What a sorry state it's in. I liked Brookside - before it went a bit strange with all that cult stuff.

what a shame, i used to love brookie

what a shame, i used to love brookie

I liked Brookie in it's early days but it did become a bit implausible - or at least seemed so at the time - now all soaps are like Brookie.  Seems a waste to me.  To recollection, the last thing I heard, when the show ended, those houses were being sold privately for good prices, I guess that may be wrong.  Not being at all familiar with the geography of Liverpool or its suburbs, maybe that area is particularly economically depressed and no one's interested?

I liked Brookie in it's early days but it did become a bit implausible - or at least seemed so at the time - now all soaps are like Brookie.  Seems a waste to me.  To recollection, the last thing I heard, when the show ended, those houses were being sold privately for good prices, I guess that may be wrong.  Not being at all familiar with the geography of Liverpool or its suburbs, maybe that area is particularly economically depressed and no one's interested?

I won't look at the pictures.   I loved Brookside.  It was always way ahead of the times.  They weren't afraid to tackle issues.

Brookside was my favourite soap

Aw... I loved Brookside too!  It was my fave!

I lurved Damien....  cried like a baby when he got murdered!

& the first Brookside late nighter.... "The lost weekend"... my mate had that on video... twas the first time anything like that had been done... the daddy to the hollyoaks late nighters now.

Tis outrageous those houses being left like that.  Surely a waste of C4 money! or whoever owns them.  Surprised they aren't crack house squats or something.


(I loved Elderado too... well I loved it the moment they announced they were axing it... it got dead good then!)

Brookside. Barry Grant. Nuff said.

what a waste

What angers me more about that is that there is a housing crisis in this country and those lovely houses are just sitting there getting damp!

a shame they r damp and wasted

That could so be taken another way

 could it? - wonders which way they could be taken

I shall leave you with that thought

Have said goodnight next door but will do so again here, g'night!

 thinking
g'nite

I always wanted a house like a "Brookside" house when I was a teenager.  And here I am in my 1980's house, yay!!!!

I can't remember the details but I am sure there was a problem with the houses...  I have a vague recollection about them meant to be put up for sale.. but for some reason (structural I think) they couldn't be put on the market.

If I could be bothered I would google it - Iater maybe...

i used to lurve brookie too so it is sad to see them like this

The houses are in Croxteth, which, like most parts of the city, has its good and bad areas

I remember the actor who played Jimmy Corkhill was part of a consortium who wanted to buy the houses and turn them into a tourist attraction, they did not win the bid

I think the builders who bought them went bust may be wrong there but they do look, from the pics, that they were in the middle of being done up ???

its sad to see anyway

If you look closer at the pictures the houses are being done up..there's new windows in them and new roofs some are in the middle of being re felted....

I wouldn't buy one of those houses, you never know what you'll find under the patios!

I loved Brookie!

Barry Grant....yep...

I loved Brookie, watched it from the start, I've still got the final 6 months worth on tape, It all went down hill to me the more they gave Jimmy Corkhill to do. Him and the Murray family, I'm up to the point where Bernie Nolan was killed off in a peteol garage fire, I will get round to finishing it at some stage.

Barry Grant for me too

That's such a shame - I loved Brookside in the early days, with Bobby and Shee, and of course Barry and Damon.