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#everysinglestreet [14/12/20] Rudston Road and Rocky Lane

Graham Holland   

Stats

  • Monday 14th December 2020
  • 21 streets – Bampton Road, Belston Road, Burford Road, Dartington Road, Durston Road, Glenavon Road, Glendevon Road, Glenlyon Road, Lynscott Place, Molton Road, Okehampton Road, Orton Road, Padstow Road, Paignton Road, Repton Road, Rocky Lane, Rudston Road, Shawn Road, Staniforth Place, Sulgrave Close, Welbourne Road.
  • Total: 2,184 (38.84%)
  • Remaining: 3,439

Notes

I didn’t manage to run on Sunday (it was raining…) so went for a short, early morning run this morning instead.

Although I’d already completed Score Lane (before I started #everysinglestreet) I decided to divert from my route to take some photos of Childwall Valley Methodist Church.

This was our family’s church. All three Holland sprogs were Christened here, two were married here, and I was a Cub Scout, Scout, and Cub Scout Leader here. At one point we moved churches to join St Mary’s in Halewood, before returning to Childwall Valley some time later.

The church survived at least two reviews of church buildings and staffing in Liverpool South Circuit before the decision was finally taken to close it.

In February this year the Council approved planning permission for a nursery and apartments to be built on the site. UPDATE The nursery plan has gone. It’s now just going to be flats.

I took a photo of Rudston Road Junior School. The majority of Cub Scouts in the 30th Picton were pupils here.

St David’s Childwall is at the end of Rocky Lane. Just along Queens Drive at the end of Score Lane is Christ The King Parish Centre. Given that Christ the King church is the other side of the main road, I don’t know what the church building is next to the parish centre.

There’s a relatively new road off Rocky Lane opposite CADWA’s car park. The developers thought “Let’s call it Bowring Chase! We can put a sign on the brick posts either side of the entrance with the words ‘Bowring Chase’ and put a stone ornament on top!” And then the Council came along and thought… “Nah. We’re going to call it Staniforth Place instead after Thomas Staniforth, an 18th century Major of Liverpool, merchant, and slave trader.”

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