Originally Posted by
PhilipG
Dear Wallasey.
Speaking as a self-proclaimed local historian, I enjoyed reading your captions, and hope you will continue.
I didn't find anything to strongly disagree about, and you are right to say that some of the large houses around Sefton Park have been demolished.
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We all make mistakes, and even Derek Whale has made some.
He shows a picture purporting to be a house at the Dingle, when it was in fact Elm Hall.
Wikipedia is only as reliable as the people who contribute to it, and I can't see it getting much better.
Libraries are the places for original research.
I'm trying to think which houses have been demolished on Aigburth Drive shown in Wallasey's pic. Most of the new build or post Victorian build is on ground that was previously empty or part of another property's garden.
This is probably me just being touchy but, arguably, the thing about writing a caption for a pic that is more than a sentence long is that it should capture something extra. Stating that some of the houses have been demolished can create (in a Liverpool context anyway) a false impression - a sense of dereliction that couldn't be further from the truth. Whilst it is true that there are still some flats to be had for peppercorn rents, most of these houses contain the most expensive 'apartments' on the market outside city centre penthouses. These houses are HUGE. I can't think of anywhere else in the country where there is such a concentration of such huge monsters.
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