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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Tobin

Fascinating car ride through a 1980s Liverpool is a trip down memory lane

This incredible video footage of Liverpool in the 1980s will take you on a trip down memory lane.

Walking around Liverpool City Centre today, it's almost impossible to imagine how differently it looked just 40 years ago.

With every redevelopment that's come our way, several areas of the city we are so familiar with look almost unrecognisable in older images.

Back in 2016, the ECHO shared this incredible 1980s footage of a drive through the city centre, which captures just how much things have changed.

The footage, which was posted on YouTube by kevmail, shows a car journey from the Anglican cathedral via the city centre to Park Road in Toxteth in 1986.

The video also offers a glimpse of 1980s hairstyles and fashion, as the filmmaker zooms in for a closer look at pedestrians.

The journey takes the driver and his passenger along Berry Street before a brief stop at traffic lights by the Bombed Out church and Cabin Club.

They then head along Renshaw Street, take a left turn at Ranalegh Street and continue along Hanover Street, before heading onto the waterfront.

Some of the most striking features of the video for Scousers today will be the car’s journey past a bustling Lewis’s and a pre- Liverpool One Hanover Street – including the old ELS furniture store on the left, roughly where Tesco is now.

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