The Eldonian Village was built in the early 1980s on the site of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery on Vauxhall Road. This factory, and the nearby British American Tobacco plant on Commercial Road, closed in 1981 with the loss of 3,000 local jobs. There had already been a regeneration scheme in 1978 near Eldon Street and Eldon Place where the Portland Gardens Co-operative built 130 new homes alongside a sheltered accommodation scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first phase of the new village covered the area between the railway to the west, Vauxhall Road to the east, Chisenhale Street to the south, and the Stanley Dock branch of the Leeds and Liverpool canal to the north. The second phase of the project extended the village further north from the canal branch to Boundary Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a community centre and church, a centre for the housing association, shops, and a post office. Many of the roads are named after people who contributed to, and supported, the Eldonian Village project. Paul Orr was Lord Mayor of Liverpool at the time. David Sheppard was the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool and Derek Warlock was the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can read more about the Eldonian Village in this slide presentation by Year 12 student RK at Archbishop Blanche School. <\/p>\n\n\n