Liverpool painting No. 87. King Street.

Acrylic on canvas board. 21cm x 14cm

Took a few hours around the Garston area today. It never ceases to amaze me how many places I've never been to or seen before. I was in search of Oglet shore...I've never heard of it, so I had to root it out. I found this scene just down the road. There are lots north shore locations that look quiet and deserve a visit so I think I'll be going back in the future. More on Oglet next post.

http://www.merseyestuary.org.uk/index_files/NorthShore.html

Liverpool painting No. 86. Edge Lane .

Acrylic on board. 21cm x 14cm

The corner of Durning road. Companion piece for painting No. 85

Liverpool painting No 85. Gladstone Road

Oil on board 21cm x 14cm

Goodbye number 63. The demolition of Edge Lane and the surrounding area continues. As one old guy I spoke to remarked, they're doing a better job than the Luftwaffe.

Liverpool painting No. 84. Northway allotments.

21cm x 14cm Acrylic on canvas board

The allotments at the back of my house coming to life first thing this morning. These particular plots back onto the railway and always remind me of a of a time gone by…dig for victory etc.

During the First World War Germany's blockade caused food shortages which increased the demand for allotments. One source of land suitable for allotments but not large enough for general agricultural use was the land owned by railway companies. These parcels of land were often allotted to the railway workers and this is the reason that you will often see allotments by railway lines today.

http://www.allotment.org.uk/articles/Allotment-History.php

Liverpool painting No. 83. Anfield Road.

Originally known as Walton-on-the-Hill Board School - up until the first part of the 20th century.

This school is famous for its Bell Tower - inevitably believed to be haunted. Originally listed as a single school, it is currently separate infant and junior schools located within the same building. Bessie Braddock is one of the school’s most famous pupils. The school was evacuated to the Ysgol Llangynfelyn ('Taliesin School') during the second world war, most of the children living in the main villages of Tre-Taliesin and Tre'r-ddôl. There were also Anfield Road children at Ysgol Tal-y-bont, a little over a mile further south on the Aberystwyth-Machynlleth road.
http://liverpool-schools.co.uk/html/anfield_rd.html

Liverpool painting No. 82. Castle Street

Watercolour 21cm x 14cm.

Castle Street would have led down to Liverpool castle on the site of the Queen Victoria memorial in Derby Square. It is one of the seven original streets of Liverpool. By the 19th century it was home to the commercial quarter of Liverpool and has many fine buildings which were either banks or insurance headquarters. At its head standsLiverpool Town Hall.
Another one of Liverpools original seven streets.

http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/heritage/ancestry/people-and-places/liverpool-streets

Liverpool painting No. 81. Albert Dock and the Brocklebank

SOLD

Watercolour 21cm x 14cm

Brocklebank escorted the Royal Yacht Britannia into the Mersey and pushed and pulled countless liners, warships freighters and tankers around the docks.

Following retirement in 1989, she is now the only seagoing vessel owned by a UK national museum.

Brocklebank sails around Britain’s coast as a floating ambassador for Merseyside Maritime Museum.

She is the last operational example of a traditional tug built for the Mersey.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/04/27/veteran-mersey-tugboat-brocklebank-open-to-the-public-this-bank-holiday-100252-26323945/