Woolton, Liverpool 

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Woolton is in South-East Liverpool, the eastern border being also the border of the City of Liverpool for the most part. The photo below shows a view of the village from Woolton Woods, showing St. Peter's Church at the highest point in Liverpool, about 70 meters as far as I can remember (technically speaking, the highest point might be somewhere else in the near vicinity - according to a correspondent, the actual highest point could be the Reservoir Tower in Reservoir Road). It was in St Peters' Hall that John Lennon first met Paul McCartney but that is probably of more interest to outsiders than it is to inhabitants of the area!
Woolton Village

Above photo by kind permission of John Cumberland (Member of Woolton in Bloom Committee and Woolton Village Residents Association).

Woolton - History

An iron-age encampment appears to have been identified on Camp Hill, although most of the evidence appears to have been destroyed by later construction during the 19th. century.

Recorded in the Domesday Book as Uluentune. 'Tune' means 'farm' - the whole name indicates 'farm of Wulfa'.

The Knights Hospitallers held the area by 1189 until confiscated in 1559 during the dissolution of the monasteries, the land being transferred to the monarch for the next 70 years or so.

In the middle of the 17th. Century it was acquired by Isaac Greene, from whom it eventually passed to Bamber Gascoyne.

The 1851 census showed that 24% of the population were Irish. A noticeable concentration of poorer people were packed into the Quarry Street area, including Rose Street and Rodick Street.

It only became a part of Liverpool in 1913. The Eastern boundary is still today the boundary of Liverpool.

The names 'Much Woolton' and 'Little Woolton' crop up now and again. These names do still appear on maps of around 1900 - Much Woolton seems to correspond more or less to present-day Woolton while the former Little Woolton is the Gateacre area.

Victorian Age and its Wealth

About the whole area it has been said that this part of South Liverpool in Victorian times was the greatest example of conspicuous wealth in Britain, if not the world, which is a great accolade. And even now you can still get a feel of the reflection of that wealth that was generated in the city.” -BBC

The above quote tells of an aspect that I had never been aware of previously. But presumably it could be true, taking into account the number of buildings hidden behinh high walls, those that have disappeared, those that have been converted to other uses, etc. View BBC website.

Included in the relevant list of Victorian buildings are

Beaconsfield Road
Strawberry Fields   Now demolished. Home of shipowner, George Warren.
Abbots Lee School   Home of William Gottager, soap manufacturer in Widnes.
Beaconsfield   Built for Ambrose Lace, a solicitor, in 1833.
Stoneleigh   built as Fortfield House for Barton Wrigley in 1888/89
Knoll Park   built in the 1820s for Thomas Foster, Town Clerk of Liverpool. In 1978, this became St. Gabriel's Convent.
Woolton Hill Road
Bishop's House   home of Bishop of Liverpool. Formerly Baycliffe.
Church Road
Beechwood   built for James Rose
Rosemount   Built by James Rose for his mother.
Speke Road
Woolton Hall   Built iin the early 1700s.
Rose Brow
The Grange   built as the home of Andrew Barclay Walker, the brewer, whose name lives on in the Walker Art Gallery. The grounds originally backed on to the buildings on Grange Lane.

Woolton Quarry

The quarries produced sandstone, most famously for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. When work on the cathedral had finished, the quarry seemed to have closed almost at the same time. The more recent quarry was towards the top of Quarry Street, away from the village. The 'old quarry' is at the other end of Quarry Street adjacent to the village and became used for small industrial units. I remember a fire breaking out among a pile of old tires stored there (in the 60s or 70s), producing a plume of smoke giving the impression of a major disaster when viewed from a distance.

The quarry seems to date from the early 1800s, opened by James Rose.

Buildings made from Woolton stone include Woolton Hall, Stoneleigh, Beaconsfield and Gateacre Grange.

Quarry Street

George Tipping relates his memories of the burning down of various houses on Quarry Street, for fire practice:

        I'm not exactly sure when but I think it was about 1937/8. I remember them   setting light to the top floors and the fire worked its way down. The   chippy (owned by my grandmother) had two floors above street level and a 'semi' kind of cellar,   the front door at street level and the rear down a level. Before it was   a chippy it was the "Stag Inn" I remember all the shops along Quarry Street,   but not the property behind them.    By the way the tyre dump was previously the council tip, filling   in the Old Quarry. Afterwards they moved down Allerton way, near Clarkes Gardens.

