Originally Posted by
marky
The Dingle Tip picture is from 1927 (Dingle Playground/bottom of Turners Field)
Thanks marky. Here's some more images.
This is a view of Dingle glen from the path leading to the rocky outcrop known as David's Throne.
The view from Dingle Point (see OS map 1908, in the previous post) showing Knott's Hole (left) and the Dingle glen's walled embankment (right). The rocky outcrop David's Throne separates them.
An early painting known as "Knott's Hole", although it appears to have been painted from Dingle glen. A young family stand close to David's Throne and, according to Robert Griffiths (author of The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxeth Liverpool) - 'a few yards to the right is "Adam's Buttery", a small cave' which maybe the reason for their interest there, captured by the painter's hand.
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Also, there is an ornamental alcove [the white columned shelter with a domed roof] that housed
The Lady of the Dingle, a statue commemorating a water nymph that supposedly dwelt within the brook of the glen. William Roscoe composed a poem entitled
The Nymph of the Dingle, in her honour. The shelter can just be seen above the tree-line, in the distance. The statue, according to Robert Griffiths [writing in 1907], was moved to the grounds of the Turner memorial Home. Although I'm not sure whether it's still there, or not?
Bizarrely, a tennis court was marked-out in the middle of the glen, which looks a shadow of it's former self - presumably some years before they redeveloped the area. Sorry, I don't have a date for the photograph?
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