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#everysinglestreet [30/08/20] Oglet, Liverpool’s most southerly point

Graham Holland    

Stats

  • Sunday 30th August 2020
  • 14 streets – Dunlop Road, Hale Drive, Hale Road, Hindley Walk, Oglet Lane, Owen Drive, RVP Road, Southern Road, Viscount Drive (plus Yeadon Walk, Buckley Walk, Bramley Walk, Carley Walk, Rudley Walk – not on map)
  • Total: 830 (14.71%)
  • Remaining: 4,811

Notes

I decided because it was such a nice afternoon that I’d run out to Oglet, the most southerly point in Liverpool. Access used to be down Dungeon Lane but that’s now permanently closed since the airport extended the end of the runway.

Access by car is via Bailey’s Lane in Hale, and by foot along a new bridleway. I came across an article about the road closure in the Liverpool Echo with the headline “Memories ‘shattered’ as road to historic Speke beach loved by Paul McCartney closed permanently”. There was lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about what turns out to be a simple diversion. According to one person “Thousands of memories shattered” because of… er… a road closure. Read it for yourself. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/…/memories-shattered…

Oglet Lane is so close to Speke but seems a world away. It’s a country lane that would have originally gone all the way through to Garston, but now ends at the perimeter of the airport by the air traffic control tower. There are paths that take you down to ‘Oggie Shore’ if you want to get close to the river. The remnants of an old salt works can still be seen at what used to be the end of Dungeon Lane. On Oglet Lane there are nice views across the Mersey estuary, with fields of carrots and wheat next to the road.

I stopped on Hale Road to take a photo of a ghost pub sign, and noticed the road sign next to it was pitted with small, circular dents where it’s been used as an air rifle target.

I ran along what’s left of Dungeon Lane. The name Dungeon is most likely derived from the Old English Dunge or Denge, meaning land of, or next to, the marsh.

I ran down RVP Road, one of the back entrances to Liverpool John Lennon Airport. The Covid-19 drive-in test centre is at the end. There is a sign saying ‘No Stopping’ which I hoped was just for cars… I ran past the sign saying ‘Permit Holders Only Beyond This Point’ and got told off by a security guard.

I wasn’t too tired to run down Dunlop Road.

I ran down to the airport and took a photo of the Yellow Submarine that used to be at the International Garden Festival site. There was a billboard advertising the film Mulan exclusively on Disney+. This film should have been one of the big summer cinema blockbusters but Covid-19 scuppered that plan.

Hale Road cottages are to be restored as part of the Imagine Place new housing development. I’m going to wait until all of the roads have been built before I return to run them.

I was surprised to find George V and George VI letter boxes, showing how old the settlement actually is. There were quite a few pedestrian streets with the houses facing each other across a footpath. Some of these weren’t on OpenStreetMaps so I’ve added them manually.

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