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Carr Lane, LIVERPOOL, L36 4AU

Carr Lane, once cobbled, is now little more than a pathway running alongside a housing estate but it is an ancient road, part of the original "cross" configuration. During Medieval times Roby was a small agricultural village, clustered around this crossroad of what is today Station Road, Roby Road and Carr Lane. In the centre was a stone cross and a medieval market was held in its vicinity. The original cross and boundary stone, although moved, are located on the green at the top of Station Road.

Built c1840, this house with its elaborate cast iron work had two shops fronting it until the 1970's. Just next door are highly decorated cottages on Station Road and opposite, the original Toll Bar cottage.

Carr Lane was once a cobbled lane passing the sandstone quarry leading towards Gateacre and Woolton, skirting the grounds of Roby Hall. It is now only a path between Bowring Park Golf Course and a housing estate to the footbridge over the M62 to the fields beyond.

Used to collect tolls when the road was a turnpike

Roby Cross, a medieval sandstone pillar and base originally stood the corner of Carr Lane before being moved in 1979 to its present location. Although likely to have been a boundary stone it had previously been known as the market cross and may have been at the location of Roby market which had received a charter in 1304.

On the roadside sign of this public house is a golden eagle on a cradle. The famous "Eagle and Child" from the Lathom coat of arms was adopted by the Stanley family after the marriage in 1385 of Isabella de Lathom to Thomas Stanley. The Lathom lands in Huyton, Roby and Knowsley then passed on to the Stanley family (later Earls of Derby). Huyton-with-Roby civic crest also displays the Eagle and Child. In 1866, the Stanley Arms was the venue for an athletics day held for staff of the London & North Western Railway Company who lived and worked in the Liverpool area.

Adjacent to the Stanley Arms pub on Roby Road is the partially hidden Anderton Terrace, a good example of attractive terraced cottages of the industrial revolution era.

Sadly not open on this day!! As at February 2009 the kiosk has now been reported demolished, leaving a hole in the ground and some new concrete posts where it used to stand. This is a sad end to another piece of our local history.

Roby, like its neighbour Huyton, is an ancient village mentioned in the Domesday Book and still proud of its identity. These cottages are on a corner opposite the toll bar cottage on the busy A5080.