(Above): An extract from Ordnance Survey 1:2500 Lancashire Sheet 106/15 (1893 edition). Was Woodcroft Park located immediately to the west of Ono, Abyssinia and Oak Street? On the right-hand edge of this map can be seen Wavertree Station, the entrance to which was in Wellington Road.

This area, to the south of Grosvenor Road, is now occupied by Bartlett Street, Banner Street and Bligh Street. It was the north-east corner of the Woodcroft Estate - and the only part that could justifiably claim to be within 'a minute's walk' of the former Wavertree Station in Wellington Road. When the Ordnance Survey surveyed the area around 1890, houses had already been built along the north side of Lawrence Road, with provision made for three side roads - to be called Southey, Wilkie and Ormsby Street - running towards Grosvenor Road. Could the plans have changed, and the area instead have been used as a football ground? As in the case of Site 1, a problem with this theory is that almost all of the houses in Bligh Street, Banner Street, etc., were already occupied by the time of the 1901 Census (31st March) so it cannot have been the 'Woodcroft Park' mentioned in the Liverpool Mercury for 10 Nov 1900.

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