid on it mate, you might cover stuff that I missed
@@Kevcupo 😂😂. Yours was thorough enough mate. Enjoyed watching your channel. You have a very good presenting style with your vids.
Great stuff Kev, I wonder what the history was of the old Bootle hospital.
I can look in to it
I worked as a barman in the sessions in 1971 I was 18 the manager was Norman Berket and the pub was well haunted
So I’ve heard mate, I’d love to hear some stories
Robbie, do you remember the Old Tannery behind the Pub 🤔🤔
P.S. My Dad was never out your Pub back back in the day lol 👍👍
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo no don’t remember but who was your dad
@@robbiematthews743
Vic (The Gun) Williams 🤫🤫
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo sorry no I don’t know him probably before my time
Very interesting, we played in the reck late 50s I to sixties as we lived in Ruskin St, the school was Fontill road & my mum went there, thanks.
Nice bit of local history that Kev
Thank you
Excellent video, very interesting, my Mrs grew up in that park. I used to play footy on the gravel pitch 😬
Brilliant
Enjoyed it thanks 👍😅
Cool stuff mate 👍
I lived in Garnett Avenue from the age of 8, and attended Fonthill Road School which is the old school you refer to.
There was a gate to the park in Garnett Avenue.
Yeah I think that’s closed off now
The wall around the prison is probably still there, I reckon all the building materials were sold and the top coping stones put back and now have railings mounted on them. Just my theory.
You could well be right mate
Have you ever thought of doing ' Grant Gardens ' opposite the Old Brougham Terrace ( now a Mosque ) registry office at the end of West Derby rd ?
There was an article many years ago saying there were many hundreds of bodies buried there ,they were never exhumed & they built the park in top of them . May be an interesting vlog ... 🤔
Yeah I’m going to look in to that one
Had some of my wedding piccys taken in there lol
Now yer tell me 🫣🫣🫣
Our large family moved from Lemon street kirkdale to ormskirk then back again to fountains road in the late 50s.
My mother got a job as a carer in kirkdale homes.
That was one scary place.
Think it was demolished before you lived there.
Looked a bit like walton hospital and the nearby stanley hospital.
Full of history around there.
Yeah they built a whole housing estate where Kirkdale homes once stood. And Stanley hospital is now a care home for the elderly
Those gate posts look original. Are they not from the prison? Because sometimes they keep them.
I’ll have to do some more digging, bare in mind that the park is 125 years old itself
Love the history kev brilliant 😊
Thank you William
What a gorgeous accent
I was born in Kirkdale great video lad
Thank you
Boss video as always mate
I live on Westminster road a few minutes away by foot ,behind the estate built in the 70s and it's creepy around here especially my house x
Cracking video mate! 😁👍🏻
Cheers mate
Hi Kevin very interesting I was born on Melrose rd and the house I lived in was haunted. And as for Robly house I worked there few times As it was owned by character mailing and was a strange building never seen anything but felt it brilliant information mate
Thank you mate, we must surely know each other
Carl was that the old envelope filling company of Sessions Road, if so me Mam worked there late 70,s when it was called Focus I think 🤔🤔🤔
That shut down then they all got moved to Steers house in town re-named McKintyre and king !!
@@Theoriginalbigbrillo hi yes your right I worked in character mailing that main building was and still is in heysham road. Character mailing got robly house about the time focus moved out I think but not sure they only rented the building did you mum see or sence anything when she was working there
@@Kevcupo hi Kev I follow you mate loved the anfield rd updates and the homeless stuff YNWA
@@Kevcupo hi I was born in Melrose rd only lived there for 6 years moved too bootle 1971
Very eerie an interesting vid well done ❤
Thank you Rachel
Boss bit of history that and love a good ghost story me :) I used to live by the old railway line by Springfield Park and the Sainsburys. The story was that a train had crashed under the tunnel and was buried there. Me, my brother and mates used to play around there, before it was the cycle path and remember this little lad dressed in old clothes (like shorts/dungarees and a shirt), standing up at the back of the tunnel and pointing up the track. We thought he was asking for directions (Don't remember him saying anything though which is strange) so we said yeah, just follow the track towards Broadgreen. He then steps down at the back of the tunnel and that's the last we see of him. There was a hole at the back of the tunnel but we didn't see him leave that way. He wasn't see through like you'd think a ghost would look like, just grey in the dark.
Wow that just sent shivers as it reminded me of the little girl I was on about
Grew up playing in the reck lived in Nith street went to st johns school a lot different around there now, had a weird experience on the corner of medlock street old woman dressed in old clobber telling me off, the kirkdale homes was a derelict building then spooky place too, nice one for the vid mate
Interesting video and well narrated too.
I’ve tried my best to
I grew up on Fonthill Road directly across from Kirkdale C.P., used to hear ghost stories about The Rec, about the ghosts of executed prisoners roaming the grounds at night, no wonder it has an eerie feel to it at night.
I’m going to look more in to hauntings if there are any
@@Kevcupo I think my mum's is definitely haunted, when I was a kid I used to have a stereo with the big speakers, I kept one of the speakers on top of a big wardrobe(to give a sort of surround sound effect) against the wall, one day my brother and I are on the playstation, when this speaker that was against the wall, came flying off the top of the wardrobe, just barely missing both my brother and I.
Fantastic, watched it 3 times. Very interesting
Thank you Gary, I really appreciate that mate
So interesting kev,remember as a kid years ago had hut in that was a play center,top corner entrance by school,also we called a place at the bottom by sessions pub devil's ditch.❤️
Thank you Shirley, yeah the devils ditch was a weird place
Remember as a kid the swings being about 3 stories high could touch the clouds, and sneaking out with my big maglite torch going in the robley house great times, enjoyed that history kev also theres tunnels in the medlock not sure where they go but maybe to the session? be good to find more land surveys / maps
Yeah I need to do a lot more research
Love our area mate a lot of history
Interesting story kev xxxx
Thank you Susan
Wonder what kirkdale homes was before it became a nursing place.?
Was it part of the grounds of the prison originally.?
I think they were two separate entities
I'm sure I heard, kirkdale homes was a work house x
Very interesting thanks
Thank you Ian
The wife was listening in on this and said he's good him proper scouse
Years ago about 2001 i went to view 44 suffield road and just walking around that house for 10 minuits felt very weird it was a horrible feeling, never took the house. I grew up just off easby road. Our house was built on the the spot the old stanley hospital was and that had some very strange things happen in that house.
A lot of people died in their homes in Suffield. Nothing sinister, just of old age
I remember going under the sessions pub with the landlady and it was scary. It went all the way under towards the wreck and she told us about it and went into the prison
I didn’t know that, was it a tunnel?
@@Kevcupo yes it reminded me of the cavern. Its a shame as I think it would be like the Williams tunnels but scary
I heard that where the Maypole was when we played there was where they hung people..
Cheers Kev, I really enjoyed this!good job
Thank you mate