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#everysinglestreet [28/08/20] All the roads east off Lark Lane

Graham Holland  

Stats

  • Friday 28th August 2020
  • 27 streets – Alexandra Park, Bickerton Street, Brentwood Avenue, Eastfield Drive, Elsmere Avenue, Galbraith Close (private), Hadassah Grove, Hargreaves Road, Hesketh Street, Langham Avenue, Lark Lane, Leda Grove (not on map), Livingston Avenue, Livingston Drive, Livingston Drive North, Livingston Drive South, Lucerne Street, Lucknow Street, Newland Court, Normanton Avenue, Pelham Grove, Roxburgh Avenue, Sandringham Drive, Sefton Grove, Siddeley Street, Ullet Road, Wendover Avenue.
  • Total: 823 (14.59%)
  • Remaining: 4,818

Notes

Lark Lane is a Bohemian street on the western edge of Sefton Park. I’ve been down it many times before for its bars and restaurants, but have never ventured down the side streets before. I was surprised and delighted by what I found! Milo Lounge, the Old Police Station (1885) now a community hub with a community garden, Keiths Wine Bar, The Albert, Marantos, Lark Lane Gelato (motto: “Ice Cream is our religion”), The Lodge… and many more.

Livingston Avenue with its double dog leg and grand houses.

Hadassah Grove is unpaved. The house at the bottom has a plaque commemorating John Wilson Williams (1809-1864) who created the road after buying what was previously farmland and named it after his wife. How sweet!

Leda Grove is a pedestrian street that’s not on any maps. I hope the Post Office knows where they are!

18 Lucerne Street used to be a garage (car mechanics). You can tell because it’s still got the sign saying GARAGE. This road is like a forest, with the majority of houses having plants and trees at the front. It was here I came across a stunningly beautiful green-eyed tabby cat.

The Hesketh Street Cooerative won an award from The Royal Town Planning Institute for its Newland Court project. The plaques (why have one when you can have three?) were unveiled by HRH The Prince of Wales.

At the end of Elsemere Avenue there’s an old church converted into apartments. Behind it on Langham Avenue is a distinctive, detached house that I’d put money on it having been where the vicar lived.

There’s only one house left in Wendover Avenue with the original door and stained glass windows.

Eastfield Drive has terraces of black wood beamed houses. The ancient Morris Minor at the end was a nice touch!

Sefton Park Library is a magnificent mock Tudor style building with a wrought iron structure above the gate with a lantern at the top with the words ‘LENDING LIBRARY’ on it.

I completed Ullet Road, or Mullet Road as someone renamed it. Rankin Hall is amazing. Ullet Grange is amazing. So many incredible buildings around Sefton Park.

I parked my car by the obelisk on the edge of Sefton Park. It was paid for by public subscription (i.e. donations) to commemorate Samuel Smith (1836-1906), former MP for Liverpool, philanthropist and social reformer. The inscription below the two water fountains (no longer functioning) on either side says “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” (based on John 4, 13-14)

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