Bamber Gascoyne

Bamber Gascoyne There were two 'lords of the manor' with this name, based at Childwall Hall. The original Bamber married, in 1756, Mary Greene, who had inherited Childwall Hall and land in Woolton and elsewhere. The Hall had been rebuilt and renamed by her father, Isaac.

The second Bamber was MP for Liverpool from 1780-1796, and a leading light in the campaign to oppose all attempts to abolish slavery.

A descendant of the family, Bamber Gascoigne, is well known in Britain as a TV presenter.

In 1881, Ralph Brocklebank, ship owner became a tenant of the Hall.

In 1947, the Hall was presented to the Council, but it had to be demolished because of dry rot. In 1955, a college was opened on the site.

Woolton Old School

Woolton Old School

Probably the oldest building in the area. The date 1610 is displayed but it is thought to be earlier. It stopped being used as a school in the 19th. Century. After being converted into a house in the 1980s it has been back in use for educational purposes since about 1990 as a nursery school.

Woolton Cinema

"Woolton Picture House" is apparently the oldest cinema in Liverpool (opened in 1927) according to some sources, while others try to claim it is the oldest cinema in the North West. I remember that it was originally a bit of a 'joke' being so small, but that small size has presumably allowed it to stay open while larger cinemas have shut down.

In a similar way, both the library and the swimming baths are both the smallest in Liverpool, which was a bit of a disappointment originally but I think they are both actually of typical size when compared on a national basis..

The cinema did shut on 3rd September 2006, but has now re-opened. Further details here.

Official website

Woolton Woods

The woods are almost "next door" to the village, with the contiguous Camp Hill at "the back" from where you have a view in the direction of Liverpool Airport.

Formerly there was a cuckoo clock in the woods, bearing the inscription

This floral clock was presented to the public by the family of the late James Bellhouse Gaskell, in memory of his long stay in Woolton Woods, 1927
After a period of decay, this clock appears to be back in working order (without the cuckoo call). Although I believe that it might currently be out of order again due to vandalism.

St. Peter's Church

St Peter's Church, Woolton St. Peters's occupies the hill overlooking the village, which is actually the highest point in Liverpool, about 50-60 meters above sea level. It was in the adjacent hall that John Lennon first met Paul McCartney.

Their web site can be reached here.

John Lennon and the Beatles

John Lennon's House John Lennon lived at 251 Menlove Avenue. I used to go past there every day on my way to school and back (to Quarry Bank, incidentally, John's old school), without having the slightest inkling that this was where he used to live !

The house was bought by Yoko Ono in 2002 and donated by her to the National Trust. They opened it to the public on Saturday 29 March 2003.

Arrangements in 2003 were as follows :- Tours run from March 29th to October 26th, 2003, Wednesdays - Sundays.

Tours depart at 10.30am and 11.20am from Albert Dock (0151 708 8574) and at 1.50pm and 3.55pm from Speke Hall (0151 427 7231).

These tour times may change, you are advised to telephone in advance to secure a seat. There is no direct access to these properties by car or foot.

Admission prices from 1 Mar 2003: Non-members: Adult £10, accompanied children free. Members (to cover minibus): £5. Price includes admission to garden and grounds of Speke Hall.

The Vanished World of a Woolton Childhood with John Lennon

Profile: Len Garry John Lennon's first bass player with news on the 1997 reunion of John's original Quarry Men

Beatles and Woolton

Well Met in Woolton

Program on Radio 4
What happened when two young rockers met at a church fete? Only the birth of the Beatles...

It's hard to believe that a serendipitous meeting at a local garden fete in suburban Woolton, on the outskirts of Liverpool, could engineer a social and cultural revolution-namely, the genesis of the Beatles. But in among the villagers with their prams, the yeomanry and the youth club, and the garlanded trucks carrying the newly crowned Rose Queen, 50 years ago at Woolton fete, on 6 July 1957, Ivan Vaughan introduced his two mates to each other: fellow 15-year-old Paul McCartney and 16-year-old John Lennon.

Lennon was a member of the Quarrymen, five boys from Quarry Bank School with a love of skiffle who'd got permission to play the fete so that the youth had their own entertainment. It was such a momentous meeting - the birth of what was to become the Beatles - that both Radios 4 and 2 are broadcasting separate documentaries, but while last week's When John Met Paul on Radio 2 concentrated on the music (plus a new interview with McCartney), Well Met in Woolton splices together the memories of those who attended the fete to create a simple, yet profound, nostalgic slice of life that the Beatles were about to change for good.

