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Beech Lane, LIVERPOOL, L18 3ER

Beside the A562.

The shadows of the winter trees are making a pattern of lines on the road.

The white bits are snowdrops heralding spring on the way.

Part of an area of leafy suburbs.

Leading towards Childwall.

A prep school overlooking the junction of Menlove Avenue and Cromptons Lane.

Detail of the gateposts of Calderstones Park, besides the obvious home of the Calder Stones, the park is popular for its botanic gardens, lake, 700 year old tree (The Allerton Oak) and annual tennis tournament. The figures on the gateposts represent the god Atlantis and were originally located on a building adjacent to Liverpool Town Hall which stood from 1861-1928. When the building was demolished, the statues which were carved by Edwin Stirling, were rescued and relocated to the Harthill entrance to Calderstones Park.

The Calderstones, thought to be the oldest monument in Liverpool can be found in the Harthill Greenhouse at Calderstones Park having been moved from their original site. Quote from an old document "An old gardener, when a boy at Calderstones farm informed me that the Calderstones did not originally form a circle, but lay on the top of a large mound by the roadside, partly buried, and forming a kind of cist. When the roads were widened, the stones were set up in a circle, as they now stand — one was set in Mr. Booker's field A large quantity of burnt bones, found when the mound was removed, were spread on the fields for manure. He saw no vases or earthenware of any sort, nor did he hear of any arms, coins, or metal, or stone implements being found. The stones lay level with the mound, and boys cut their names and footmarks on them, still visible." More detailed informaition http://www.dailygrail.com/guest-articles/2013/3/the-calderstones-liverpool

Calderstones School is now a comprehensive school located on Harthill Road in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton. Its most famous pupil is probably John Lennon, who named his first skiffle group 'The Quarry Men' after the school's former name of Quarry Bank High School. Other well-known pupils include ex-Labour MPs William Rodgers and Peter Shore. TV personalities include Derek Nimmo and Les Dennis. Sportsmen Joe Royle and Steve Coppell, both English soccer internationals, also attended the school.