Liverpool plans for prosperity : advert from the City of Liverpool official handbook, c1950
Three flags for three trading estates; those of Speke, Fazakerley and Kirkby. As the text tells the City of Liverpool were very determined to broaden the city's industrial base and trade in the mid-20th century and, in connection with the vast suburban expansion based on new social, or council housing, they were amongst many British towns and cities well ahead of the game.
The advert stresses the locations of not only the estates themselves but also of the city ; it was at the time one of the world's great ports with a huge industrial hinterland. The three estates did well in the growing economy of the 1950s and early 1960s and the city did attract new industries such as motor manufacturing, light engineering and domestic appliances.
Liverpool plans for prosperity : advert from the City of Liverpool official handbook, c1950
Three flags for three trading estates; those of Speke, Fazakerley and Kirkby. As the text tells the City of Liverpool were very determined to broaden the city's industrial base and trade in the mid-20th century and, in connection with the vast suburban expansion based on new social, or council housing, they were amongst many British towns and cities well ahead of the game.
The advert stresses the locations of not only the estates themselves but also of the city ; it was at the time one of the world's great ports with a huge industrial hinterland. The three estates did well in the growing economy of the 1950s and early 1960s and the city did attract new industries such as motor manufacturing, light engineering and domestic appliances.