Back in 2015 we appealed for help in solving a mystery. Where was the site of a 30,000 capacity football stadium, which had been the home ground of the Liverpool Caledonians FC during the 1891/92 season and subsequently of the Liverpool Old Boys rugby team? We knew it was somewhere between Smithdown Road and Picton Road, and that the land was leased from Charles William Tayleur, Henry Stokes, and William Sergeantson. Now - thanks to those who responded to our original appeal and some more recent work by the Bygone Liverpool research team - the mystery has been solved "beyond reasonable doubt".

The ground almost certainly occupied the area where the houses in Bligh Street, Banner Street and Bartlett Street were subsequently built. All the evidence is set out on the Bygone Liverpool blog at bit.ly/BLwcroft. Numerous press cuttings - reproduced on the blog - for the period 1891-98 point to this location. Several of them mention Wavertree Station (which was in Wellington Road) describing it as "only one minute's walk from" or "adjoining" the football ground. What originally prevented us from confirming the site was a newspaper cutting that mentioned a fixture being played at Woodcroft Park in November 1900. We and the Bygone Liverpool team now believe this to be a misprint - possibly for 'Wavertree Park'.