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    Quote Originally Posted by matchworks
    cressy park is quiet all the time i take my son(5) down there all the time.great sunsets and watching the herons feeding, along with foxes which we've spotted on the beach a few times.also seen a few fish which have been stranded by the tide.6 numbers and i'm there.
    Foxes on the beach? Wow - I'll have to look out for them. When we were kids, we used to take our buckets down there and wash cars for a couple of quid. We got chased most of the time.
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    Foxes on the beach? Wow - I'll have to look out for them. When we were kids, we used to take our buckets down there and wash cars for a couple of quid. We got chased most of the time.
    the foxes head towards the wood yard in between the docks,probably up the wall now they've got the builders in.

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    Default Grassendale Park.

    hi all,
    just wondered if anyone had any idea's, on what this is/was? It's on the river,at grassendale park,I thought,maybe a private slipway at one time?

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    I'm thinking it was a walkway onto the 'beach'' for Victorian residents? I've wondered about that too, ever since I was a kid.
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    I thought it might have been a slip road for people to launch their boats?
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    Maybe as Kev says beach access, wrecked ain't it ?

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    It is but still in original condition. the original entrance to this is located just as you cross through the entrance on the rights as you enter the 'park', probably well overgrown now.
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    Some nice drawings here of the area
    http://www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/pages/page2.htm
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    Thanks Kat, here's the entrance to the park with the start of the 'slipway' visible on the right.

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    Lovely Photo, Kev,
    I lived in cressington for a while so know the area reasonably well, I think its all a conservation area too.
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    Here's a few more pics ->

    Another possible entrance to the 'beach' in bygone times when the area was clean.





    We used to climb over and slide down the side onto the rocks below when we were kids (about 10 years old).











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    Great pics Kev

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    Thanks, love the new avatar, very appropriate
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kev View Post
    Thanks, love the new avatar, very appropriate
    I agree

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    Quote Originally Posted by wsteve55 View Post
    hi all,
    just wondered if anyone had any idea's, on what this is/was? It's on the river,at grassendale park,I thought,maybe a private slipway at one time?
    I think it's one of the old points of access to the Mersey in these parts before Grassendale Park came into being. It was probably built up a bit in order to manage the Mersey mud! Where the modern houses are now situated (on the Otterspool side) there used to be fabulous mansion houses that had their own drives leading to Beechwood Road.


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