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Lancaster Street, LIVERPOOL, L9 1BQ

Neat well maintained terraced housing in the Walton area of Liverpool.

A public house on the corner of York Street and Rice Lane.

The postbox is on the corner of Gladstone Road.

In 1864-9, a new workhouse was built on Rice Lane at Walton-on-the-Hill to serve the northern part of the West Derby Union. It was designed by William Culshaw who was also the architect of the nearby Toxteth Park workhouse. The Walton workhouse initially accommodated 1,200 inmates and its construction cost £65,000. It gradually expanded and by 1930 could hold up to 2,500. The main building was a long three-storey T-shaped block with males accommodated at the east and females at the west. The workhouse later became Walton Institution and then Walton Hospital until its closure in the late 1990s.

(Like many Sheds in areas subjected to bombing during the War, there was little glass in the roof, so 'indoor' photography was possible without flash). This was a rare engine originating on the former H&B Railway, J75 0-6-0T No. 8365, which ended its career at the little-known Cheshire Lines (CLC) Depot at Walton-on-the-Hill on the long-gone Huskisson branch. In spite of its importance in servicing locomotives of freight trains for Huskisson and the other North Liverpool dockyard stations, which came and went far and wide - also Specials for the Grand National once a year, Walton had only a small allocation of engines for local work. In 1947 the allocation of 16 comprised:- 2 4-4-0, 7 0-6-0, 5 0-6-2T and 2 0-6-0T. Although Walton Yard lasted until 1968 and Huskisson Goods until 1978, Walton Shed was closed in December 1963, all CLC lines and depots having been in the London Midland Region since Nationalisation in 1948.

15/02/05 - taken during the final days in the life of the high rise residential block hetherlow tower on the edge of walton hall park.

Judging by the sign saying "Show homes", this looks like it's being converted into apartments.

The ancient parish of Walton-on-the-Hill was swallowed up by Liverpool in 1895. You can still see the stone pediment of Walton Town Hall preserved opposite Walton-on-the-Hill church near its original site at the junction of County Road with Queens Drive.

An ex-War Department (WD) locomotive no.90010 stands in the front of the engine shed. 935 of these locomotives were constructed for the British War Department by the North British Co. and Vulcan Foundry between 1943 and 1945, for wartime use. Almost all were used in Europe during the latter stages of the war. They were designated 'Austerity' as they were built as cheaply as possible and expected to have a limited lifespan. After the war, 733 of the engines were taken into British Railways stock and were used throughout the network almost exclusively on goods trains and were invariably very grimy. The last was withdrawn in 1967. One of the type survives at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway it having been imported from Sweden. Walton on the Hill depot stood beside the Huskisson branch which ran from Halewood to Aintree and which was very busy with goods trains until the early sixties. As it happens, this photo was taken just a year before the depot closed in December 1963. The line closed in 1975 and was lifted in 1978. The site of the shed is now occupied by housing and no trace of the railway survives.