Wavertree - Edge Hill Areas

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Originally Posted by Max

It's now a playground! :mad:

Just by the Monks Well.

Thanks for the map Taff, but wasn't part of Smithdown only Toxteth when It was the Ancient Park only?

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Zero points ;o)

It was actually where the school once was, now the new flats. If you go down Thingwall Lane - where the roundabout is now but where there was once a corner - it was to the left - big pond and a massive tree!

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Originally Posted by Jona76

Zero points ;o)

It was actually where the school once was, now the new flats. If you go down Thingwall Lane - where the roundabout is now but where there was once a corner - it was to the left - big pond and a massive tree!

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This must be the place

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Originally Posted by taffy

This must be the place

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Gold star sir - the council finally found the name of the pond - and now someone's house covers the original meeting place at Wavertree :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Jona76

Gold star sir - the council finally found the name of the pond - and now someone's house covers the original meeting place at Wavertree :rolleyes:

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Get some bells near the house and use your bell ringing skills to make a noise so lowd, that the house will crumble.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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Originally Posted by taffy

No not really. The boundary shown on the map are those of the Wavertree Council. So when the Smithdown Rd area became developed (last quarter 19th C), those properties one side of the boundary paid their rates to Wavertree Town Hall and those the other side to Toxteth Town Hall. So the boundaries had a very modern meaning not simply an ancient one.

I have to say this confused me the first time I looked that this problem and before I was aware of the correct Wavertree/ Toxteth boundaries. This was because in looking up families living between Smithdown Road and Garmoyle Rd in the 1920s, I saw they said they lived in Sefton Park. This was because of course Sefton Park had been a district of Toxteth. I doubt whether they ever thought of themselves as living in Toxteth but they certainly believed they lived in Sefton Park and not Wavertree. This was confirmed by entries in the Gore's Liverpool Directory of the period.

Of course where the current Aldi shop is on Smithdown rd, there was once Sefton Park School, so named beacuse it was in the Sefton Park district. The nursery next door still calls itself Sefton Park Nursery.

Hope this helps to clear things up in your mind.

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U are a surprise box!! Why do u know too much of Wavertree?
Thanks to share photos, info about it!! :handclap:

Excuse the poor quality as it's been resized - but this shows Tunnel Road with those single story houses (that someone raised a question on) to the right hand side....!

Source - it's going on e-bay.

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Originally Posted by Jona76

Excuse the poor quality as it's been resized - but this shows Tunnel Road with those single story houses (that someone raised a question on) to the right hand side....!

Source - it's going on e-bay.

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We've found that they were not houses or cottages but offices for coal merchants.
The railway property is right at the back of the terrace, with not even back yards to them which proves they were not built for residential purposes.

If that picture is original, it will be one of the 1911 Police Strike postcards.
Apart from Titanic cards, they must be about the most expensive Liverpool related postcards.

Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Liverpool-Stri...QQcmdZViewItem

Does anyone know the history of this building or who owns it? It's situated just outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital on the right hand side.

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Originally Posted by Jona76

Does anyone know the history of this building or who owns it? It's situated just outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital on the right hand side.

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Jona, it has been a long time but I will tell you what I remember. I think this is the building that used to be a welding shop. The guy that owned it lived above it. He fought the council to stop it being demolished in the '70s and won. He demanded freehold property the same size in exchange instead of the paltry sum they offered him. All I remember about him is that he was fair haired and not very big in stature, his name was Jimmy. I knew him from him hanging out at the Blue Star garage in Smithdown Rd where the taxi drivers used to have a card school. He was an interesting person, he used to make metal puzzles which I never saw anyone solve, he could take them apart and put them back together and you hardly saw his hands move. He also used to carve wooden chains and give them away.

I saw someone vaguely matching that description going in there a few months ago-not that you'd think the place was actually lived in,given its appearance.

Dave.

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Originally Posted by skgogosfan

I saw someone vaguely matching that description going in there a few months ago-not that you'd think the place was actually lived in,given its appearance.

Dave.

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I last saw him over 25 years ago, he would be in his 60/70's now if he is still around.

a Wavertree township marker on Binns Road

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http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...a/DSCF0920.jpg

Thanks, MarkA. Great to see. :handclap:

I have copied your post to the Boundary Markers thread as well.

