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Laura Davis

Do you know where these photos of 60s Liverpool were taken?

These incredible black and white images of 1960s Liverpool contain a mystery that we are asking ECHO readers to help solve.

They will form part of world famous war photographer Don McCullin's major exhibition when it opens at Tate Liverpool next month.

McCullin, 84, first visited the city as a 15-year-old boy when he had a job washing dishes in the dining car of a steam train that regularly travelled to the city from Euston.

From the early-1960s, he returned as a professional photographer, drawn by the scenes of post-war devastation, his friendship with Mersey poet Adrian Henri and the character of the Liverpool people.

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He said, in an interview with the ECHO last year: "What made me want to photograph Liverpool was the devastation around the Toxteth area.

"In the late-70s they started having a slum clearance programme and I photographed this wasteland of houses that should never have been knocked down.

"It looked like a scene from the city of Berlin, it was devastation on a massive scale. It was very photogenic."

Decades later, Liverpool looks very different to when McCullin took the photographs and Tate Liverpool is asking for help in identifying the scenes in the pictures - or confirming their own ideas about where they were taken.

If you recognise them, please let us know in the comments section below or email laura.davis@reachplc.com

Liverpool c. 1970 (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

Tate Liverpool believes this first image was taken somewhere around Cadogan Street in Wavertree, behind Archbishop Blanche school

MUST credit: Image courtesy of Don McCullin (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

Could this be the church next to Tesco on Park Road or perhaps the Welsh Church on Princes Avenue?

Liverpool 8 in the early 1960s (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

This could possibly be in the Georgian Quarter, somewhere around Falkner Square or Canning Street.

Liverpool in the Seventies (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

Do you recognise this Liverpool location?

Liverpool by Don McCullin (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

This could have possibly been in the Windsor Street area

Liverpool 8 1961 (Courtesy of Don McCullin)

This was taken in Liverpool 8 - but exactly where remains a mystery.

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