Familiar sights you don’t see on the streets of Liverpool anymore

Decades ago, seeing a Ribble bus driving down the streets of Merseyside was a familiar sight.

A large regional bus operator in the North West, Ribble Motor Services was founded in 1919 and operated until the late 1980s. Generations will remember heading to Skelhorne Street, which housed a huge double-decker bus station floors, opposite Liverpool Lime Street Station, to travel elsewhere on Merseyside or further afield.

Ribble was well established in the holiday tour business and offered trips to the Lake District, Scotland, North Wales and more. At one time Ribble also had warehouses like Aintree.

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The Skelhorne Street site opened in 1960 and closed in 1989 when Ribble ceased trading. Many will remember that part of the station became the Buzz nightclub, then the Zub, Metro and Pulse clubs.

Having recently looked back at its history in our region, I have since rediscovered these fascinating photographs of the Ribble in Merseyside, which have been unseen for years. Courtesy of our archives, Mirrorpix, you can see everything from buses and depots to staff and what our city looked like in years gone by.

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