Allerton Oak Website
An excellent website for Local History, Photographs and suggested walks. The site only has a few references to the Riverside Drive area but it is worth a visit.
read moreDisused Stations
This photo was taken 10th April 1955 and shows a train about to enter the tunnel to Dingle Station. The location is approximately where Greens Leisure Club is today.
The following is taken from the Disused Stations in the UK website
The most famous closed railway in Liverpool is of course the Liverpool Overhead Railway.
Dingle Station, Toxteth Dock, Herculaneum Dock, Brunswick Dock, Wapping Dock and Canning being perhaps the most local. Other Liverpool disused stations also feature on the website
A site dedicated to Dennis John Norton a Birmingham photographer …
History of the River
The story of the riverside is a fascinating one. Mike Royden's Local History Pages is a website well worth visiting to learn about the history of Otterspool.
Construction of the Otterspool Promedade wall started in September 1929 and was completed in 1932. The Riverside Promenade was opened to the public on the 7th of July 1950 (Old Photos copyright Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries).
A theme that seems to run through the history of the area is that of great ideas, many of which never see the light of day. Here is a sketch of the completed Promenade at Otterspool, …