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Very nice work, wsteve55! It is hard to read, as you already know, but it's nonetheless a nice piece of local history that is still there, which is significant and very important for people to know about. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, wsteve55. :hug:Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
Chris
Anyone noticed this before or know what it was for. It's quite close to the Toxteth Boundary through Otterspool Park.
Otterspool: The boundary is very near, so who knows. It really needs to be matched up on a map though.
Here's something that caught my eye...imagine seeing this stone standing out from the leaf litter. I kicked the leaves away and there was a dead squirrel (I thought it was a rat at first).
At first glance I thought this bisected stone went deeper, but I think this is the full height. This is in Ibbotsons Lane, another area near the bounday of Toxteth Park. It just shows what red-herrings are out there, when looking for boundary markers.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...Lane_stone.jpg
Is that a grey squirrel too?
I saw this one on East Prescot Road (I think!!).
Was on the way to ST Helens.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/...08-07_1152.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/...08-07_1153.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/...08-07_1151.jpg
Good work, Taffy, Marky, and DaisyChains. :handclap:
Chris
Located in a private garden off Speke Rd opposite Banks Rd.
I had a feeling there'd be one around Garston/Speke. I stopped looking when I found an upturned kerb-stone, facing the old fire-station.
I'll have to check the 3 metal plates in Ullet Road, as I must have missed one in the fog the other day. There should be 2 on the Princes' Park side of the road that state 'Liverpool' and one on the other side that states 'Toxteth Park'.
Fine photograph, Taffy, well done! :PDT11
I remember seeing one when I was a kid in Rainhill or prescot on a day out, a few hundred years old just lying there un-vandalised, maybe that where we go wrong these days with plastic and aluminium, stone is too hard, people move on and leave it alone, good pics though from a time when a small stone on the side of the road stood out like dogs ballz and showed you the way, nowadays you probably need to look very hard to notice them
Thnaks Marky, didn't know about the Toxteth Park one on Ullet Rd. How interesting. The Garston boundary stone is relatively late, ca mid 1890s. I did wonder whether what you called an up turned kerb stone was an older boundary marker. I'll have to check some old OS mapsQuote:
Originally Posted by marky
Sadly just noticed the "Borough of Liverpool" metal boundary marker opposite Parkfield Rd has been stolen. Presumably this gross act of vandalism was simply to steal the marker for its cash value as scrap metal. Photos below taken in 2007Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
Ugh! Sad indeed! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
Here's the two remaining Ullet Road plaques. These are at the top and the bottom of the hill (as mentioned above, the one inbetween has now gone). I thought the missing one was the same as these, but had been half-buried beneath the pavement. Now we'll never know.
As mentioned on another thread, these are likely to relate to the drains (there is a map of the drain system around somewhere)
These come from a time when Liverpool was not yet a city and the Southern parts of Toxteth Park (Aigburth, Sefton Park, St. Michaels etc)had not yet been absorbed into Liverpool.
Borough of Liverpool (North side of Ullet Road)
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e..._Liverpool.jpg
Township of Toxteth Park (South side of Ullet Road)
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...xteth_Park.jpg
Absolutely brilliant Marky!Quote:
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I have walked up and down Ullet Road my whole life and never noticed these!
Where exactly are they?:)