The long walk, 1969

The Long Way Home - Bernard Fallon's Liverpool images

3 March to 15 July 2007

A view looking west down Everton Brow.

"Of endless interest, too, were the bombed dissections of houses and tenements where you could see pre-war wallpaper surrounding the ancient fireplaces repeated 3 floors up. Clearly framed memorials of air rage from the Blitz in the 1940s.

The damage worsened as the bus went along Stanley Road and passed into Scotland Road. Along this three-quarters of a mile there were huge gaps where terraced back-to-backs once marched up Everton Brow. The area was literally flattened as the city had demolished many homes and removed the residents miles away to new estates in Kirkby, Skelmersdale and Speke.

As one local wit said, 'What the Luftwaffe failed to do, the city corporation finished off'."

Bernard Fallon

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• Grain barge
• Prams, Crosby
• Wedding cake
• Chimney sweep
• Tug ropes
• Cigarette
• Cathedral and chimney pots
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