Everton District

[Ged]

Hiya Samp. I noticed a deffo one of yours on page 174, Dorrington st (where one of my classmates came from - but the 70s Dorro)

[chasevans]

Got hold of Ged's books on Thursday. I've finished reading the first two and I'm looking forward to the third one when I get a bit of time. Great bit of research, Ged.
Cheers,
Chas

[Samp]

Ged!

There is a sequence of photos showing the left hand side of Dorrington St coming down. I will see if I can post them up sometime.

[Ged]

Thanks Chas and Samp. I see a few of your in the book there Samp.

[Ged]

Hey, just found this while looking for something else and there's a few of my photos on it and a few that aren't mine (LRO) but that are credited to me. Seems well put together and worth a read.

http://j-fleming.com/

[nobbyrott]

Very interesting map, growing up in Anfield (and doing many a pub crawl on Breck Road) mots people there I am sure would have had Everton starting at Breckfield Road North and Robson St. Buy as has been said it was always a vaguely defined area.

***Referring to the Everton map on I think p.13

[Ged]

One of Georges old haunts perhaps.


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[GeorgePorgie]

I wus only young then,Ged...possibly one of me old fella's? although I fink The Northumberland was his haunt? that one in the pic was up Priory Mount end of Northumberland Terrace.

[Marty1]

]The Park on the Hill is a Load of Crap[/B]..How many Houses could have been built on that Land..How many people Do you see in that open area..Not many I can tell yer..

Apart from me Taking Me photies in the Dark at Half 6 the other Night.

The Park on the Hill was great in it's day (60s), it had a Bandstand, huts where they use to store things for us kids to play with, on open areas for football, you have to remember we had very little and the Park was somewhere for all the kids to go to. They knocked down Rupert Hill and bulit crap in it's place !

[GeorgePorgie]

The Park on the Hill is a Load of Crap

They knocked down Rupert Hill and bulit crap in it's place !

Couldn't agree more,you do know that half the landfill from the clearence was used to build the park as it is now.

I also agree that something like a 100 houses could have been built on that land and still enough ground for a largish park area,although having not seen what is below the ground I suspect that the engineers might have had their reasons for not building upon it? Sandstone is the dominent mass in that area and covers more than half of Everton.

[Ged]

Everton Park, the one created in the 80s was due to go from Heyworth Street right down to Great Homer Street, thereby doing away with Netherfield Road as a through road altogether. It was only down to the sit-in by the Langrove Street residents that didn't want to see their perfectly good homes demolished and it's those we have to thank that getting from Everton Valley to Shaw Street for instance isn't the drag it would have been.

Another drag is when you're on Scotland Road and want to get to Green Street. If your at St. Anthony's Church heading on the Southbound carriageway you either have to go down to Leeds Streets then double back at Vauxhall Road, thus doing a semi circle, or head down Wilbraham St, along Greaty Northbound, then go down Boundary Street then along the bumps of Latimer Street.

[Lizzie1]

Is it true that St Chrysostom's church in Aubrey St was demolished in error?

[Ged]

It was destroyed by Fire in 1972.

Here it is.

http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/tag/...ostoms-church/

[Lizzie1]

Thanks Ged, that's the church!.......... but the caption says 'Audley Street'??? I'm confused..........doesn't take much!!

[Marty1]

Do you have a photo Ged, and thanks for your fantastic site !