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#everysinglestreet [12/12/20] Stockbridge Village with the ghost of Cantril Farm

Graham Holland  

Stats

  • Saturday 12th December 2020
  • 23 streets – Cadet Way, Avington Close, Aspes Road, Baron’s Hey, Baycliff Road, Colden Close, Corner Brook, Dumbrees Road, Feltwood Road, Hare Croft, Haswell Drive, Feltwood Walk, Leamoore Close, Marled Hey, Nevitte Close, North Cantril Avenue, Planetree Road, Playfield Road, Round Hey, South Cantril Avenue, Steets Croft, St Lukes Close, Waterpark Drive.
  • Total: 2,163 (38.47%)
  • Remaining: 3,460

Notes

Most of Stockbridge Village is across the Liverpool City Council border in Knowsley. The estate was build in the mid-1960s to house people from Liverpool displaced by the programme of slum clearance. Created with good intentions, Cantril Farm quickly declined into a ‘sink estate’. By 1982 49% of men and 80% of young people were unemployed, with burglary, violent crime, car theft, arson, and abandoned properties (retail and residential) being rife.

In 1983 the 2/3 of the estate in Knowsley was sold to Stockbridge Village Trust Limited and the area was renamed Stockbridge Village. The area in Liverpool was kept by the council and the Cantril Farm name was retained. Four of the nine tower blocks in the estate were demolished along with 600 maisonettes and 340 low-rise flats.

Fun(?) facts

  • Cantril Farm picked up the nickname Cannibal Farm
  • Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) grew up here
  • Indie band Space wrote their song Neighbourhood about growing up here

I took a photo of a parade of shops. For those not from the UK a parade is a group of 5 to 40 shops in a row, with small units and a mainly local customer base. These rows often have accommodation above (see my photos from Speke).

Opposite the parade of shops on Baycliff Road there’s a green, open space. On the edge someone has planted and decorated a single Christmas tree.

In this area there are lots of these residential, pedestrian streets with no road outside.

There’s a Twitter account called @UrbanGoals that collects photos of goal posts painted onto walls. I’ll have to send them the one I saw at the end of Baron’s Hey.

One end of Mab Lane has two road signs, the original and the new one.

Lots of abandoned petrol stations have found a new lease of life as a drive-through hand car wash.

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