Walk & Wednesday Pub Lunch #18 The Liver Hotel, Waterloo

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Today, we started from Sandhills Station, having travelled from Maghull Station by Merseyrail. 

We made our way out of the station a turned right along Sandhills Lane, uphill to the Canal Bridge...

 ...turning right, down steps, we  went onto the Leeds Liverpool Canal tow-path where we saw a number of narrowboats, heading towards Liverpool (at a guess, for the 2 Queens Visit - http://www.cunard.co.uk/cruise-types/anniversary-cruises-2015/liverpool/)...

 The first thing we spotted were Coots  and their chicks...

 

...We stayed on the tow-path until we reached the new bridge at Pennington Road. 

On the route we were lucky to see Spring flowers...

 

 ...and, after about a mile...

 ...ducklings...

 ...and more nesting geese...

 On a wall, next to Miller's Bridge was an interesting mural...

 ...Trywel rhaw gordd Bwyell (Welsh) meaning

Axe-hammer shovel trowel...

· adeiladu · build ·

(adeiladu is Welsh, meaning build)

David Jacques completed this project with Safe Productions for British Waterways & Sefton M.B. Council. 
Combined with educational workshops at Queens Road Community Centre, the project 

"looked at the contribution Welsh migrant workers made in the navigation of the canal and various construction works in the Merseyside area."

It also referenced a census of first language Welsh speakers resident in the region at the beginning of the 1900’s, reputed to number in excess of 30,000.

The tool ‘shadows’ (sourced from a Victorian tool catalogue) were cut out of fibreglass sheets and embedded into a concrete render, the tool names (written solely in Welsh) were stencilled onto the render and the circular ‘title piece’ is a mosaic.
As you will see from the photographs, young coots, moorhens, ducks and geese were everywhere...

 

 

 

 We crossed the canal twice...

and as we passed under Washington Parade we spotted (hard to miss) the first mural...

 ...and then, when we crossed back, just before Stanley Road, there were more murals...

 Still more geese...

 ...dog roses (Rosa canina)...

 ...and goslings...

 were seen. We were so lucky to do this walk at this time.
at Pennington Road, although not planned, we had to leave the tow-path as it was blocked off here for the building of a swing-bridge; just before the A5036 (Church Road).
We went left down Pennington Road, right along Linacre Road and then left down Bridge Road.
At the round-about, we went clockwise, crossing three roads turning left along Princess Way.
After a short distance we turned right into Rimrose Valley Country Park.

Keeping to the left, and parallel to the railway line, we crossed Rimrose Brook...

 and continued along paths... 

 ...and board-walks to eventually emerge onto Brook Vale. 
Here we turned left onto Brooklands Avenue and, where the Avenue took a sharp right we took a footpath to the left, leading us to Bramhall Road.
Here we turned right, continuing our walk to Park Road, where we turned left.
At the junction with Haigh Road we turned Left, crossing Crosby Road North at the traffic lights.
We had arrived at our planned destination...

The Liver Hotel

You can find out what we thought of our Wednesday Pub Lunch at my...

Maghull Foodie Blog 

After lunch we took a short wander along South Road, to the Railway station for our train journey home.

Another enjoyable Wednesday walk - our 18th!

W&WPL #12 - The Royal Hotel, Waterloo

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Route

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Our starting point today was Maghull Merseyrail Station.
Turning right, as we exited from the car park we continued along Station Road, turning left down Rutherford Road. 
We crossed the canal bridge, and continued along the tow-path towards Maghull Town Centre.
Before the swing bridge we entered the small park and headed for the right hand corner of the park.
Emerging on Hall Lane, we crossed the A59 (Northway) to continue along Hall Lane, then turning left along Liverpool Road South.
We took the first right along Ormonde Drive and, after a very short distance turned left down a signposted path along side Whinny Brook.

Crossing a bridge, over Melling Brook, we headed up a bank, turned left and, almost immediately right.

We were now on the Mersey Path and in Jubilee Woods.

Jubilee Woods

 Sadly there had been a fire but not too much damage had been done...

On the other side of the wood we crossed the River Alt...

...and Moor Hey Brook (you may not notice that one)
We continued along the road to the Northern Perimeter Road (A5207), which we crossed and continued straight ahead along Mersey Path to the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
Here we turned right along the tow-path...

Looking back at the swing-bridge

Along the tow-path we saw Flowering Current bushes... 

 ...and some nice murals...

Need to look back to see this one

pity about the graffiti

As we passed the sign for Rimrose Valley, we saw our first Butterfly of 2015...

... and Pussy Willows...

The map shows where we left the tow-path and how we headed across Rimrose Valley Country Park...

 ...with Dandilions in flower and seeding already...

...to emerge on St Mary's Road.

Taking the second left, along Bramhall Road, we emerged on Crosby Road North; 

...we crossed and headed down Great Georges Road. 
The Royal Hotel is at the end of this road.

Like us you could pop into The Royal Hotel or walk along Marine Terrace, or walk through the small park running parallel, to South road, where you turn right and continue to Waterloo Station.

Catch the train towards Liverpool changing at Sandhills Station, 

to catch the Ormskirk train back to Maghull.
A very enjoyable Walk & Wednesday Pub Lunch #12 in the sunshine.