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#everysinglestreet [31/10/20] All the roads off Bowring Park Road

Graham Holland    

Stats

  • Saturday 31st October 2020
  • 23 streets – Bowring Park Road, Ericsson Drive, Glenconner Road, Gleneagles Road, Hackworth Close, Illchester Road, Inchcape Road, Jubilee Avenue, Lingfield Grove, Lingfield Road, Merthyr Grove, Molesworth Grove, Molineux Avenue, Norville Road, Old Thomas Lane, Orchard Avenue, Renville Road, Rockville Road, Seymour Road, Staplands Road, Thomas Drive, Victoria Avenue, Willingdon Road.
  • Total: 1,580 (28.1%)
  • Remaining: 4,043

Notes

Bowring Park Road runs from the Rocket junction, where it straddles the end of the M62, to Roby Road on the boundary with Knowsley by the Greystone Bridge which straddles the motorway and replaced an old, concrete bridge. It’s nice and bouncy…!

Thomas Lane starts at Bowring Park Road and heads underneath the motorway. Alongside it is our old friend the Liverpool Loop Line.

Today is Halloween and there were lots of carved pumpkins and other seasonal paraphernalia outside homes.

Sandwiched between Glenconner Road, Chelwood Avenue and the Loop Line is a King George V Field. There were originally 471 King George V Fields across the UK, created as public open spaces dedicated to the memory of (not surprisingly!) King George V. In 1936 after George’s death Sir Percy Vincent, the then Lord Mayor of London, formed a committee to determine how he should be commemorated. In addition to a statue in London they created the National Playing Fields Association (now called Fields In Trust) which part-funded the purchase and management of the fields. These fields are all protected by covenants which ensure that they can only ever be used by the public for the purpose for which they were intended. All of the fields have the same entrance plaques displaying two heraldic panels. You can read more about the fields here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George%27s_Fields

I’ve never stopped to think about it before, but I’m guessing the Rocket Junction gets its name from The Rocket pub. The junction of the M62, Edge Lane Drive and Queen’s Drive (Liverpool’s ring road) is dominated by the Rocket Flyover which takes Queens Drive over the junction. But just like the recently demolished Churchill Way Flyover in the city centre, the Rocket Flyover’s days are also numbered. Engineers have discovered physical weaknesses in the structure that (as was the case for Churchill Way) make it financially unviable to keep maintaining it. The junction beneath is is also operating at capacity during rush hour, so a radical plan has been hatched. The proposed £120m scheme would see the removal of the flyover, a new ‘hamburger’ junction with Queens Drive traffic going straight through the middle, and a new underpass that would take M62 traffic under the junction and out onto Edge Lane Drive. Be prepared for years of delays… https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/…/how-rocket-junction…

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