Garston News Views and Discussion

[Jericho]

It looks as though it's still held on Fridays according to this:

http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/Leisure_...?render=liquid

I'm not sure where the urban village is unless they mean opposite the old baths. I have often seen stalls set up there by the row of shops but not as many as 40! So the 'urban village' might well be elsewhere.

[Kev]

The Garston Market is slap bang in the middle of the village on a Friday.

[PhilipG]

LOL! That's fine - I'm not writing for your entertainment or erudition.

Judging by your recent posts, you're not writing for anybody's entertainment or erudition, if the best you can do is make p*ssing jokes.

[Jericho]

Thank you for that helpful comment, Philip. Do you think we can get back to talking about Garston?

[Kev]

I hope so or I'll regrettably close the thread

[taffy]

Spot-on Taffy, thanks for the pics and info. I never knew that despite knocking around the area for years as a kid playing there. There was a little rd amongst that lot called Railway Street that was supposed to be the oldest rd/ street in Garston, can u confirm?

Cheers

Railway Street Garston will have been built after the railways arrived in Garston, so it cannot be one of the oldest streets in Garston. The railways really arrived with the building of the docks. From memory the first dock was built in the early 1850s. Looking at old maps, the old roads in the village appear to be Church Rd, Chapel ,Speke rd, Woolton Rd. The original village was centred around the Speke Rd/Church rd junction

[lindylou]

The Garston Market is slap bang in the middle of the village on a Friday.

It never used to be in the middle of the village (according to my other half) There used to be a proper gated market site - can't remember the name of the road where it was. It used to be on Tuesdays & Fridays.

Think we did hear something about that market site finishing a few years back.

[sweetpatooti]

No it didn't Lindy you are right - it was in Island Road South - it's been moved into the village now by the Iceland since the council sold the markets to the French - it's not too bad but no Tuesdays only Fridays and no egg woman or wet fish!!

[john]

I remember the old market before it went down the nick, my gran would spend hours at the material man in the inside market.

[Norm NZ]

The Garston Dingle was a valley that run down to the River Mersey past St Michael's church and the stream in the valley powered the old Garston Mill. So I think the Dingle Bank refered to in the Echo article actually refers to the raised embankment behind the recently demolished property opposite St Michael's Church. This includes the old mill site which is awaiting archeological excavation. This embankment was built to handle coal waggon sidings for the Garston Docks. Attached are a few photos of the area. The embankment is a fly tippers' paradise these days

I think you are 'spot on' Taffy, from memory, Dingle Vale and Dale St, are a couple of those 'dead-end' streets off King St, and bottom end of them would be adjacent to the coal storage area for the docks.

[john]

My family lived in Dale View off Kings Street.

[Norm NZ]

My family lived in Dale View off Kings Street.

My Gran (and Mum) lived in Dingle Vale (Garston) but that was way back in the 1920s!!! PS. On the Dingle Bank subject ,the 'sidings' for the coal wagons were situated just around there, (on the dock area) awaiting their 'shunt' down to the 'coaling dock', where the 'coal lifts' were situated.

[taffy]

Spot-on Taffy, thanks for the pics and info. I never knew that despite knocking around the area for years as a kid playing there. There was a little rd amongst that lot called Railway Street that was supposed to be the oldest rd/ street in Garston, can u confirm?

Cheers

Further to my earlier reply to this query, I've just located my copy of Garston and District Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill entitled " The 800 years of Garston Mill", published Feb 2004. The mill was sited almost opposite St Michael's Church and close to Railway St.

The monograph says that Railway St was built around 1875 or so. It was built on the site of the infilled mill pond which had originally stored water for the undershot waterwheel at the mill. The water came from a stream variously known as Garston Brook or Allerton Brook which flowed down to the River Mersey past St Michael's Church and formed the gently sloping valley causing the slight inclines at the beginning of Speke Rd , St Mary's Rd and Church Rd.

[Kev]

Taffy, excavation work starts next week on the mill site.

[taffy]

Taffy, excavation work starts next week on the mill site.

Thanks for the info. Must go along to have a look !!