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#everysinglestreet [06/08/20] From Penny Lane to Calderstones with Edward VIII

Graham Holland  

Stats

  • Thursday 6th August 2020
  • 26 streets – Broadacre Close, Calder Drive, Calderstones Avenue, Calderstones Road, Dudlow Court, Dudlow Drive, Dudlow Gardens, Dudlow Lane, Dudlow Nook Road, Friarsgate Close, Greenhill Avenue, Gwydrin Road, Hallville Road, Harthill Avenue, Mayville Road, Menlove Gardens North, Menlove Gardens South, Menlove Gardens West, Menlove Mansions, Montclair Drive, Potters Lane, Primrose Road, Rutherford Road, Silverbeech Avenue, Sinclair Drive, Birch House Close (not on map).
  • Total: 672 (11.91%)
  • Remaining: 4969

Notes

Edward VIII was only king for less than a year (20th January to 11th December 1936) before he abdicated and George VI (the current Queen’s father) became King. This means that postboxes with the Edward VIII insignia on them are really rather rare. I think there’s only one other in the whole of Liverpool. Collecting this letterbox means I now have the full set for #PostboxBingo – Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, and Elizabeth II.

The houses on Sinclair Drive and Montclair Drive back onto a large green space with a children’s play area and a tennis court. I have literally no idea how you can access this area other than via the back gardens.

At the end of Dudlow Nook Road there’s a nice cottage with the remains of a gate post next to it. It looks like it probably guarded the entrance to a large house, since demolished.

There was a very friendly cat on Dudlow Drive who was desperate for me to rub its tummy!

Potters Lane contains a collection of quaint cottages.

Birch House Close is missing from Open Street Maps.

I stopped outside Carleton House Preparatory School where my Dad used to go when he was much younger and before his family moved to the Wirral.

Menlove Avenue has one of those cottages stranded in the middle of a duel carriageway. There’s another of these that I know of in Woolton.

Anytime Fitness on Allerton Road used to be a cinema. The first cinema on this site was The Plaza, which became the Gaumont, then an Odeon before it was demolished in 1971. It was replaced by the current row of shops, with the cinema on the first floor. This opened in 1973 as the Classic Cinema, then became the Cannon in 1986, a Virgin Cinema in 1996, and ABC Cinema in the late 1990s, before returning to the Odeon chain in 2001. It closed on 26th February 2009. The last film to be shown was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt.

The Tesco Express and Costa on Allerton Road used to be Woolworths. Legend has it that the Woolworths sign on the front is visible in the light of a full moon. Or did I dream that?

Albert Villa’s on Prince Alfred Road has an original road sign with an apostrophe that shouldn’t be there. It’s comforting to know this isn’t a modern problem!

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