The Best Things in Bootle, Merseyside*

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• The best thing I ever did was get the fuck out of there...... it's a big world people go forth and discover
• Hmmmm...... you got me there
• Old ale-houses, chippies, half-chips-half-fried-rice, no-necks, sausage dinners, sayers.
• every1 stuck together thats the best thing.... but The Derby & Secrets stand out as the best 4 me...
• every1 stuck together thats the best thing.... but The Derby & Secrets stand out as the best 4 me...
• Watts Lane. If ever there was a great place to live its there. The cemetary was so romantic on those foggy days back in the 60s
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• Miss Liverpool coming home in January. Born in Netherton Marie Curie Ave, Went to The Countess of Derby Highschool, moved to Bootle when I was 10. Went to Hugh Baird did a Hairdressing Course, moved to North Wales then to Australia in 1986. Been home 3 times miss everything mushy peas pork pies not the same here, stuffed myself with egg custards. Shopping in the Strand. Dad worked in the Chicken factory. See you soon Bootle
• Kerry's bar on the dock road. Formerly known as Nina's. Formerly known as the dockers hook. Cheap ale, strippers 3 times a week, cheap dock road prostitutes and they don't throw you out for smoking pot. Cool.
• Watching the Eden Vale play on Buckley Hill on Saturday Afternoons in the `70`s. Nearly always a fight. They weren`t a bad side either!
• THE PEOPLE EVERYONE GETS ON WITH EVERYONE.
• i love women im not a slag and i dont mean to be rude i am really sinsere get in touch with me to find out at wright962@aol.com i hope there is no charge
• the lineagei was born in bootle, my dad was born in bootle, we are talking the most honest man on the planet, does not get better, this man is 80 yrs and the best
• the whole of liverpool are just boss at havin a laugh an them who arent should be
• The best thing was being able to stagger out of Addisons totally wrecked and get some food down at the "No -Necks" chippy as it was commonly known!!!
• the pier head to sk8 and lost art
• BOOTLE BATHS IN THE PARK (LONG OVERDUE
• BOOTLE DEBS IS ONE OF THE BEST MORRIS DANCING TROUPES IN THE NORTH WEST. IT HAS BEEN GOING OVER 20 YEARS AND HAS WON MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS. THE IS A BABIE TROUPE A NOVICE 1 & 2 TROUPE, 2 TINY TROUPES, A JUNIOUR TROUPE AND A SENIOUR TROUPE. IT HAS VERY DEDICATED MEMBERS AND SPENDID DANCERS
• bootle has the best girl morris dancing troupe in the world the bootle debs established twenty nine years ago and championship winners many times bootle has a great community feel and everyone is freindly
• The best thing is the people. I miss them so much.
• I left Bootle for personel reasons and most of all I miss the people, neighbours and friends, the atmosphere, sometimes good sometimes bad, but never boring. It's been ayear since I left, not that far away but I'm still homesick and will always considor myself a true Bootle-ite, as I have been for 30 odd years.
• The new leisure centre in North Park is pretty good, with a well equipped gym and various pools.
• ...in life are free! The Shine
• John Parrot the snooker player came from Bootle
• CHANS CHIPPY ON HAWTHORNE IS A DEFINITE MUST-SEE..THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE LIKE IT ON EARTH..ALTHOUGH THERE MAYBE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO IT NEARER TO THE EARTHS CRUST, ONLY MATHS AND SCINCE WILL PROVE THAT..
• Spenso@ lemonade factory on Stanley Road.
• Workers from Williams Toffee works throwing boxes of toffees out of the windows to kids waiting down below
• Dolly's little sweet shop on Ford Bridge. She was home to us kids stopping in to buy sweets and say hello.
• Keith Chegwin left!
• Sir John Betjeman once wrote a poem about Bootle (not as nasty as 'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough...')
• The bloke who wrote 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' is buried in a pauper's grave in Walton Cemetary
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• It's very quick to leave Bootle and go to Liverpool which is much more interesting

• Bootle has great street names. I love Bibby's Lane! Wonder who Bibby was?
• I too used to walk down Bibby's Lane waiting for the ghost to appear but it never did.
• Boegart Bibby here... I can tell you that "bibbing" is a term for drinking. "Bibby's Lane" was probably more well known as "Down Where the Drunkards Roll".
• The Bibby in Bibby's lane refers to the shipping family, who used to own big chunks of Bootle along with the Molenyeux's.
• The Hawthorne in Hawthorne road refers to Nathaniel Hawthorne the american writer who was American Ambassador to the Port of Liverpool, and lived near the Jawbone pub (which still had a whales jawbone in it up to the early eighties), Liverpool and Bootle being a big whaling Port.
• Bootle also has a minor football team , which in the early days of the FA far out shone Everton and Liverpool, and had what is possibly the first FA Cup song, in the 1890's, for a tie against (I think) Blackburn, with an amusing ditty entitled "There's going to be a Game Today Proud Bootle will be there." Needless to say they lost.
• Also the biggest thing about Bootle is the GIRO Bank, I saw Harold Wilson open it when I was a kid, I was gutted as they built it on some of the best footie pitches for miles.
• Other stars from Bootle are Chris Crummy who was a drummer with the Searchers and Billy J. Kramer who sang "Listen do you want to know a secret" Billy's family lived by the Orrell Park library.
• The people who live in Bootle. Funniest people on the face of the earth. I am proud to say I was born there.
• Keith Chegwin is the best, although Bootle smells slighly of fish!

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Last updated: 2010-03-06