One of those voices reminiscing is Lennon's younger half-sister Julia Baird, who was ten at the time; another is McCartney himself, captured on tape in 1998 by Baird when she was researching her book John Lennon: My Brother. 'Paul talks through the whole setting up of the Beatles; he admits he was a bit frightened of John, who was the bigger one, with a quiff, while Paul was practically in boy-scout uniform!"

The initial meeting, after the Quarrymen had set up in the local church hall, was equal amounts recognition and suspicion of one another's talents. McCartney enjoyed Lennon, a prototype Teddy Boy, singing the Del-Vikings' Come Go with Me with improvised lyrics; Lennon, in turn, was astounded when left-hander McCartney picked up Lennon's guitar, turned it upside down and played proper guitar chords (instead of the Quarrymen's banjo tunings) and sang every word to Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock.

Two days later, Lennon invited McCartney to join the Quarrymen. "From everything I've read," says Baird, "John was jealous because Paul was so suave and good-looking, but John recognised that, for the good of the group, Paul was right for it. John even said Paul looked a bit like Elvis, which was a compliment from John. I can tell you! Paul was dead keen from the start. Years later, they diverged with their talents, but at that point they were just two rockers."

This year's Woolton fete is being held over three days, a sign of the popularity of festivals and the changing times, which have left the Beatles behind much as it has the Quarrymen. But the Quarrymen, with founder member Rod Davis fronting the band, are appearing again, in the same church hall where John met Paul. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," says Julia Baird, "if Paul turned up? He says he likes playing small clubs again; Paul the rocker! You never know."

Martin Aston

BBC Site for the 'Well in Woolton' site

The Quarrymen   site of the current Quarrymen group, including some further information on the above-mentioned event

Gateacre

Gateacre at the turn of the century

This image shows the Wilson Memorial Fountain on Gateacre Village Green at the beginning of the 20th century. John Hays Wilson, of Lee Hall, was Chairman of the Liverpool Water Committee and was involved in the plan to construct Lake Vyrnwy. He died in 1881, before the project began, and this memorial was erected by 'the people of Gateacre' on land presented by Andrew Barclay Walker. In the background can be seen Gateacre railway station (allegedly).

Gateacre Railway Station

Gateacre Station was situated on what was originally the Cheshire Lines Committee's North Liverpool Extension Line which connected its main Liverpool to Manchester line to the north Liverpool docks at Huskisson by skirting through rural land to the east of Liverpool - at the time Gateacre was a small rural village. The line opened between 1879 and 1880 An 1887 Junction diagram shows the station being referred to as Gateacre & Woolton

On 1st September 1884 a further extension of the route opened to Southport Lord Street although it this line ran into difficulties at an early stage. It failed its first inspection in December 1883 so did not open until 1884. Its indirect route and longer journey time meant that this line was not very successful. Low passenger numbers forced the Cheshire Lines Committee’s parent companies to save the line from bankruptcy (not being able to pay its debts) in 1888. The Cheshire Lines Committee’s service became even slower by comparison when the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway’s line switched to electric operation in 1904.

The line was always busy with goods trains accessing the docks. Passenger services from Gateacre went north to Aintree Central and Southport as well as to Huskisson (the line to Aintree/Southport and the line to Huskisson split at Walton Triangle), although this latter service was cut back to Walton on the Hill as early as 1885 and ceased altogether on 1st January 1918. To the South trains served destinations to Liverpool Central and to Manchester.

The first major service to be withdrawn was the Southport service on 7th January 1952, followed by the service for Aintree Central and Manchester on 7th November 1960. This left only the Gateacre to Liverpool Central service, which ended on 15th April.1972 supposedly as a temporary measure to facilitate the construction of the Merseyrail Loop and link lines in the City Centre. The intention was that Gateacre would reopen complete with electrification as part of this network and in the future passenger services would even reopen towards Aintree. The line from Livertpool Central did re-open as far as Garston in 1978 and to Hunts Cross in 1983 but since then nothing has happened (there is a suspicious connection with the election of Thatcher in 1979 and her attitude to public transport).

Goods traffic had steadily declined and in its later years became a single track branch running from Hunts Cross to Huskisson. The last goods trains ran in August 1975.

The line was lifted by a demolition train over a number of Sundays in early 1979.

Today the route is part of the National Cyclway Network Route 62 - The Trans Pennine Trail. Information on the Liverpool end can be downloaded here.

