Originally Posted by
collegepudding
You were pretty much correct in your post Oudeis.....The Test house covered roughly the present day area between Belmont Grove and the parallel stretch of Richmond Park.
The St Georges RC Industrial School Athletic Ground adjoined it on the site of the Present St Margaret's C of E School and was all part and parcel of the Workhouse complex . Before moving to the Workhouse Site the Mixed Industrial School had been at West Derby Rd and prior to that it was at the Netherfield Rd area.
The Girls School eventually split and moved to various locations.
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collegepudding
You've got my brain a bit muddled now
..I'm rather mixed up with the West Derby rd and Netherfield rd connections to the Lower Breck rd site
The ground you are talking about was a dog track in my nan's days - 'The white City' wasn't it??
In fact I can just about vaguely remember seeing the floodlights - I would have been very small, could have been late 1950s perhaps or even early 60s. Not sure when it went.
It was where the new St Margaret's school is now.
Well, I've never heard of the St G's athletic ground - although initially I was thinking Oudie was meaning an actual school or church (which there wasn't a St Georges in our area as far as I know) - well, not in my lifetime ..and I'm very old !
I've not heard of it mentioned before, but probably my elderly uncle would have known it - he went to St Margaret's school.. he was quite well up on his local history but no longer with us.
But it all fits regarding what you say about an athletic ground which was apparently taken over for further sporting use, ie, the dog track ??
I think I've worked it now -- a school which wasn't necessarily an Anfield school was using the grounds for sports ?
ps, CP do you remember the 'cubicals? ' with the little reception window on Lower Breck rd?
---------- Post added at 10:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 AM ----------
Originally Posted by
Oudeis
And there was me thinking early rocketry.
These sorts of places were in every town. There is a street in my home town that my mother was loth to venture down, silly superstitious thing that she was,. Debtors Prison, work house and down at the end...cemetery. Once you got into that street there was no getting out.
My nan was the same.
The workhouse was rock bottom for those in dire straits and was to be feared
The 'cubicals' I mention was spoken about in hushed tones !
..even in my times as a kid .. being a resident of the 'cubicals' would be the ultimate stigma. Although we didn't understand as kids about the plight of the homeless.
I think it was a place for what we have called 'tramps' or vagrants - and I heard of evicted families going in there.
I suppose the places were something like modern day hostels for homeless.
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