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Further south is the over engineered road leading to Speke Hall - Speke Hall Ave. Whilst this has come into its own since the expansion of the airport - how many can remember back in the years prior to the mid 80s when this was a dual carraigeway to nowhere despit it having been built in the late 1930s.
Dunlops was around there. Previously the Rootes aircraft plant. It assembled and tested US planes in WW2 that came over in knock down form, mainly P51 Mustangs. The boulevard would have been very handy for trucking the planes in from the docks. The boulevard was handy for traffic going through Hale village to Widnes.
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The boulevard was meant to service factories that were never built, as airport expansion was marked up in the 1950s.
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