Garston News Views and Discussion

[sweetpatooti]

Bite Your Tongue Chris! Garston begins at Aigburth Hall Road (by the Cricket Club)

[Kev]

Bite Your Tongue Chris! Garston begins at Aigburth Hall Road (by the Cricket Club)

Isn't that the start of Cressington?

[ChrisGeorge]

Bite Your Tongue Chris! Garston begins at Aigburth Hall Road (by the Cricket Club)

Yes well maybe! The land where Stanlaw Grange stands near the junction of Aigburth Hall Avenue was granted to the monks of Stanlaw Abbey near Ellesmere Port by Adam de Gerstan. Also my grandparents home telephone number for their house at 76 Aigburth Hall Avenue was Garston 1777, later changed to Cressington Park 1777.

Chris

[Kev]

The recently built PC World as used in there latest adverts:


New houses were once The Red Lion used to be, one of Garston's oldest buildings, gone.

Houses were once the Bus Station used to be

Were the old Kwick Save used to be until recently

We'll wait and see about this one

[Kev]

I took a few more pics of Garston area and found some little gems:

The Old Dairy:








I don't know the name of this, I'm sure it used to be my old nursery.


The Slaughter House:








The Garston Pubs pics can be found here.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Kev

Fine photographs, Kev. In addition to the animal heads thread we may wish to begin a local datestones thread as well. In addition to the one you show I can think of a number of other dates on various buildings, including the long "built by Edward Norris 1598" inscription over the front door of Speke Hall and the 1605 datestone over the garden door at the back of the hall, the Legs of Man 1593 datestone that I saw years ago in an airing cupboard at Leasowe Castle when it was still a convalescent home before the castle became a hotel, etc.

Chris

[Kev]

Hi Kev

Fine photographs, Kev. In addition to the animal heads thread we may wish to begin a local datestones thread as well.

Chris

What a brilliant idea Chris . Lets do it!!!!!

[Max]

Isn't that the start of Cressington?

Theres a sign by the Cricket Club that says City of Liverpool Garston.

[PhilipG]

Theres a sign by the Cricket Club that says City of Liverpool Garston.

Is that one of the new signs?
There's loads in the wrong place, but the Cricket Club sounds about right for Garston.
Grassendale and Cressington are part of Garston.

[ChrisGeorge]

Theres a sign by the Cricket Club that says City of Liverpool Garston.

Hi Max

Now that you mention it, I believe that sign has been there for some time, hasn't it?

It might have been easier for Mrs. Maybrick, living on Riversdale Road, to have written in her autobiography Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Lost Fifteen Years (Funk and Wagnall's, New York and London, 1905) that she lived in Garston. It actually says she lived in "Aigworth" [sic]. That might have been a typo but I often think she might have written it that way. Specifically it states p. 21, "For business reasons we settled in a suburb of Liverpool called Aigworth."

Chris

[marky]

The new houses on the Red Lion site have the worst window-ledges I've seen...a line of bricks that aren't level, plus some still have the mortar holes showing.

[jimmy]

Kev, thanks for these fine photographs of Garston. Certainly some major changes going on. Merry Christmas Kev to you and yours.

[Kev]

Kev, thanks for these fine photographs of Garston. Certainly some major changes going on. Merry Christmas Kev to you and yours.

Thanks Jimmy, all the best mate

[wallasey]

I showed me dad some images of the houses being built next to ABP's; he couldn't get over how silly it all is. Who ever goes and lives in those new houses will have to be able to get on with the noise comming from the Port both during the day and at night. When I was there, there was certainly some activity going on there, and Garston Dock can get pretty busy at times.

I wonder how much those houses will be sold for once completed???

All the best to everyone this Christmas Eve

Russ

[Kev]

I showed me dad some images of the houses being built next to ABP's; he couldn't get over how silly it all is. Who ever goes and lives in those new houses will have to be able to get on with the noise comming from the Port both during the day and at night. When I was there, there was certainly some activity going on there, and Garston Dock can get pretty busy at times.

I wonder how much those houses will be sold for once completed???

All the best to everyone this Christmas Eve

Russ

The Cressington Heath devel?

They are proving very popular as are the ones in Garston Village, many young adults buying the Garston Village ones.