Issue 132 – June 2017
VANISHED GARDENS By Stephen Guy, West Derby Society
EFFICIENT transport is essential for good communications and the movement of people and goods. This is true not only today but centuries ago when travel was much more difficult than now. Britain led the world creating a system of railways that changed life almost beyond recognition in just a few decades. A national network developed throughout Victorian times, sometimes creating conflict between the railway companies, landowners and communities. In the 1870s a cutting was constructed through Sandfield Park when the Cheshire Lines built a new railway serving West Derby Station. The park was only about 20 years old and not all the residents were happy. It may have been one reason the ship-owning Bates family vacated Bellefield, their mansion near the railway. The house, later the site of Everton’s training ground, stood empty for more than 40 years. Stone from the cutting was said to have been used to build Leyfield Priory, the home of Peter Thompson, Cheshire Lines’ chief engineer. There was less road traffic after the railways were built. This was particularly true on main roads between towns although local journeys still had to be made by road. Things changed again with the invention of the internal combustion engine and the arrival of cars. Until the First World War, motors were the preserve of the well-off.
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Many got rid of their carriages and bought cars, turning their stables into garages. American Henry Ford was among the first to create mass production using assembly lines and cheaper cars became available. Town planners realised that things would soon be changing fast. Queens Drive started as a tree-lined boulevard in Edwardian times but still, with the addition of some flyovers, manages to cope with modern traffic. Knotty Ash Gardens (pictured) stood at the junction of Eaton Road and East Prescot Road. This very rare photograph, from an old postcard, shows the view from the Knotty Ash pub towards Eaton Road. In the background are Garden Cottages. A child walks towards a classical stone summer house with four columns. It was decided to widen East Prescot Road after the First World War. Plans to demolish the Village Hall were thankfully abandoned. Instead a second carriageway was created which destroyed most of Knotty Ash Gardens including the summer house. n Join the West Derby Society at West Derby Courthouse open 2pm to 4pm most Sundays April to October, admission free.
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