EPW018923 ENGLAND (1927). Gladstone Dock, Bootle, 1927

Linacre Road railway station. This station was closed in 1951 as was the next station called Ford before the line reached Aintree. Until closure there were regular electric train services between Aintree Sefton Arms station and Liverpool Exchange through the North Mersey Branch Junction and Bootle stations. The only passenger services to Aintree after 1951, were during the Grand National meeting These services were provided by the Overhead Railway until 1956 , this railway closing later that year.

North Mersey Branch Junction. The railway line curving to the south connects to the Southport line and was used by electric trains from Aintree to Liverpool Exchange until 1951 This line still exists to Aintree only, but singled, and is in a very poor condition. There were possibilities that a Merseyrail service would be reinstated to Aintree serving the Giro Centre close to the old Ford station, but no further news on this happening.

North Western Rubber Co. Hawthorne Road, Litherland

Brotherton's Tar Distillery Hawthorne Road, Litherland

Bryant & May Match Works Linacre Road, Litherland

Seaforth & Litherland Railway Station Liverpool Southport Line Overhead Railway

St Philips Church, Litherland

Beach Road School, Litherland A Military Hospital during WWI The school is to be demolished

The Litherland Hotel (Priory)

Atlantic Steam Laundry. WW2 gas decontamination unit for Bootle until it was bombed in the May blitz. Gas was never used

A large scrap iron and steel recycling plant exists here in 2012

The P&O Irish Sea ferry to Dublin leaves from here - on Gladstone Branch Dock No 3 - in 2012

River Mersey

Royal Seaforth Dock later developed here

Swing bridge

Gladstone Branch Dock No 2

Gladstone Branch Dock No 1

Tramway route

Seaforth Sands Station, Liverpool Overhead Railway. The whole overhead system has since closed

Rolling stock depot, I think

Hydraulic engine house

North Mersey Goods Station

Hornby Dock

Possibly a dredger

Dredger, possibly

Dredger, possibly

This is where I lived 1952 to 1967?

This is where I lived 1952 to 1967?

This is where I lived 1952 to 1967?