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[tonyn]

anybody any ideas where this is , it looks like whiston tip

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[gypsygeoff]

There were two tips in the area,one was at the back of Coronation Drive,which is in Prescot,the other was down Lickers Lane.Its definately not the one in Prescot,also from the late 60's a few hundred thousand tonnes of rubbish was dumped down Duke Cloughs quarry.Which was the deepest in the area.

[stephen nulty]

If it's Whiston Tip, then where is this row of houses at the top? Can't say that I recognise this.

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[Olliebeak]

Could the houses be the ones off Windy Arbour Road (running parallel to the old railway line). I think there's an Off-Licence on the corner and Windy Arbour Road would have been along the horizon. The railway line at that point was 'sunken' so wouldn't have shown on a photograph.

Not sure what date that photo would have been taken.

I used to walk my kids from Pottery Lane, Huyton Quarry - though Stadt Moers Park, turn left and go under the tunnel beneath the M57. At that point there was a Knowsley Council tip on your right hand side with the 'Duckeries fishing pond' on your left. That's where the old railway line had run - it had been cleared away and turned into a footpath/cycle track. The houses that I think are in the photo, were up the embankment on your left. You could then follow the path to M62, going under Windy Arbour Road. At the M62 you turned left and followed another path into Halsnead Park Woods and 'Big Water'.

Edited by Olliebeak, 20 January 2011 - 09:29 AM.

[Thumpa lumpa]

I think I am right in saying, this picture is taken from near Tushie's brickworks, the row of houses are Willis Lane, leading from Windy Arbour Rd, I am sure in the distance I have looked through a magnifying glass, I can just work out St Nichloas's church, the council houses which now stand in Paradise Lane, had not been built by then.