Just across Menlove Avenue is Woolton Village which is on the surface a pretty suburb of Liverpool which to a large extent retains the vestiges of village life in the face of an ever-encroaching and all-encompassing "improved way of life" which means in effect more traffic and more housing estates, just two factors which have sounded the death knell of suburbia all over England.
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Woolton Street from High Street towards
the Coffee House pub in Woolton Village.
The history of Woolton dates from the Iron Age and is named after a Seventh century farmer called Wulfa. His homestead was his "tun" and Wulfra's tun translates quite easily into Woolton. Quarry Street is the site of a vast excavation of sandstone used for the Anglican Cathedral and across the road are the cottages of the workers built of the same stone.
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