Fieldway

Bluebell Lane

Dinas Lane

Altmoor Rd

Charnwood Rd

Sandyway

Wallace Drive

Unlocking Knowsleys Hidden Gems

Chestnut Avenue Kingsway

TWO DOGS

First published 2010 Amanda Meaghan

In Partnership with Knowsleys Arts & Heritage Services ‘Unlocking

Knowsleys Hidden Gems’ Project.

First published 2010 Amanda Meaghan

In Partnership with Knowsleys Arts & Heritage Services ‘Unlocking

Knowsleys Hidden Gems’ Project.

Compiled By Amanda Meaghan and residents of

Huyton

CONTENTS

Introduction Foreword The Writers The Origins of Huyton Famous Huytonians Did You Know Stuff From a village to a Town Moving to Huyton On a handcart Make do and mend Wartime Memories Internment Camps Camp Stories Eagle and Child & other pubs Childhood Days School Days and playing out Games we used to play Funny Stories Discipline Morris Minor Van Man Caldwell Poems Pagemoss Trams & Ditty Church Days In Huyton Memories flashbacks Biographies Local Pictures Old Huyton Map Bucket List Caldwell poem More Local Pictures

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Unlocking Knowsleys Hidden Gems

‘Huyton, Huyton

Two Dogs Fightun’ One’s a Black and ones a White ‘un’

An old rhyme of unknown origin

mentioned by J.E. Lloyd, in “English Villages in Rhyme”, Published in the Geographical Magazine

1944

Compiled By Amanda Meaghan With residents from

Huyton

This book has been compiled with the support of Funding by the Heritage Lottery fund and supported by Knowsleys Arts and Heritage Service.