EAW004082 ENGLAND (1947). Speke, Halewood and the River Mersey, Speke, from the west, 1947

Site of original Speke Library in number 14 Blackrod Avenue. Bigger library opened in 1950's on Central Parade.

Stapleton Avenue

Site of Nursall's paper shop

Location of the gun pits for the HAA Gun Battery at Yew Tree Farm (GDA Mersey), designation number PP/H14.

Location of the gun pits for the HAA Gun Battery at Hale Bank (GDA Mersey), designation number unknown. The admin/accommodation buildings are located to the left of the gun pits.

Morris' Farm, the bungalow at the end of Quintbridge Cl in the corner is on the farm house site, base. part of what was the pond in the back garden

DELF LANE JOINS REST OF DELF LANE,AT ENTRANCE TO SPEKE TOWN FARM ENTRANCE FARM IS CAR LOT, NOW IS SECOND ENTRANCE INTO FORD DEALER CAR LOT, STILL CALLED DELF LANE.

DELF LANE LINE OF.

ORIGINAL DELF LANE EDWARD'S LANE BRIDGE, CROSSING RUNS FROM SPEKE TOWN FARM,AND DOWN TO NEW ROUNDABOUT SPEKE TOWN, ONE IN PIC ALL NEW, ROADS

HUNT'S CROSS WEST JUNCTION BOX.

NOW DOBBIES CAR PARK, SPEKE HALL AV, side, FROM AIR PORT

SPEKE TOWN, SITE OF.

Whitefield's Farm, Night of the 29th August 1940, was damaged during an air raid, and 300 tons of hay went up in flames

HONEY HALL FARM.

ROSE FARM.

IT WAS ONLY THE PEDESTAL, NO CROSS AT THIS TIME AND WAS PRE 1910.In the 1960s CHANGED FROM ROUNDABOUT BACK TO CROSS ROAD, AKA NAME OF, HUNT'S CROSS, FOX HUNT MEETING POINT. the medieval stone pedestal of the village cross had to be moved a short distance, to the corner of Hillfoot Road and Speke Road.

HALEWOOD DUCK DECOY,HIGHEST SPRING TIDES CAUSE THIS ALL TO FLOOD AND ACROSS THE ROAD STILL.

HALEWOOD LANES END, & DERBY ARMS INN, NOW DERBY COURT, APARTMENTS.

ASHTON HEY & HARE FIELD.

WELLBROOK COTTAGES,ORIGINAL 2 .

WELLBROOK HOUSE.

BROOK HOUSE,

DITCHFIELD ROAD.

DITCHFIELD HALL, NOW SANDY AV ESTATE.

Highest spring tide, always flooded these fields behind, if you look how full Ditton brook is, it's tidal up to this point, approx, and Hale duck decoy, and floods the road Hale Gate rd, Town Lane still 2019.

END OF SPEKE BOULEVARD FROM 1938 UNTIL FORD PLANT 1960.

HOUGH GREEN STATION.

DITTON ROAD.

St. MICHAEL'S CHURCH,St. MICHAEL'S ROAD.

DITTON BROOK.

SITE OF LOVEL'S HALL,MOATED,

HALE BANK STATION.

DITTON JUNCTION STATION.

HOLLAND'S HOUSE.

NEW HUTT.

Old Hutt, the Hutt was fortunate to see the end of the War. On the night of the 29th August 1940, the second floor of the Gatehouse received extensive damage when it was the victim of a firebomb attack resulting from enemy action. Whitefield's Farm nearby was also damaged and 300 tons of hay went up in flames.

METAL BOX PLANT.

HALTON CASTLE, RUNCORN.

WWII PREFABS. QUICK BUILD TEMPORARY EMERGENCY HOUSING!!,MANY IN USE WELL INTO 70s , NOT THESE, SOME ARE STILL IN USE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 2019.

WWII PREFABS. QUICK BUILD TEMPORARY EMERGENCY HOUSING!!,MANY IN USE WELL INTO 70s , NOT THESE, SOME ARE STILL IN USE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 2019.

FOOT BRIDGE, FOLLOW HEDGE LINE TO LEFT BRING U OUT PORTWAY, HIGHER RD. TO THE RIGHT ALL THE WAY TO MORRISONS CAR PARK AS NOW,WHERE IT JOINED OLD HUTT LANE,ALDERWOOD AV SPEKE ESTATE.

HUNTS CROSS HOTEL.THEN.

St HILDA'S CHURCH.

HALEWOOD HOUSE.

HALEWOOD SIDINGS, NOW A PARK

This is the western spur of the Halewood Trianglular Junction. At the time this photo was taken you could travel to Southport from Liverpool Central (high level) using this connection from the Warrington/Manchester line to the North Liverpool loop line routed via Gateacre, Knotty Ash, West Derby. Clubmoor, Warbreck and Aintree. The Southport Cheshire Lines Extension beyond Aintree Central to Southport Lord Street closed to passengers on 07/01/52 - Infrequent passenger_ trains ran to Aintree until 1960, but mainly to and from this station to Manchester or Warrington. The loop line, from the beginning, was mostly intended for use by freight trains anyway. Goods train services ceased in the seventies when the lines to Huskisson Depot and Aintree Central were lifted in stages and the loop line finally lifted in 1975 to complete the closure of the entire line.

Hunts Cross - the actual cross

Hunts Cross Station

Site of Speke Railway Station with express going towards Liverpool Lime Street

Runcorn Railway Bridge with Transporter Bridge behind

Junction of Western Avenue and Bray Road

De Havilland Rapide