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Hertford Road. Not quite the slums of previous decades, in fact some mighty fine houses.
Stanley Road/East end of Hertford Road.
The old and the new side by side.
Looking towards Keble Road at the new developments with land ready for more
Swathes of land have been cleared around Queens Road, Exeter Road and College View, ripe for new developments. These roads are all named after Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges. This view is towards Balliol Road.
Some of Bootle's finest.
The Willows on Hawthorne Road. These 'Villas' were usually given names such as Rose, Clifford, Stanley etc...
Elaborate fire escapes criss cross the rears of these properties.
Off Exter Road
Merton Road
Oriel Road. Unlike Liverpool, not numbered from the Town Hall upwards. This row starts at No32 on the right then goes to No46 on the left.
The Leeds/Liverpool canal at Millers Bridge, looking south towards Liverpool past the back gardens of adjacent properties.
Then looking North, parallel with Canal Street.
A lot of Bootle's industry is obviously linked to the nearby docks. This is looking down Millers Bridge towards the Mersey and the Irish Ferry dock.
And closer up
An old warehouse street sign
Derby Road - and King Storage.
The newly revamped Oriel Road Station
The lengthy bridge accommodates the roadway over the split level rail tracks below
No, honest. I didn't stand there waiting for a train, it just came. It wouldn't have if I had been waiting for it though.
The old Pacific Steamship Navigation Company offices at Canada Dock branch No.2
Nortons crap, errr sorry. I mean Norton Scrap. Old car bodies and the like start life on the land side of the dock road and are crushed into cubes before further being broken down then transported across the dock road conveyor belt where they're dumped, forming a scrap iron ****heap.
It's thirsty work all this walking around on this pleasantly warm morning, let's try here.
No good. The former Clarence shut down a long time ago. This view is from Canal Street.
The Strand and the Triad. The shopping and business centres of Bootle.
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