I started my long Sunday morning run on The Beatles Estate with roads named after each of The Fab Four. 64 John Lennon Drive has a sign in the front window that says “When I’m 64 John Lennon Drive”. Fab!
I passed one house with Mo Salah playing up front, with Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold defending the bedroom window. A bold formation, and a world-beating 3-a-side team!
It feels like everything in Liverpool has to be shortened. It took me a while to work out that ‘canny’ in The Cenny Youth and Community Hub was short for ‘central’. In front of the building there’s a tree planted in some laid bricks. Over the years one of the main roots has grown horizontally, separating two lines of bricks.
I ran round the Low Hill/Erskine Street/Brunswick Road junction. This forms a roundabout with an industrial estate in the middle. Turn left off Erskine Street onto Manfred Street, the left again onto Prospect Street and you’ll come across the rear of Prescot Street Police Bridewell and Fire Station. The fire station closed in 1921 and the police station in 1972. Since 1976 it’s been used by artists as The Bridewell Studios and Gallery. Many of the original features and signs can still be seen inside. https://www.liverpoolcitypolice.co.uk/photo-galleries/prescot-street-bridewell/
Churton Street must be one of the shortest streets in Liverpool. It runs down one side of the old bank building that stands at the junction of Brunswick Road and Everton Road. The letters T.A.S.S. are engraved above the front door. This is from the time it was the local HQ for the TASS union which, after a series of amalgamations, is now Amicus. I’m guessing ‘Midland Chambers’ above the side door was for a firm of solicitors.
There’s an old house waiting to be demolished on Winter Street. From a distance it looks like an old sandstone building, but on close inspection you can see that the sandstone is just cladding to disguise the bricks beneath.
I ran down Walker Street. #FRAUD
Brougham Terrace at the end of West Derby Road is the site of Britain’s first recorded mosque. It was founded in 1889 by Sheikh Abdullah William Henry Quilliam, a local solicitor and Methodist who converted to Islam after travelling through Morocco. Before the mosque was founded Quilliam held meetings in a rented room in Mount Vernon Street, but they were driven away by hostile locals who used to throw eggs and stones at them.
Brougham Terrace is also well known as the former site of Liverpool Register Office, where millions of births, marriages and deaths were registered.
The Grade II listed Bowden Drinking Fountain is really sad to see. There is no fountain, and no railings round the outside. The plaque has gone too. Such a shame.
I’ve now run down Every Street in Liverpool twice!
I saw a car number plate AO66 TTY and I could hear 8 year old me thinking it looked like it’s short for ‘ass, titty’ and giggling to myself!
Franklin Place is a short stub of a road with setts and the remnants of tram lines (or are they?). I didn’t expect to see that on my run today.
The grand building with a clock tower at the end of Boundary Lane used to be Ogden’s tobacco factory (makers of Golden Virginia, St Bruno, John Player and Embassy). Opened in 1901, at its height it employed over 2,500 people. That number had dropped to fewer than 200 when it closed in 2007.
Stats
- Sunday 16th May 2021
- 71 streets
Churton Street, Tulloch Street, Alexandra Close, Amethyst Close, Baker Street, Baker Way, Belmont Grove, Boaler Street, Boundary Lane, Butler Crescent, Cameo Close, Cardigan Way, Castor Street, Celebration Drive, Celt Street, Conwy Drive, Ellencliff Drive, Farnworth Street, Fielding Street, Fitzroy Way, Franklin Place, George Harrison Close, Georges Road, Gilmartin Grove, Gloucester Cout, Goldsmith Street, Gwent Close, Harper Street, Hutchinson Street, Hutchinson Walk, Jade Road, Jet Close, John Lennon Drive, Larch Lea, Lincoln Close, Low Wood Street, Manfred Street, Marsden Street, Marsden Way, Mayfair Close, Mission Walk, Molyneux Road, Montgomery Way, Nevin Street, New Grey Rock Close, New Red Rock Close, Norwood Grove, Olympia Street, Opal Close, Paul McCartney Way, Pearl Way, Pera Close, Phythian Close, Phythian Street, Prospect Street, Raven Close, Red Rock Street, Ringo Starr Drive, Rocastle Close, Romilly Street, St Albans, Schomberg Street, Trafalgar Way, Tudor Street North, Tudor Street South, Upper Baker Street, Walker Street, Whitefield Road, White Rock Street, Wightman Street, Winter Street - Total: 3,769 (66.5%)
- Remaining: 1,899
Photos on Facebook
All of the photos from this run are in a publically viewable Facebook album.
More photos from this morning’s run. pic.twitter.com/9bgstj2nr0
— Graham runs… 小光頭 🏴 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 (@itsafrogslife) May 16, 2021
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