Saturday 10 March 2018

Anglezark(e)

No.1 Anglezark Street, Kensington, Liverpool 7, 1957. Early Victorian terrace end corner shop (Planning application for Anglezark Street Project redevelopment approved 2.8.1961). 

"SANPIC Destroys sink odours, TURF, SENIOR SERVICE and WILLS’S "STAR" CIGARETTES, ASPRO (aspirin), Brooke Bond Tea, NEW STORK CHANGE YOUR COUPONS HERE (margarine), CUTTY SARK PIPE TOBACCO, TIZER (carbonated soft drink)."

The manor of Anglezarke near Bolton was the property of the Earls of Derby in the 16th century (The title refers to West Derby, not the county town. The West Derby Hundred was the southwest division of the county of Lancashire, which included Liverpool). Local soap magnate Lord Leverhulme built a reduced scale replica of Liverpool Castle on his estate at Anglezarke in 1900.