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Victoria Road, LIVERPOOL, L36 5SA

Contrasting housing styles on Victoria Road.

Huyton United Reformed Church stands at the corner of Seel Road and Victoria Road, this is the fourth building to house the congregation. Built in 1890, it replaced the previous purpose built place of worship in Hey Road which was built in the mid 1800's. Park Hall continued to be used as a day school until the early 1930's when the school moved to new modern premises in St John's Road.

Disused community hall on Huyton Hey Road.

Just east of Huyton Station the line from Wigan and St Helens joins the Liverpool - Manchester line.

The original Huyton Chapel was in Pinnington Place, built to seat 220 to 230 people and opened in June 1836. In 1856 it was succeeded by this much larger church in Hey Road, built of stone from the nearby Huyton Quarry. After the coming of the railway and building of grand villas in the area, the growing congregation transferred to the new, larger United Reformed Church. The old church, renamed Park Hall continued to be used as a day school until the early 1930's when the school moved to new, modern premises in St John's Road, it then became a community hall, hosting dances for the local people until it closed and was sold in 1986. Presently "to let".

The arch to the right would have been the original bridge, clearly too small for today's traffic, and now simply a pedestrian bridge.

Park Hall which was built in 1856 using stone from Huyton Quarry, is an attractive, neo-gothic, church building within the Huyton Conservation Area. The building was the original Huyton Congregation Church, which had become too small for the growing congregation. A new larger Congregational (now United Reformed) church was built in 1890 on Seel Road (https://www.knowsley.gov.uk/pdf/conservation_appraisal_victoria_road.pdf Conservation Area Appraisal, Knowsley Council). The old church, renamed Park Hall continued to be used as a school until the early 1930s. When the school moved to new, modern premises in St John's Road, the building became a community hall until it closed and sold in 1986. Park Hall is a grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 215264 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-215264-park-hall-#.VUYgLGd0x_s British Listed Buildings). Currently (2015) boarded up and “To Let”.

At the junction of Huyton Hey Road with Graham's Road. This is an extension to the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway bridge, which has been widened to carry 4 tracks instead of 2. this can just be seen behind the lamppost.