Norris Green Croxteth Districts

[Ged]

I was up there the other week, the estate with the Red Rum pub on it, I put it on the pubs thread. Very desolate looking now, a vast expansive estate soon to be demolished and hopefully rebuilt.

[Kev]

To regeneration for that area, may the future be bright, at last.

[Paul D]

That estate is on the site of what is to be Stonebridge Cross,the block of flats at the end of Lowerhouse Lane is to be demolished also.

[MarkA]

St Swithin's Church (well no longer as it's a community thing now)



In the graveyard

CAPT. THE HON. ROGER GORDON MOLYNEUX LATE 10th HUSSARS AND 1st DRAGOONS
YOUNGEST SON OF THE THIRD EARL OF SEFTON BORN JAN 4th 1849 DIED SEPT 9th 1893 AGED 44 YEARS


Site of the old St Swithin's Church from the early/mid 1800's




They demolished the old church/club about 5 years ago after giving 3 days notice. Unless they filled them in, there's a crypt underneath still.

[caterina]

Is it still standing are there any photo,s also Clanfield Road Please

Thanks Caterina..

[Ged]

Yes, both still there, as you know Stalisfield Ave is a long road joining Muirhead Ave East with Utting Avenue so it's unlikely that will ever go, my mate lives in its mirror image, Lewisham road. Both roads have circular roads spiralling off them and was laid out in the 30s as a new housing estate by Sir Lancelot Kaey.

[caterina]

Thanks Gedi i was just wanting to know if still there and curious as that, the address where my mum was living at on a certificate as i am only now finding out slowly about my Liverpool Relatives and ancestors..


Caterina..

[AK1]

The three blocks of flats next to the showcase (as seen in the above pic) are under demolition. Went past today and was quite amazed to see a kind of large digger hacking at the side of one of the blocks. I always thought that they would be blown down. Either way, it's great to see them finally going.

[johnmed]

It's funny isn't it.. I just presumed the flats on Everton Brow would've been blown up, but they were hacked down too.

[PhilipG]

The three blocks of flats next to the showcase (as seen in the above pic) are under demolition. Went past today and was quite amazed to see a kind of large digger hacking at the side of one of the blocks. I always thought that they would be blown down. Either way, it's great to see them finally going.

Whenever I've taken photos of the Showcase, i've always included those tower blocks.
They made a good background.
It was a few weeks ago I was there last - I'll dig out a photo.

[Ged]

There are some good 'deconstruction' vids and pics of high rise blocks on the Sloyan Doyle website. I don't know what decides an explosive end rather than a hacking?

[PhilipG]

5 April 2007.

[Kev]

Something that I've wondered about for a while about those blocks, why have the bottom few floors on each been boarded up? Have people still been in them?

[Paul D]

Something that I've wondered about for a while about those blocks, why have the bottom few floors on each been boarded up? Have people still been in them?

They're about to be demolished Kev,most of the window frames have been removed now.

[PhilipG]

The first one is almost gone.