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#everysinglestreet [05/05/22] The last of the roads off Grafton Street with ponies!

Graham Holland    

I’ve been saving this run for one of my days off work. When I ran the roads off Sefton Street on 6th December it was a Sunday and some of the roads in the business park were closed. But I knew they’d be open today so decided to combine it with my run of the roads off Grafton Street. 

Grafton Street used to be one road from the top of the Dockers’ Steps (at the end of the Bread streets) all the way to Parliament Street. Bit by bit sections of the road have disappeared to be replaced by footpaths. The same thing has happened to Caryl Street. 

From Grafton Grove you can see the backs of the houses up the hill on Grafton Street. What is the ground floor at the front of the houses is actually almost two storeys higher at the rear, with steps required to get down to the alley.

I can’t find anything on Google about R Caw & Sons, the faded sign at the top of the 1912 building on Stanhope Street. A little further up the road, hidden behind a fence and wall, is a railway cutting for the Merseyrail line from Brunswick to Central Station. This is the site of Liverpool St James Station (not be be confused with Liverpool James St Station!). It opened in 1874 and closed in 1917 due to wartime cost saving measures. It never reopened and was eventually demolished. Due to the rejuvenation of the Baltic Triangle area a new station here is top of the Merseytravel wish list. 

St Patrick’s Chapel is a Grade II listed building in a Neoclassical style, founded in 1821 and opened six years later. The statue was donated in 1827 by the St Patrick Insurance Company of Dublin. Opposite the church on the other side of the street is St Patrick’s Memorial School and Hall, built in 1927 on the church’s centenary. There’s a feature on its rise and fall here. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/once-thriving-heart-community-left-17865478

Toxteth Tabernacle – The Tab – is a Baptist church, opened in 1871 by William P Lockhart. He had been preaching in Newington and Hope Street in the 1860s, before renting the Ebenezer Chapel in Beaufort Street from the Welsh Calvanists. His Sunday evening service was attracting up to 1,000 worshipers and it was obvious they needed their own place, hence The Tab. The three surrounding roads are named after Dicken’s characters, and Lockhart objected to the new Pickwick Street being next to the chapel so the name was switched with Dorit Street. 

Down the side of The Globe pub on Combermere Street there are two plaques dedicated to trade union leader Jim Larkin (1876 – 1947).

One of the most striking buildings on Park Road is Coleman’s Fireproof Depository, established in 1875. What takes you by surprise is that it still has the original signage visible on the outside. Quite aptly the building survived being set on fire during the riots in 1981. 

Park Palace Ponies can be found inside a former cinema and variety hall on Mill Street. Round the back there are stables and a small area for the horses to enjoy. Back in time horses were a common sight on the streets of the city. Today they come as a surprise. 

It’s comforting to know that there’s still a mill on Mill Street. Alongside the mill are two terraced streets – the appropriately named Corn Street, and Yates Street. The Liverpool Echo described them as being ‘frozen in time’ and it’s easy to see why, given how the rest of the terraced streets have long since gone. There’s also a mystery here as to why some of the houses on Corn Street, and all of them on Yates Street are built on raised masonry with residents and visitors having to climb steps to reach the footpath outside the front doors. The houses on Yates Street were named Oldfield Mount, no doubt in reference to the height above street level. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mystery-terrace-houses-suburban-street-20362204

Stats

  • Wednesday 5th May 2021
  • 61 streets
    Ashwell Street, Atterbury Street, Beaufort Street, Bedstone Close, Bewey Close, Caryl Grove, Caryl Street, Chapman Close, Chesney Close, Combermere Street, Cooperage Close, Corn Street, Darnley Street, Doddridge Road, Erin Close, Fernie Crescent, Gelling Street, Gore Street, Grafton Grove, Grafton Street, Harrington Road, Harrison Way, Hill Street, Horsfall Grove, Horsfall Street, Hughson Street, Hyslop Street, Lamport Street, Lindley Street, Laxey Street, Llanrwst Close, Longville Street, Millerstoll Way, Mill Street, Mornington Street, New Henderson Street, Park Street, Prince William Street, Prophet Walk, Rhyl Street, Riverpark Gardens, Robertson Street, Rutter Street, Saddlestone Grove, Shaftesbury Street, Southern Crescent, Southwell Place, Southwell Street, Steble Street, Summers Road, Tamworth Street, Tillotson Close, Tower Street, Toxteth Street, Upper Essex Street, Upper Harrington Street, Upper Mann Street, Vere Street, Warwick Street, Wolfe Street, Yates Street
  • Total: 3,570 (63%)
  • Remaining: 2,098

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