Garston News Views and Discussion

[taffy]

Taffy, excavation work starts next week on the mill site.

Kev, if you want to see a map of Garston showing the old mill and mill pond in the 1850s go to

http://www.old-maps.co.uk

and type in Garston in the search box. Select the Lancashire one and then select the enlarged map. All will be revealed.

[Kev]

thanks

[ChrisGeorge]

Found these on my computer. Garston Old Mill and surrounding streets awaiting demolition, Sept 2006. Railway Street and surrounding houses were built on the infilled lower mill pond for Garston Mill.

Thanks, Taffy. I was in the old mill premises in the early Sixties as I wanted to see where the well was that had the datestone "1292." I believe I was shown the top of the well but could not see the date. Local historian Stanley Harris was of the opinion that 1292 was too early a date for any year to be expressed in Arabic numbers and that such dates only started to be expressed that way in the 1500's. The "1292" inscription though or just the knowledge that the mill dated back to Adam de Gerstan and the monastic lines is probably the inspiration for the title of the Garston and District Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill entitled " The 800 years of Garston Mill", published Feb 2004 that you mentioned you have. I would very much like to get a copy of that book.

Chris

[taffy]

Thanks, Taffy. I was in the old mill premises in the early Sixties as I wanted to see where the well was that had the datestone "1292." I believe I was shown the top of the well but could not see the date. Local historian Stanley Harris was of the opinion that 1292 was too early a date for any year to be expressed in Arabic numbers and that such dates only started to be expressed that way in the 1500's. The "1292" inscription though or just the knowledge that the mill dated back to Adam de Gerstan and the monastic lines is probably the inspiration for the title of the Garston and District Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill entitled " The 800 years of Garston Mill", published Feb 2004 that you mentioned you have. I would very much like to get a copy of that book.

Chris

I think the date will have been a later addition !!! In anycase the Garston mill seems to predate 1292. The Garston Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill is quite short, 13 A4 pages and costs £2.50. I suspect your getting the money in sterling to the society and their posting the monograph back will substantially increase the costs, probably 10 fold. If you are still interested, let me know in a private message and I'll speak to the society's secretary about it.

[ChrisGeorge]

I think the date will have been a later addition !!! In anycase the Garston mill seems to predate 1292. The Garston Historical Society's monograph on Garston Mill is quite short, 13 A4 pages and costs £2.50. I suspect your getting the money in sterling to the society and their posting the monograph back will substantially increase the costs, probably 10 fold. If you are still interested, let me know in a private message and I'll speak to the society's secretary about it.

Hi Taffy

I will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for about a week beginning the evening of Tuesday, May 15, so the monograph could be sent there. Let me know what I need to do to get the £2.50 plus local postage to the society. I'll be in town for the Maybrick event at the Liverpool Cricket Club (May 19-20) and also for a couple of poetry readings. Hope to meet a number of you while I am in the city.

Chris

[BillS]

Did the Garston Historical Society once have a web site? I seem to remember coming across it a few years back while surfing the net.

[taffy]

Intersting article by Mike Royden on the Garston area with info on Garston Mill

http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/...tic/mondoc.htm

[Ged]

Found this. Sorry if it's been posted up before but I remember seeing a single message about the Garston Riots somewhere on here so hope this helps the OP.

http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issu...ston_riots.php

[Kev]

FOOTBALL legend John Aldridge joined civic leaders to celebrate the first bricks being laid in a brand-new Liverpool community.

The former Reds striker and Tranmere manager met Lord Mayor Joan Lang to launch building work at Garston Under-The-Bridge.

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[taffy]

FOOTBALL legend John Aldridge joined civic leaders to celebrate the first bricks being laid in a brand-new Liverpool community.

The former Reds striker and Tranmere manager met Lord Mayor Joan Lang to launch building work at Garston Under-The-Bridge.

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Hasn't this building work been going on for months

[Kev]

Yep

[Kev]

A MAJOR road improvement scheme will ensure thousands more travellers can reach Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, it emerged last night.

The scheme will give the city its first dedicated bus link between the new Liverpool South Parkway train hub in Garston and the airport in Speke.

The main road from the airport to Speke Boulevard, as well as the route out of Parkway, will be given two-way bus lanes as part of the plan.

More than 5,000 passengers a day are now using Parkway.

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[Kev]

Work on the excavation site looks to be progressing. Havn't taken any pics or been given any info yet.

[Kev]

RE: Garston Mill Site Excavation

I had a visit to the site yesterday and took a few pictures, they are due to complete their initial digs next week and move off. The man on-site explained what they are doing are like 'key hole' digs to see what there below the surface. Depending what they have found will indicate if the site needs a full excavation, which it probably will later on this year I was informed.

There have been sections of cobbled streets uncovered, what looks like a very old sandstone wall below the surface, loads of Victorian features and much debris that lays below the surface that are Victorian. What's interesting is what is below all of this. Trenches have been dug at points on the site and the old mill lake wall has been found. The man on-site explained that he has seen many mill lake sites but nothing as potentially as big as this one.

What has been interesting to discover is the further they have dug down, the more layers they have uncovered. It was unfortunate that the larger trench had been back filled as I arrived for safety reasons.

There is a larger feature that is visible that I thought was the cellar from the pub that once stood near but it could be the place where the original mill wheel was situated.

I will post a pic or two once I've got clearance.

[taffy]

Anyone know the history of this curious ceramic cherub stuck to the wall of Portus and Rhodes in St Mary's Rd, Garston? You can just see the cherub in the Portus and Rhodes picture in the bottom left hand side of the photo