Route 62 of the National Cycle Network

Stations on the Main line

  • Hunts Cross which was the junction with CLC Liverpool to Manchester line. Hunts Cross is still open today, served by electric trains

  • Gateacre (1 December 1879-15 April 1972)

  • Childwall (1 December 1879-1 January 1931).

  • Knotty Ash (1 December 1879-7 November 1960)

  • West Derby (1 December 1879-7 November 1960).

  • Clubmoor (14 April 1927-7 November 1960).

  • Walton on the Hill (1 December 1879-1 January 1918)

  • Huskisson (13 July 1880-1 May 1886).

Stations on the North branch
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  • Warbreck (1 August 1929-7 November 1960).

  • Aintree Central (13 July 1880-7 November 1960).

Stations on the Southport extension

  • Aintree Central (also known as Aintree). (13 July 1880-7 November 1960).

  • Old Roan railway station. (1884)

  • Sefton and Maghull railway station, Maghull. (1884-1952).

  • Lydiate. (1884-1952).

  • Altcar and Hillhouse, (Altcar) (1884-1952).

  • Mossbridge (1884-1952).

  • Woodvale (1884-1952).

  • Ainsdale Beach (Ainsdale). (1884-1952).

  • Birkdale Palace (Birkdale). (1884-1952).

  • Southport Lord Street. (1884-1952).

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Links (all open in a separate window) and References

I Remember, I Remember by J.F.Marsh.  Taken from J.F.Marsh's book Parts 1 & 2 ‘The Story of a Woolton Pub' 1930 in which the author wrote in the preface:-
Breathe there the soul so dead
That never to themselves has said
This is my own, my native spot.  

Snippets

Garway and its surrounding area is a council housing estate that is now under a preservation order. I was uncertain when exactly it was built but George Tipping has put me right, as follows

Hi Brian,
             Regarding Garway, it was started pre-war - my grandmother had a chip shop in Quarry Street, about 60 yards up from the "Victoria" pub, from the surviving three cottages and Pit Place. All the property between there and Rodick St, taking in Pit St, and Mill View, where I was born, was burnt for fire practice, and most of the residents were moved to Garway, including my grandmother.

Brian if you include this on your site could you please include my email and phone No. as I would like to get in touch with Alan, regarding the "Black Horse", and there might be some old Wooltonians out there who know me.  

George Tipping - email
 0151-424-6156.            

Assistance Requested

I came across your web site on Woolton whilst looking for any site re Woolton CP Out Lane where my husband and I were both pupils from 1956 to 1963.

I noticed that you have had a few queries re family history. I have access to the Censuses from 1841 to 1901 and am more than willing to do look ups for anyone who wants information. Also, if anyone is interested there is a web site for St Peters church in which I have listed all the headstone inscriptions. This site is searchable alphabetically.  

If anyone wants any information from the Censuses, email me on A HREF="mailto:emelthompson@o2.co.uk">Margaret Thompson

I was wondering if you could help me please. I used to live in “The Priory” at the bottom of Watergate Lane in Woolton from birth to 3 years. I remember the tomb (Bullon Vault in St Mary’s Church) and graves being there, but I don’t really remember too much about how the Priory itself looked. I was wondering if you have any pictures or further information about it please? I lived there from 1973-1976 with my parents until we moved up to Speke Rd.

A HREF="mailto:ylakebled@aol.com?cc=bd25@tutor.open.ac.uk">Anne-Marie Young

I would like to post a request on your web page. I am looking for any helpful information about families from the Woolton area. In particular Longworth, I doubt very much they were the 'Lords of the Manor' but probably painfully poor working class. My starting point is Jane Frances Longworth, baptised 1832 at St. Mary's. I believe that is a Catholic Church? Her marriage certificate might say her father was James, a Coachman (1868, Edge Hill). It is quite hard to read.

On another subject, I read somewhere that Paul McCartney met John Lennon at Woodhead in Cheshire? Maybe that is just one of those stories where people want a claim to fame? I still haven't found a significant 'famous' person yet to claim as my own. Not even a convict.   

Many thanks, Marie Palmer, Australia

I am trying to locate some pencil sketches of St. Mary’s Church Woolton for my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary next month. They were married there in 1958, I was christened there in 1960.

If you could point me in the direction of links to any artists who may have any i would be most grateful.

e-mail

I am actually trying to find information out about Woolton Grange Residential Home ... and its past history as a church, I was wondering if you had any information or where one may be able to find some.  

