{"id":2122,"date":"2021-07-17T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2023-04-07T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:17:05","slug":"everysinglestreet-17-07-21-summer-seat-and-the-last-of-the-roads-off-burlington-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/2021\/07\/17\/everysinglestreet-17-07-21-summer-seat-and-the-last-of-the-roads-off-burlington-street\/","title":{"rendered":"#everysinglestreet [17\/07\/21] Summer Seat and the last of the roads off Burlington Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summer Seat and Bevington Street were built in 1911 as high quality council houses as part of the slum clearance programme. They remain some of the oldest two storey council houses in the city. On Summer Seat I got talking to Marion and John Scott who have lived there for 38 years. Marion is 66 and grew up in this area. She went to the school that used to be at the end of the street where the wasteland is now. Her mother lived in one of the neighbouring streets before it was knocked down. She remembers the roads behind Summer Seat – Gildart\u2019s Gardens and Ford Street – that were knocked down to make way for the Kingsway (Wallasey) Tunnel. There\u2019s a Liverpool Echo feature on Summer Seat here. liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/life-summer-seat-oldest-terraced-20695053<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an engraved plaque in the terrace on Bevington Street that\u2019s almost impossible to read. It tells how the housing was built following the Housing Of The Working Classes Act 1890. On the other side of Bevington Street is Eldon Grove. This is the last remaining original-style tenement building in Liverpool. It\u2019s Grade II listed and on the Buildings At Risk register. There were plans in 2015 to turn it into 45 affordable one and two bedroom apartments, but by the look of the site at the moment I\u2019m guessing those plans never came to fruition. There are photos from 2015 in this Liverpool Echo feature on the proposals. liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/nostalgia\/take-last-look-grade-ii-9512960<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevington Bush has been boarded up since I was last there. There\u2019s a new development on the way which, I\u2019m assuming, will see the end of Wellington Street, Aldersey Street, and Nicholas Street. From here I ran along Scotland Road away from the city centre. There\u2019s no footway here so I ran along the central reservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotland Road was once a thriving Liverpool community before the bulldozers came in a knocked the sub-standard housing down. Some buildings still remain, such as the Derby Cinema at the junction with Wilbraham Road. This was actually built as a United Methodist Free Church before being converted into a cinema in 1922. The cinema closed in 1960 and since then it\u2019s been a funeral directors and firework shop. It\u2019s now accommodation called The Picturehouse Apartments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Silvester\u2019s Church on Silvester Street is now also apartments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The League of Welldoers\u2019 Lee Jones Centre on Limekiln Lane is a typical 1930s building with a statue above the door, as was typical of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an Edward VII red pillar box on Burlington Street. He was king from 1901 to 1910. I love how it has survived when all of the houses that would have surrounded it at the time have long since gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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