I don't think you would want to go and visit Kirkby. You don't know where it is. Let me tell you. When I was there in the middle 1950s,
it was a small village about fifteen miles east of the city of Liverpool. As its name suggests, it had
a small church built out of stone and bricks by a small lake past the railway station and the small cluster of village shops. As to be expected in all Lancashire hamlets or villages, there was a pub where many of the inhabitants gather to drink and gossip in the evening.
It could snow heavily in the winter months, usually after January, and the snow covered most of the potato and hop fields all around the village.
A road, coming through the nearby town of Fazakeley from Liverpool, branched off just before the railway station to the trading estate and to Southport, about ten miles to the north. West of the village, across a man-made canal, was to be found the famous race course of Aintree.
What will you find there today if you go there ?
I guess the whole area has changed quite a bit. The fields between the two towns of Fazakeley and Kirkby would have disappeared and taken over by houses. The church, railway station and pub would probably be still there.
The inhabitants are no longer farmers but workers commuting daily by the train service to work in the city of Liverpool.
it was a small village about fifteen miles east of the city of Liverpool. As its name suggests, it had
a small church built out of stone and bricks by a small lake past the railway station and the small cluster of village shops. As to be expected in all Lancashire hamlets or villages, there was a pub where many of the inhabitants gather to drink and gossip in the evening.
It could snow heavily in the winter months, usually after January, and the snow covered most of the potato and hop fields all around the village.
A road, coming through the nearby town of Fazakeley from Liverpool, branched off just before the railway station to the trading estate and to Southport, about ten miles to the north. West of the village, across a man-made canal, was to be found the famous race course of Aintree.
What will you find there today if you go there ?
I guess the whole area has changed quite a bit. The fields between the two towns of Fazakeley and Kirkby would have disappeared and taken over by houses. The church, railway station and pub would probably be still there.
The inhabitants are no longer farmers but workers commuting daily by the train service to work in the city of Liverpool.
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