As a kid, and living in the 'Tennies' (Speke Rd Gardens) we could walk up 'The Avenue', over 'The Iron Bridge'' to a great area of land situated between the two railways, LMS Main Line, and the LNER Cheshire Line, this area was special to us kids, we could stand on the bridge as trains went by, and I can still remember the smell and the noise of the steam loco's as they sped by underneath. Also the sounds of the Skylarks in the summer, as they hoverered over their nesting sites in that grassed area between the railways! Fond memories!!! I hav'nt heard a skylark for years!! maybe because they are ground nesting birds they've all been killed off by suburban sprawl!