Chris

http://www.liverpool.ndo.co.uk/wavsoc/img0.gif

The only symbol worth using and turning Into a religion.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

SWEET!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I would brew Cherry Coke Instead though.

Looks similar to my family crest

http://www.baronage.co.uk/bpgif-03/b...s/andersob.gif

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Originally Posted by taffy

The red walls with circular holes are part of the entrance to a small linear park. A couple of more photos attached.

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When u took this photo, probably you were treading on my garden!! :PDT_Xtremez_42:

Mark isn't that the Anderson Tartan in the background.

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Originally Posted by drone_pilot

Mark isn't that the Anderson Tartan in the background.

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All is under control: Link

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Originally Posted by drone_pilot

Mark isn't that the Anderson Tartan in the background.

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Yes, that's my surname.

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Originally Posted by marie

All is under control: Link

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Now there's a pub crawl :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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Originally Posted by iain

Now there's a pub crawl :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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Been there done that, lost a day out of my life!

You start at the Coffee House and work your way down....

Lamb
Clock
Barley Mow
Town Hall
Cock and Bottle
Thatched
Cuffs
Chillies
....and so on. When you get to Wavertree Road/Tunnel Road you could branch off or carry on. Carry on and you'd get (Mole of Edge Hill - gone) Bears Paw...and in to town.

Grinfield street side you had the Oxford/Tunnels Bar...and so on.

First one to pass out wins :PDT_Aliboronz_24: :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I can't drink as much as I used to :rolleyes: , did the Smithdown Ten not that long back (when there still were ten pubs there) and had a bad bad headache the next day.

But then I did it on an empty stomach :PDT_Xtremez_42:

I'll keep a note of this one though!

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Originally Posted by iain

I can't drink as much as I used to :rolleyes: , did the Smithdown Ten not that long back (when there still were ten pubs there) and had a bad bad headache the next day.

But then I did it on an empty stomach :PDT_Xtremez_42:

I'll keep a note of this one though!

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Likewise - we used to have free bars at Sony every year and you would literally drink the bar dry, go home and get some sleep then turn up for work on the button the next day. Now I need to pre order me headache tablets if I have a sniff of the barmaid's apron :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Went past the town hall today and It's getting a new shiny coat of paint.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Saw I pigeon fly Into an open window In the hall once.

Somes pictures:

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A godlike area of Wavertree.

On Newcastle Road off Church Road, John Lennon's first house before Mendips Is down there somewhere.

The Mystery/Picton Park Is over the wall from me, but theres a rail line over the wall.

Great pictures Marie!! :handclap:

Nice photos Marie. :)

Where are those houses ? (5th pic). They look nice.

That'll be Church Road opposite the Blue Coat School - they're massive!

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Originally Posted by Jona76

That'll be Church Road opposite the Blue Coat School - they're massive!

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Two of those Church Rd. houses are quite famous. They were built as a competition between two builders competing for the contract to build the school.:034:

I love houses like that. Full of character.

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Originally Posted by Jona76

That'll be Church Road opposite the Blue Coat School - they're massive!

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Its my house!! :rolleyes:

Lovely houses Marie. :)

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Originally Posted by Jona76

Been there done that, lost a day out of my life!

You start at the Coffee House and work your way down....

Lamb
Clock
Barley Mow
Town Hall
Cock and Bottle
Thatched
Cuffs
Chillies
....and so on. When you get to Wavertree Road/Tunnel Road you could branch off or carry on. Carry on and you'd get (Mole of Edge Hill - gone) Bears Paw...and in to town.

Grinfield street side you had the Oxford/Tunnels Bar...and so on.

First one to pass out wins :PDT_Aliboronz_24: :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

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You must also do a slight diversion to the Edinburgh though

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Originally Posted by lindylou

Lovely houses Marie. :)

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I was jokin´!! This is not my house (about the 5 picture), my house its smallest than the other house!!
In Church St. are a lot of big and beauties houses. I usually walk about this street, when I went to Penny Lane area.

Is Abercromby Sqaure part of Edge Hill as I dunno what set to add my Abercroby photos to In my Flickr?

That's Toxteth isn't it Max?

Toxteth ends at Upper Parliament Street.