My first post on Yo Liverpool!!
There is a Greystoke house along Aigburth Drive. I thinks It's actually one of the best of the Sefton Park Mansions.
My first post on Yo Liverpool!!
There is a Greystoke house along Aigburth Drive. I thinks It's actually one of the best of the Sefton Park Mansions.
Thanks Kev. Hope I can contribute to some really interesting discussions happening on this site.
A warm Hello and Welcome to you Ingo
The people on here are a smashing bunch-i look forward to your posts.
Has anyone got a picture of the Greystoke house Ingo has mentioned please, i would love to know its history if anyone knows please
Jacky Ohh i am excited now !!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by Lady; 05-22-2007 at 06:08 PM.
Nice looking building.
Think I've passed a sign saying Woolton Manor.
Gididi Gididi Goo.
Know the place well. My nan was in there about 12 years ago when she was passing on to the next world and she was on the top floor. Not the best circumstances to nose about I grant you but a lovely lovely building which has been gladly kept.
Borrowed this from E-bay:
Hi Kev,
Great photos of the remnants of the old Manor House at Allerton golf course.
It has good memories for me as I started playing golf there in the late 1960’s.
The north end of the building used to house a café until the stable’s upper floors were revamped into Allerton & Dudley Golf club.
There is a picture of the main house in its former glory hand on the wall of the golf club bar, which my be of interest to you.
I have attached a link that has some fantastic prints of the Great houses and Halls of our part of Lancashire,
Regards
Chris Brown.
http://www.lancashiregallery.co.uk/4515/4680.html
I was born and lived within five minutes walk of Allerton Tower, and remember playing around it before it was unfortunately destroyed, as happened to too many of the old historic large homes and estates around the Woolton/Allerton area.
The part that remains I have always understood to be the Orangery leading off from the main building.
There is a gatekeepers residence still there off Woolton Road.
I am not sure on this, but did I understand someone to write referring to it as Allerton Manor.
Allerton Manor was the estate right next to it, and eventually became the Allerton Golf Course to my knowledge.
On my last trip home I visited where the old manor was located, where it acted as the golf clubhouse, and found just a sad picture of what it used to be, the front columned facade almost gone. I had the feeling they were goingb to knock that down, instead of keeping it to incorporate it into a new clubhouse.
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[QUOTE=Kev;84295]Had a walk around Woolton Manor this afternoon whilst visiting my grandad:
I was surprised to see you refer to this home as Woolton Manor.
Living 5 minutes away from where I was born and lived, in Vale Road, I always krew it as the Convalescent Home, used for people with the likes of TB.
In the wartime it was occupied by the RN as a hospital, and I used to go there to the dances they held, as I was friendly with a WREN stationed there.
In those days of severe food rationing I enjoyed the food spread at intermission.
I last visited it a couple of years ago to find out it was an old folks home.
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