{"id":2249,"date":"2021-09-08T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2023-04-09T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:55:07","slug":"everysinglestreet-08-09-22-meadow-lane-west-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/2021\/09\/08\/everysinglestreet-08-09-22-meadow-lane-west-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"#everysinglestreet [08\/09\/22] Meadow Lane, West Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was my first early morning run for a long time. I was testing out my sore knee ahead of the Great North Run on Sunday and so far (toes crossed) things look OK. I\u2019m still waiting for go ahead from my physio. Once I have that I\u2019ll walk Jesmond Dene parkrun on Saturday and make a decision about the GNR later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning the temperature was 16 degrees when I started and 20 degrees by the time I\u2019d returned to the car. It was a bright, sunny morning that seemed more like summer than early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fallbrook Drive and Grove Park Avenue are built on the former City of Liverpool Community College site. There is a lovely field either side of the entrance to Fallbrook. If this estate had been built today there\u2019s no doubt the whole of this would have been filled with houses. At the end of one close there were two open containers with water for what? Dogs? Birds? Foxes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know how the people who name new streets get their ideas from but The Boulevard isn\u2019t a boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entrance to Old Lodge Close was built to make it look like you\u2019re entering a private estate, with metal gates attached to the gate posts either side of the road. However, on closer inspection it becomes obvious that they\u2019re just for show because they\u2019re actually fixed into the pavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m always intrigued by roads that stop suddenly like the end of Lingmell Road. It\u2019s obvious that the kerb used to continue further before the fence was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lingmell Inn on the corner of Lingmell Road and Muirhead Avenue East faces the Norris Green estate. This is one of the pubs that the residents of Norris Green would have had to have walked to if they wanted a drink because there weren\u2019t any pubs in Norris Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and I\u2019ve now run 75% of the City of Liverpool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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