Not sure if I should thank you for posting those pictures or not ;-) I haven't been down Edge Lane since they were just starting to pull stuff down, and hadn't seen the devastation before...
I wonder if Chris Ward had something to do with Edge Hill College. Those 1980s(?) houses are built on the site where Edge Hill College was before it moved out to Ormskirk (in 1933 I think).
The area round the Shipperies and the Fire Station has been down for a few months. I took some photos of it then, and
compared the view now and then on my blog using photos from Google Street View.