Wavertree - Edge Hill Areas
Wavertree - One of Liverpool's most historic areas, possibly dating back to the stone age. Flint arrow heads and burial urns have been found here. There used to be a lake, where the children's playground is now, they filled it in for a playground!! :neutral:
I'll start with the Wavertree Round House and Lock up. Once used as an over night lock up for drunks, used in 1832 as a mortuary for cholera victims.
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Druids Cross Rd Wavertree or Allerton
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Wavertree is a delightful area and is really much more than the historic High Street area. Did you know the original Wavertree township extended as far as Druid's Cross Rd? I only wish the whole of the High St street could have an aesthetic make over to remove much of the 20th C over enthusiastic use of garish paint and signs. Here are a few photos I took a couple of years ago including one of the now lost, due to vandalism, pillar box on Sandown Lane End Quote
Max quote When did Druid's Cross become part of Allerton? End Quote
Druids Cross Rd was never in Allerton and isn't today. The township boundary between Wavertree and Woolton runs down the middle of Druid's Cross Road. The Allerton boundary runs down the middle of Green Lane , then skirts along Calderstones Rd. There's even an old Council sign saying "Allerton" at the junction of Menlove Ave and Crompton's lane. Yes this sign is in the right place but then its been there many years. Interestingly there is a boundary stone marker in Green Lane, Mossley Hill marking the separation of Wavertree from Allerton
St Barnabas Mossley Hill Wavertree
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Max
It's like Waterways saying Mossley Hill and parts of Wavertree used to be Toxteth.:eek:
Dear Max,
Mossley Hill is a legally undefined area spreading over parts of the townships of Garston, Wavertree, Toxteth Park and Allerton. The only legal attempt to define at least part of Mossley Hill was done by the Church of England in 1875 when it set out the parish boundaries for SS Matthew and James Church. These extended right down to Smithdown Rd and Wavertree Playground. The greater part of the SS Matthew and James Parish was therefore in Wavertree which came as far as the middle of Rose Lane. Its church school in Bridge Rd off Rose Lane was called SS Matthew and James School, Wavertree.
St Barnabas, Mossley Hill, Parish was carved out of SS Matthew and James Parish in 1900. Roughly half St Barnabas Parish is in Wavertree and half in Toxteth Park. With the development of Allerton Rd, Queen's Drive and Menlove Avenue, the post office called also this area Mossley Hill rather than the previous Wavertree but these areas of course still remained within the township of Wavertree's boundaries which extended as far as Druid's Cross Rd. There even used to be a Wavertree Girls' reformatory school in Druid's Cross Rd.
Up until about 15 years ago Dovedale Baptist Church, Mossley Hill was called Wavertree Baptist Church. Why because it was in Wavertree. This of course is just down the road from St Barnabas Church.
So St Barnabas really is in Wavertree despite the current erroneous beliefs that township boundaries equate to post codes which they clearly do not.
Incidentally, the Liverpool Echo is just as bad at this. They believe Earle Rd is in Wavertree. Why because everything that side of Smithdown Rd ought to be in Wavertree !! It reminds me of that famous Dr Who phrase " I deny this reality"
Hope this clears things up for you.
best wishes
Taffy