Hello
Realise this is an old post and there were originally several replies to it.
I live in Litherland Park in what has been the family home for nearly fifity years and can clarify some details
Yes there were originally gates. They were taken away during one of the World wars along with the metal railings that fronted many (possibly all) of the houses, many still have the low sandstone walls that the railings fitted into.
The two small bungalows at each gate were gate keepers cottages,occupied to let carraiges in.
Originally the houses didn't have numbers that were used for identification. There were plot numbers for each adjacent plot but the houses were identified by unique names . Later they became identified by a numbers, but unlike an ordinary street with odds on the left and evens on the right they run consecutive and correspond to the original plot numbers. No1 being on the left as you go through the gate opposite Wilsons lane,number two next door, three next to that and so on all the way around the outer edge to 46 I think at the other gate. The numbers then cross the road and go back around to the right side of the Wilsons lane gate. The numbering then goes back up to the road that crosses up in the middle (as these were built at a later date)
Itconfuses the hell out of delivery and taxi drivers !!
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As someone said the majority of houses were those of merchants and sea captains, several of the larger houses on the west side of the park and up on top of Hatton hill had flat rooves at the rear giving a fantastic view over Liverpool bay, and presumably used to get a view of ships arriving in the bay and signalling systems on the tip of the wirral.
The slave rings in the walls were a myth
The land was originally farm land belong ing to several farms, some belonging to the Lords Sefton estate,who agreed to sell to a group, a lot of them his friends, set up for the purpose of raising something along the lines of an housing association! Creating 77lots for the building of the houses. This was started around 1850s .The deed of covenant for ours i 1854 and was built during the early 1860s.
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