Many Thanks

James Andrews-Jones

Hello,  

I am looking for any old pictures of Woolton Skateboard park on Quarry Street.   And I'm still looking for a picture of Lower Lee House on Beaconsfield Road, Woolton  

Please email Dave here    

Many thanks. Dave

Hi Brian,

Would you know when the original owner of Strawberry Fields, George Warren died??

many thanks,

sali

Hello Brian  

  Do you know if there is a Woolton Local History Group that I might contact for help?  

I have been following a thread on Rootschat.com a summary of which is here.  

Basically a man in France, Michel found a tag with a soldiers name on it; Robert W Stead  After trying for many years to find it's owner, he posted on RootsChat for help.  The owner sadly died and we have been unable to trace any living relatives but eventually traced his grave to St Peter's Church Woolton.  

The stone is sadly broken and face down and no one has the funds to get it righted.  Michel is planning to come and visit the grave and also hopefully find a good home for the medallion.  

I'm hoping there is a local history group that will have ideas about how to turn the stone over at a minimum of cost or who might help us voluntarily so if you have any contacts, please let me know.  I live in Speke myself and would love to see the medallion returned as close to it's rightful owner as possible.  It would be nice if St Peter's could be persuaded to put it on show somewhere as part of their history.  

Anyway, if you can help at all, I'd be very grateful, along with hundreds of others who have worked on this project from all over the world!  

Thanks,Lynne Moneypenny

Dear Brian,  

I have no clue if you can be of help to me or not.  I have just begun to do some research on my grandparents.  I have so little to go on, but I do have a Baptismal Certificate from St. Mary's Church, Woolton, Liverpool with information dating back to 1872.  I googled that church and it looks like it is still there.  Then I found your website and loved reading about Woolton.  Can you suggest to me where I would start...I would love to know where she was raised, etc.  Would the church have those records?  I did find in the church's archives  the marriage registrar  with her parents' marriage date.  This is all so interesting but I have so little to go on.  If you can be of help, that would be awesome;  if not, thanks for taking time to read this and for providing me with information of where my grandmother was raised.  I would love to visit sometime.   

Sincerely,  

Mary Jansen
New Fairfield, Connecticut

My name is John Reppion and I’m currently researching a book about Liverpool’s ghosts and hauntings.

  I was wondering if you might know of Cavaliers or Royalists based in or around Woolton during the English civil war of 1642 and 1651 (or generally around that period).

  Also, if you do know of any supernatural stories related to the village (or any other Liverpool location) I would be very interested to hear them

John Reppion

I am looking for any photos/pictures of Lower Lee (Lea) house, which was in Beaconsfield Road, now replaced by Lower Lee school.  

Can anyone help me ? If so please email

My name is Ben Holroyd, my partner and I are currently in the process of buying a house in Woolton, and wondered whether you could shed any light on it's history, it's number 36 rodick street. we understand from the current owner that it was built around 1768 and was the old quarrymans cottage...

just wondered if you knew of anything...

Ben Holdroyd

Hi Brian  

I came across your site about Woolton whilst looking for information.  I was born in Woolton in December 1955 and my mother told me that when I was about 12 months old my mother, older sister and myself spent some time in a hostel for homeless people in Woolton, which I believe may have been the Aymestry hostel building, before it became a children's home.  I wonder if you know whether I am right about the location of the hostel, or even whether such a place existed?

Lynda Barlow

I am just wondering if you can shed any light on a family connection I have with Woolton. My granny’s aunt was called Lucy Hamilton-McGuffey (sorry not sure of spelling) married her boss James and lived in Woolton Hall. I know she ended up building a house in the grounds. She had loads of dogs that slept on her bed and drank in the local pubs, whiskey galore!!! Died in the 1980s and my granny inherited a wee bit. I am hoping to find out more about the family. Any tips much appreciated.

Wendy Kiernan

Woolton British Legion

Hi, can you help me I am trying to collect any information when this branch was formed, and by whom.

email

Can anyone help identify this

Only details on the pre-printed note paper is Hill House, Woolton, Liverpool and the phone number Gateacre 111. The name signed is B. H. Collie i think!

Thanks for your investigating, hope to hear from you soon, Lowri email

I notice that Gateacre Grange, originally the home of Andrew Walker, and latterly used as a home for sailors is now being developed. I know the land was owned by the charity The Apostleship of the Sea but I assume that they sold the site. Do you have any information about the sale and the purchaser of the land.

