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#everysinglestreet [22/05/21] All the roads off Melrose Road

Graham Holland    

I’m slowly working my way through the south end of Walton and the east side of Kirkdale. I’m sure if I got hold of a map of ward boundaries I’d be able to tell where one district ends and another begins. 

I reckon I could do a whole photo album of ‘Buildings that used to be pubs but aren’t pubs any more.’ Along the terraced streets of Walton and Kirkdale there seems to have been a pub on every corner. 

I wonder how many of the residents of Tolpuddle Way and Poplar Way know their houses are built on the site of Stanley Saw Mills and Timber Yard. 

I found a rare post box without a royal cypher. 

Someone still has Christmas lights on the outside of their house. I wonder if they’re lit up at night! 

Kirkdale Community Centre is a grand Victorian building in a north European late gothic style. It was originally build as the Gordon Working Lads Institute and is thought to be Britain’s oldest surviving purpose-built boys’ club. Above the doorway there’s engraved the message “Erected by Mr William Cliff merchant to the memory of his (______) son, William Frater Cliff”. It was build in 1886 and has the head of Queen Victoria, plus a Liver Bird and a crest with three lions. Although it was build in memory of Cliff’s 11 year old son, it was named after Major General Charles Gordon who was killed in battle at Khartoum in 1886.

On Stanley Road at the corner of Fountains Road there’s a long building with a tower at the end. I’d though at first glance that it had been build where a church used to stand, hence the tower. However, looking at the old maps online it appears to have been the site of a small hospital. 

I ran down a group of flower-named streets – crocus, snowdrop, pansy, daisy, primrose, briar, woodbine, harebell. 

I ran doon Doon Close. 

Stats

  • Saturday 22nd May 2021
  • 50 streets
    Alfonso Road, Avon Close, Briar Street, Brock Street, Brunswick Close, Cairo Street, Chancel Street, Chirkdale Street, Churnet Street, Collingwood Close, Crocus Street, Daisy Street, Delamore Street, Down Close, Fonthill Close, Fonthill Road, Garnett Avenue, Goodall Street, Harebell Street, Harlech Street, Humber Close, Langtry Close, Langtry Road, Leighton Street, Mayfields, Melrose Road, Newman Street, North Dingle, Orwell Road, Owen Road, Pansy Street, Poplar Way, Primrose Street, Rickman Street, Roxburgh Street, Rumney Road, Rumney Road West, Ruskin Street, Sessions Road, Smeaton Street, Snowdrop Street, St Agnes Road, Stanley Close, Suffield Road, Tolpuddle Way, Tyne Close, Westminster Close, Whitefield Avenue, Woodbine Street, Wulstan Street
  • Total: 3,845 (67.84%)
  • Remaining: 1,823

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