A quiet walk in the low winter sun on the first day of 2017. My feet, in charge as ever, take me in the opposite direction to my usual tendencies and out into the suburbs, arriving at the perfect vision of an England from a hundred years ago that is All Hallows church.
The Reader Organisation doing a good job of reviving and reusing several of the buildings in the park. They run a good café here too. So I get my lunch and go for a sit and a read somewhere special.
Singing his songs quietly (I hope?) to myself as I get up and walk around the English Garden where Harry’s friend John Lennon would go when he’d bunk off school.
These facts from a book in my Liverpool books collection ‘The Calderstones: A prehistoric tomb in Liverpool’ by the Merseyside Archaeological Society.
A treasure then. And displayed in a plastic greenhouse? Well at least we have them. And maybe there are plans, just a thought?
Still singing along with Harry Nilsson, as I have done most of my life, on this quiet New Year’s Day.
I wasn’t aware test there were Neolithic remains in the Liverpool area Spiral designs can be seen on standing stones in the west of Scotland.
Hi Robert, well as you can see the treasure is not exactly treasured. It was apparently still an intact tomb until the 1830s, when it was broken up and some bits went who knows where. Then the stones we do have spent the first half of the 20th Century as a decorative stone circle at the front entrance to the park. Nearby roads as they were developed were given nonsense historical names like ‘Druidsville’ and ‘Druid’s Cross.’ Then eventually they were awarded the plastic home where they now sit. By no means grand but the most respect they’ve had since the early 1830s!
I have just realised Ronnie, that we saw you right at the entrance, at least all I saw was your camera.. my husband recognised your photograph. The park was busier than we had ever seen it. Have you ever been to Princes Park? it’s neglected but one of my favourites and it was a place of healing for Helen Forrester of “Twopence to Cross the Mersey” fame
Amazing history! And the photos spot on!