Hi Samp
I read a lot of local history when I was in Liverpool in the Sixties and also started my own unpublished "history" of the city and region based on what I read.
I think we should be careful about what was "actual" and what was only rumored or unverified. The sunken forest on the northern Wirral coast at Meols etc and on west coast of Lancashire near Formby seems to have been real enough. As for the "remains of a Roman road" found during the laying out of the Seaforth docks, that's a new one on me although Robert Griffiths in his
A History of the Royal & Ancient Park of Toxteth (original edition 1907) reported such a Roman road found in the area, as I recall, of Garston Old Road... or at least the paving of the road was said to be so regular that it had to be Roman. I am not sure it has ever been verified that it was actually a Roman road. There were also Roman coins found at Otterspool, so there do seem to have been Roman visitors to the area although the nearest Roman towns would have been at Chester, Warrington, Wigan, and Ribchester, with there being no actual Roman settlement, it seems, in the vicinity of Liverpool itself.
All the best
Chris
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