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#everysinglestreet [10/09/20] The last of the roads off Dunbabin Road

Graham Holland  

Stats

  • Thursday 10th September 2020
  • 22 streets – Banstead Grove, Childwall Abbey Road, Childwall Park Avenue, Childwall Priory Road, Corbridge Road, Crondall Grove, Daffodil Road, Dorking Grove, Dunbabin Road, Dublin Road, Eldred Road, Epping Grove, Green Lane North, Hattons Lane, Hilltop Road, Lance Grove, Mimosa Road, Moss Pitt Lane, Oulton Road, Terence Road, Towers Road, Tulip Road.
  • Total: 1,032 (18.28%)
  • Remaining: 4,610

Notes

This was my first early morning run for months, and I used it to complete the last of the ‘local’ roads off Lance Lane, and the rest of the roads off Dunbabin I hadn’t done.

A railway enthusiast lives in Tithebarn Grove.

Coco was missing in August. I hope she got found.

I passed my Doctors’ surgery, the Blue Coat School playing field, and St Stephen’s Church (where the 25th Picton meet).

I’ve noticed a lot of small, women-only fitness places popping up all over the place. There’s one here on Woolton Road, one on Wavertree High Street, and one at Taggart Avenue triangle.

Woolton Road has a dog grooming place called The Fab Fur!

A former Scout from back in my 30th Picton days was deputy manager at the Dutch Flower Shop. He sadly died in his early 20s – a real shock to us all.

I’d planned a really cool route running the four cul-de-sacs between Moss Pits Land and Dunbabin Road. I was going to use the footpath at the end to cross between them diagonally. That plan went south when I found my access blocked by alley gates…

One house on Woodsorrel Road has gone one step further than a simple loft conversion, and has built an extra floor!

King David High School is now a combined building for the primary and secondary. The site of the old primary school is now a small close with posh houses. You can tell they’re posh because they’ve got double garages!

The old British Telecom telephone exchange building now hosts Openreach vans in the car park.

The Childwall Hebrew Congregation Synagogue looks like it was built at the same time as the telephone exchange (and Childwall Valley Methodist Church), and it has the same feel.

Across the other side of Queens Drive on Dunbabin Road is the house where Don and Joan Heady used to live. Don founded the 3rd Childwall Wolf Cub Pack in the 1930s, and was a supporter of the Group which became the 33rd Wavertree then the 30th Picton. When I was in the Scouts his nickname was DC because he used to be the District Commissioner and the name stuck! Don used to keep a beehive on the flat roof at the back of the Methodist Church where the Group met, and really enjoyed introducing the youth members to the wonders of nature.

More Victorian street furniture on Woolton Road by the Half Way House – this time a water fountain (defunct) from 1856. The sandstone building behind is now a pumping station.

FOOTWAY CLOSED – Does anyone actually call it a footway?

I took photos at Taggart Avenue Triangle, including The Great Wall where I’m convinced I got food poisoning about 25 years ago.

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