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#everysinglestreet [20/03/21] Norris Green: Part 5 – Lorenzo Drive and Norris Green Park

Graham Holland   

My first run after my first Covid-19 jab. Feeling OK.

Another chunk of Norris Green. I’d have done even more this morning but I’d decided to run without my running jacket this morning and it started raining. 

St Christopher’s Church, the Children’s Church, is on the roundabout junction where Lorenzo Drive and Broad Lane cross each other. St Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, and there’s a sailing ship high on the side of the church hall. This traditional red-bricked church building stands in contrast with New Life Revival Church a little further down Lorenzo Drive that’s based in an industrial unit next to Kosy Beds. 

There are daffodils along the central reservation on Utting Avenue East. Seeing them in full bloom on the spring equinox really raises the spirits. 

Lewisham Road is wider than the rest of the streets on this estate. There are traffic islands down the length, restricting traffic flow to one lane in each direction. 

I did the other part of this new estate – Norris Green Village – only two weeks ago. On this run I continued collecting roads named after plants – elderflower, hollyhock, wintergreen, burdock, canella, camphor, brooklime, pennycress and angelica. Who wouldn’t want to live on Snapdragon Way or Vanilla Close?

Norris Green Park is another of Liverpool’s parks I never knew existed. I don’t think I’ve ever been along Lorenzo Drive before. The park contains the ruins a grand mansion built by the Norris family (links to Speke Hall). They called the house Norris Green, after which the 1920s housing estate was named. The land for the estate was donated to the city by Lord Derby (of Knowsley Hall) on condition that no houses were built on the land where Norris Green house stood.

Norris Green mansion was demolished in 1931 with only one wall remaining. This sandstone wall, part of the stable block, is one of the few remaining examples of classical architecture and has Grade II listed status. 

Stats

  • Saturday 20th March 2021
  • 19 streets
    Angelica Drive, Broad Place, Broad View, Brooklime Road, Burdock Road, Bryony Road, Camphor Way, Canella Avenue, Elderflower Drive, Hollyhock Drive, Lewisham Road, Lorenzo Drive, Pennycress Drive, Porchester Road, Scarsdale Road, Snapdragon Way, Vanilla Close, Wandsworth Road, Wintergreen Avenue.
  • Total: 2,958 (52.21%)
  • Remaining: 2,708

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