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    Default Anfield Area

    Here's an old pic . It hasn't changed much.



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    Gosh! Look at the state of the green triangle. It's a million times better cared for today.

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    Isn't that triangle of land where the phone box was situated in the Julia Wallace murder case.
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    A great pity that the picture wasn't taken from the reverse angle, it would have shown the Cabbage Hall cinema!(now Liverpool F. C. Supporters Club, but with a new frontage)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirob View Post
    A great pity that the picture wasn't taken from the reverse angle, it would have shown the Cabbage Hall cinema!(now Liverpool F. C. Supporters Club, but with a new frontage)

    Hard luck,Keith!

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    I believe they used to have public hangings there in the old days, hence the name, Hang field, later became Anfield!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Samp View Post
    I believe they used to have public hangings there in the old days, hence the name, Hang field, later became Anfield!
    I have heard it said that Anfield was named because of hangings .. but I never heard anything about it being on the triangle !!
    I have also heard that the district was named 'Ann's Field' -something to do with a dwelling called ' Ann's cottage - which can be seen on very old maps.

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    I believe they used to have public hangings there in the old days, hence the name, Hang field, later became Anfield!
    That's another one of these concientious definitions: Anfield was certainly called Hangfield (or Hongefield) but this is largely thought to reference the fact that the land 'hung' or sloped downwards from Everton Brow and nothing to do with hangings.

    If it was named after a gallows there is no evidence of where these gallows where, or indeed why they would hang people in fields miles away from any major village, hamlet or roadway. Gallows were usually erected just outside the city walls on a prominent location such as a hill to act as a deterrent for any who may cause trouble.

    The gallows of ancient Liverpool were located on the hill that is now London Road as can be evidenced by the name of the mill that was once there, Gallows Mill (a picture of it can be found here:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...llows_1825.jpg). It was at these gallows that James Stonehouse records his grandfather rememberd seeing seven men hanged following the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.

    Also the usual name for a place of hanging would be Gallowfield (of which there are several in the uk) not Hangfield.

    I also noticed the Cabbage Hall pub isn't in the original photo.... well the current building at least. I've always wondered where the telephone box in the Wallace murder was, are we 100% certain it was on the triangle, if so... cool
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    Yes, the phone box was most definately there - - just by where there is a bus stop now - but set back from the bus stop, on the edge of the grassed area.

    re name of Anfield : Interesting info.

    Yes, I have heard that too about the 'hanging fields' - or the land which slopes down from Everton ridge.
    I have a very old book which describes the crossroads of Breck rd/Everton rd/Heyworh st as having a stone cross which was a general meeting point for trading and change over point for travellers. It was also known to be a notorious spot for Highway robbers !

    re Cabbage Hall; I've seen old paintings and sketches of the original old Cabbage Hall which was situated on the Breck rd side rather than where the present pub is located on the bend with Walton Breck rd. (looking at the original photo you can just make out signage for Ales on the side wall.
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    The most notorious place for highway robbery is now Westminster, london.
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    This triangle also has a large boundary stone:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    The most notorious place for highway robbery is now Westminster, london.
    And I thought it was Motorway Cafe's

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    The most notorious place for highway robbery is now Westminster, london.

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    Highway robbers in Anfield? D'ya reckon they were the ancestors of the takeaway owners on matchdays?

    In my research using late 18th/early 19th century newspapers, it's amazing how dangerous the area between Edge Hill and Old Swan was, not a month goes by without a report of someone being robbed 'near Wavertree' or 'On The Prescott Turnpike'.

    I imagine most areas outside the immediate boundries of Liverpool were pretty lawless bandit country, all those rich gentlemen travelling eh? Easy pickings.

    [EDIT: Ah bleeding hell, i've just remembered the newspaper cutting in which I first read the 'Hanging Fields/Gallows Link'. It's only bloody Slemen isn't it - although I suspect this one might be one of his copied... sorry 'researched' ones.]
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