Billy Hargreaves

Hi Brian,

Wonder if you could help.

 "Researching" family history - well interested in a cluster of forebears between 1860 onwards - particularly my grandad born 1888 Much Woolton - Quarry Street.  Have been on a visit - really fascinating! Interested in the following:

  • Any information on the old gas works

  • The ironmongery in Quarry Street - would there be records ?

    • Hi, the ironmongery mentioned on your page could well have been the Blacksmiths owned by Bernie Blackmore, I think the smithy is still there, I know this because I nearly got an apprenticeship there in the early 70's. I lived in Much Woolton for some 18 years attending St Peters C. of E. (now Bishop Martin) Regards   Stan

  • The pub at the corner of Quarry Street and Rodick Street

    • Hi, I grow up in Woolton and went to St Peter's School and lived in Castle Street. The name of the pub in Quarry St, Rodick St, was called the Black Horse. As a kid I played with the Landlord's son at the back of the pub were there was an old stable and above was a hay loft which in those days stillhad hay in it so you can imagine the fun we had. Years later an artist called Arthur Dooley bought the pub and used it as his workshop. Alan. (Alan, if you read this there is a message below from Tipping - email who would like to talk to you about the 'Black Horse'.)

  • Places where I could order books on "old" Woolton

Regards

Email to Mo Woodall

I have visited Woolton and will do again, I have ordered some books but really intrigued as to these gas works!  Only live in Preston but working, family etc Will be visiting again soon.Thanks

M. Woodall

Brian, I found John Lennon's ATC record card when I was a firefighter at Garston fire station, following a fire at the ATC building during the previous night shift. I came on day duty and was asked by my oic to destroy a load of record cards that turned up on the fire station. Imagine my delight when John's card was blown by the wind towards  me as I sat waiting for the bin fire to die down before I put more cards into the fire. Because I found it there, I assume it came from a local ATC unit. Do you know of a master list of ATC members so i can confirm that John was a member? regards tom

Anyone who knows of a connection between John Lennon and the ATC, please contact tom mills

Would you have much info on the Woolton Quarry and would you know if I can find information re my GGG father who worked there in 1840 ish.  I would like to know if they had a staff list or if they would know if he died while working in the quarry.  He died before 51.   email Angela Foster

Hello Brian,  

I was wondering if you could shed some light on the Saxon Burial ground located behind the Fernlea apartments in Quarry Street. No one seems to have an ideal as to the identity or identities of persons buried there. Could you help.  

Kind Regards  Kieron Connelly, Resident of Fernlea.

Hello, I’m trying to find out if anyone remembers Oakfield Special School on Oakfield Drive. It’s now a new housing place but the pillars and walls are still there - nothing else left. I was at the school in the 60s with my friend Joan who I have just got in contact with after a long time.. Many thanks

Janet Randall

Hi Brian,

     I wonder if you could ask your readers if they have any recollection of a tiled swimming bath or boating pool in Reynolds Park in the early forties. It was in the main field as you came in from Woolton Hill Rd entrance - you followed the path past the quarry turned left down the side of a long shiplap fence over which was a large property used as a billet for forces female personnel, it was rectangular in shape on the two ends and  one side it had, if my memory is correct, lion heads with iron hoops in their mouths to tie up to and on the other side semi-circle steps going down into the water, though I never ever saw any water in it. I often wonder did they just fill it in or did they dig it out. I wonder if there are  any photos or drawings as I would be very interested to to hear from anyone.

              Keep up the good work,

                               Cheers,

    George                    .

Personal History

Just in case there is anyone out there who is past acquaintance of mine (Email given at the left).

I attended Woolton County Primary, Out Lane.

Infants - Teachers (Headteacher : Miss Garrett)

  • Miss Fiddler
  • Mrs Fisher
  • Mrs Bland (Twice)
  • Mrs Wright

Juniors - Teachers (Head : Mr O' Connor)

  • 1st Year - Miss Jones
  • 2nd Year - Miss Wright
  • 3rd Year - Mr Mathews
  • 4th Year - Miss Morgan

I was a member of 33rd. Allerton Scout Troop, based at the Congregational Church.

Cubs - (Akela : Mrs McKenzie)

Scouts - (Skip : Mr Wilson)

I was a member of 2359 Air Training Corps on Speke Road.

Brian Daugherty

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