IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Vernon Street, ST. HELENS, WA9 1LW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Vernon Street, WA9 1LW by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (32 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Last orders called
The Furnacemans Arms, Pocket Nook Street, one of many closed pubs in the area.
Image: © Chris Denny
Taken: 23 Apr 2010
0.10 miles
4
Endless parking, St. Helens
This private car park and access road to a recent local authority office development is on the site of former industrial land (the Atlas Foundry once occupied this site) adjacent to the St Helens Canal behind the trees.
Image: © Chris Denny
Taken: 2 Mar 2010
0.10 miles
5
Higher Parr Street
The always busy Fingerpost shopping area is full of the type of shops regrettably becoming increasingly rare in our bland towns.
Image: © Chris Denny
Taken: 23 Apr 2010
0.11 miles
6
Site of railway swing bridge at Pocket Nook
The bridge swivelled on the Eastern bank of the Sankey Canal
Image: © Raymond Knapman
Taken: 3 Aug 2009
0.12 miles
7
Restored Sankey Canal from Corporation Street
The view from the opposite end from that shown in the First Geograph.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 8 Feb 2007
0.13 miles
8
Holy Trinity Church, Fingerpost
It is indeed sad news that Holy Trinity Church in Fingerpost is likely to be closed and demolished. The way in which it was constructed using copper slag blocks, cement and industrial rubble is probably one of the reasons it is so costly to maintain.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 4 Nov 2007
0.14 miles
9
Holy Trinity Church, Parr Mount
Holy Trinity Church was built in 1857 in the “Early English “style”, simple with a layout based on the typical rural church of the 13th Century. The church was built to a T-shaped plan. There were galleries at the west end and in each transept, and the building could seat 616 people. In 1886 the church was extended and reordered in order to accommodate changes in the style of Anglican worship in the late Victorian era.
Parr/Fingerpost was not a wealthy area so a cheap and plentiful local material was used for the outer face of the solid walls: slag from the local copper works. This very hard, glassy material (a waste product) was used locally for building although its use in building declined and was almost extinct by the 1880s; very few slag buildings survive today.
The church is a Grade II listed building (Historic England List Entry Number: 1199308 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1199308 ).
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 12 Apr 2019
0.14 miles
10
Preparing the ground
Ground clearance in progress in preparation for the building of a new office block for Helena Housing.
Image: © Chris Denny
Taken: 27 Oct 2010
0.14 miles