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[SimonB]

Does anyone know anything about the hotel on the corner of Prescot Road where you can fork off towards Thatto heath, opposite the benches near one of the entrances to Taylor Park?

Quite a grand building and i remember that the hotel has been there a long time - as long as i can remember (although i am only 25!) but yet there never seems to be many customers knocking about.

Has it always been a hotel or was it some rich businessman's residence in days gone by??

[Vanwall]

SimonB, on May 24 2007, 10:20 AM, said:

Does anyone know anything about the hotel on the corner of Prescot Road where you can fork off towards Thatto heath, opposite the benches near one of the entrances to Taylor Park?

Quite a grand building and i remember that the hotel has been there a long time - as long as i can remember (although i am only 25!) but yet there never seems to be many customers knocking about.

Has it always been a hotel or was it some rich businessman's residence in days gone by??

Is it not the Park Hotel?

[Griffin]

No, the Grange Park Hotel has bitten the dust and is now apartments. I think the reference is to that guest house at the left of the traffic lights as you turn into Lugsmore Lane. That used to be two large semi-detached houses when I lived nearby in the eighties. I believe that one or the other of the houses may have been that maternity clinic we were talking about some time ago - it was certainly in that row somewhere, I'm sure. At some stage, someone bought both houses and converted them into one premises as a guest house.

[Dave D]

The building on the corner as you turn into Lugsmore Lane from Tollbar goes by the name of The Park View its a guest house/ BB think its used by long term residents.

[brunty]

i lived in owen st and i used to mate about with the lads who lived in them both, they were americans their father was an officer at burtonwood col john carline, on the corner of owen st. lived major john addams also an officer at burtonwood this would be 1953 55 nice people i left 1960 and they were still occupied by the americans. happy days

[donkey o'tay]

Is this area classed as Portico or am I getting mixed up?

[brunty]

the area is classed as toll bar donks, portico starts up scholes lane thatto heath and stretches to behind the grapes the posh people call it eccleston park.

[Carr Millite]

Behind the Grapes IS Eccleston Park. I used to live there so I should know.
Dunno about posh though.

[brunty]

we know its eccleston park but they dont like it being called portico.

[familyman]

bruntyed, on May 26 2007, 12:16 PM, said:

we know its eccleston park but they dont like it being called portico.

Portico is talked about in this topic.

http://www.sthelens-connect.net/forums/ind...showtopic=12896

[the olden days]

The Park Hotel at Toll Bar was a Maternity Nursing Home in the forties run by a lady called Nurse Saunders. My parents knew her and I loved to visit and see the babies - probably about six of them.

[Alan]

theoldendays, on 18 April 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

The Park Hotel at Toll Bar was a Maternity Nursing Home in the forties run by a lady called Nurse Saunders. My parents knew her and I loved to visit and see the babies - probably about six of them.

It was called Ingleside and I was born there in 1942

[gypsygeoff]

Eccleston park is Knowsley,Portico is St.Helens.

[RATTY]

Eccleston Park have brown bins and pay their dues to St Helens Council, the post code is L34 though and the address Prescot, a bit schizo intit.

[Olliebeak]

Here's a link to the Park View Hotel website - found their 'Fawlty Towers' music hilarious.

http://www.parkviewhotel.net/

The website links to reviews from Trip Advisor (http://www.tripadvis...de_England.html) - majority very favourable but just the ONE very disgruntled from quite a long time ago.