Dingle Glen in Old Photos

[dazza]

The name "Dingle Glen" never existed.
It's only ever been called "The Dingle".
The top of the bridge is visible, just a few yards from the mouth of the tunnel.
It can be seen from the train.
And probably with a good zoom lens from St Michaels Station.

Thanks Quentin, and welcome to the forum. You pay me too big a complement, as I'm also learning new things here on Yo! But thanks all the same.

"Dingle Glen" as you rightly point out doesn't feature on the maps, or anywhere else for that matter. So far, I've only found one reference to it, in Robert Griffiths' book, The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxteth, Liverpool, writing in 1907. I have since heard "Dingle Dell" - and "Dingle Days" being referred to, as the days in which the misses Yates would allow public access to The Dingle.

The bridge. I did wonder whether it still existed [albeit, in some subterranean form?] Thanks for the confirmation. I'll take some photos of the bridge top-side, next time I'm in the area.

I hope you enjoy your time here at Yo!

[ChrisGeorge]

I'm very impressed by Dazza's attention to detail, so much so that I've joined this forum as, sometimes, I might be able to add something.
The name "Dingle Glen" never existed.
It's only ever been called "The Dingle".
The top of the bridge is visible, just a few yards from the mouth of the tunnel.
It can be seen from the train.
And probably with a good zoom lens from St Michaels Station.

Hello Quentin

Welcome to the forum.

You are right in a sense... because a "glen" and a "dingle" are the same thing, so using both words is overkill--

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/dingle

C

[az_gila]

We never went to Colemendy either - none of the schools in Anfield went as far as I know. I don't know anyone who went either.

Kids in Liverpool 8 didn't go to Colemendy - well I never knew any that went. Our school never took us. That for the others not us.

...I thought everyone went...

I am sure it was owned by the Liverpool Schools....
Perhaps it was just certain high schools?
Essentially everyone at Quarry Bank went, and IIRC my sister at Aigburth Vale went too...

[dazza]

Thanks for the photo WW. I've orientated the 1906 OS map around, so that it matches the photo in scale and direction. The tunnel entrance can be seen just to the right, and the ground embankment seen on the map is still present on the photo. Also, there seems to be some ground settlement either side of the bridge.

What do you guys think?

[ChrisGeorge]

Didn't we have a thread about Colomendy? I went several times in the late 60s.

Chris,
Many of my friends went to Rose Lane School, then Quarry Bank. I think you're a couple of years older than me so you won't have known them.

There is a Colomendy thread somewhere here. I was at Rose Lane 1961-1964 and Quarry Bank 1964-1968.

C

[az_gila]

There is a Colomendy thread somewhere here. I was at Rose Lane 1961-1964 and Quarry Bank 1964-1968.

C

...overlapped....

I left Quarry Bank in 1965 for Liverpool University.

[Ged]

There is a Colomendy thread somewhere here. I was at Rose Lane 1961-1964 and Quarry Bank 1964-1968.

C

Colomendy (with photos) is mentioned on these threads here.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sea...archid=1231574



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[AngelCake]

I should start a new thread but is anyone else confused with the rebranding of Liverpool? I was told that Canning street was in Dingle and earlier I was trying to figure out how far I live from Otterspool and Google told me the following- Otterspool, Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, UK.

[pablo42]

I should start a new thread but is anyone else confused with the rebranding of Liverpool? I was told that Canning street was in Dingle and earlier I was trying to figure out how far I live from Otterspool and Google told me the following- Otterspool, Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, UK.

There is an Otterspool in Ellesmere Port AC.

[AngelCake]

There is an Otterspool in Ellesmere Port AC.

I wonder if it's possible to report mistakes to Google? I hate to be pedantic but it's annoying that it's shown as being in Aigburth on the map but the text says different.

[pablo42]

I wonder if it's possible to report mistakes to Google? I hate to be pedantic but it's annoying that it's shown as being in Aigburth on the map but the text says different.

Couldn't help you there AC.

[Waterways]

I should start a new thread but is anyone else confused with the rebranding of Liverpool? I was told that Canning street was in Dingle and earlier I was trying to figure out how far I live from Otterspool and Google told me the following- Otterspool, Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, UK.

To us Dingle was from High Park St down to the Dingle. People outside would say we lived in Dingle when in reality we lived in Harrington. Canning St is Granby.

[az_gila]

I wonder if it's possible to report mistakes to Google? I hate to be pedantic but it's annoying that it's shown as being in Aigburth on the map but the text says different.

Check the appropriate Google Map for the Copyright in the bottom right and go to the copyright owners web site and submit a correction on the online form.

My Google Maps (in the US) seems to give Tele Atlas as the copyright holder when I pull up the Liverpool area for my sister's house (L18).

If you see the same, then go here to submit a change request...

http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/index.php

I submitted one for a road in our Tucson area with Navteq (the other major data base) - and it did cause a change after 3 or 4 months. The changes will also refelect in updated data bases for your auto GPS systems since they seem to use the same geography data bases.

It's worth filling in the form...

[Ged]

The Everton sign outside Costco is laughable. It is actually Vauxhall but as a district that doesn't seem to exist. Canning might be a region to describe the Georgian Quarter but is that too recognised as a district?

[Waterways]

The Everton sign outside Costco is laughable. It is actually Vauxhall but as a district that doesn't seem to exist. Canning might be a region to describe the Georgian Quarter but is that too recognised as a district?

Vauxhall never really existed. It was some sort of notional district. I think it was a ward only in name. I never hear anyone say, "I am going to Vauxhall". Well if Vauxhall was a district we should have had an Exchange district then.

The boundaries of Toxteth are being changed as well. With the signs at Dingle Vale. Toxteth goes right up to Aigburth Vale, where the sign was. Most of Penny Lane was in Toxteth as well.