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• East Lancashire Road
• Townsend Avenue
• Utting Avenue East
• Walton Hall Avenue
• Stopgate Lane and Strawberry Road
• Muirhead Avenue East
• North West (from the railway embankment to Townsend Avenue)
• North East (from Townsend Avenue to Longmoor Lane)
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The East Lancashire Road runs from Walton Hall Avenue through to Salford and Manchester. It was the second major road building in Liverpool - after the building of Queens Drive in 1927, which was also proposed by Liverpool's City Engineer, John Alexander Brodie. The road runs for just over twenty six miles to the manufacturing towns of south Lancashire, It was given the name East Lancashire road, or East Lancs for short, because the original intention was to extend the road from Manchester through to the east of the county - a forerunner of the M62.

The first section of the road was opened on the 29 April 1929, by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. The whole road was completed four years later and was officially opened by King George V on 18 July 1934 on his way to the opening of the new Mersey Road Tunnel.

Townsend Avenue as its name would indicate is where the boundaries of the city ended prior to the building of Norris Green. The road is another Brodie dual carriageway and is a continuation of Townsend Lane. It begins at the junction of Queens Drive (by St. Matthews) and heads north until it meets the East Lancashire Road.

Right: Utting Avenue East, photographed from Broadway bridge in 2001, looking eastwards towards Croxteth. The Avenue was named after Sir John Utting who was Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1917-1918. To the right of the photograph is Broadway.

Below: Utting Avenue East in the late 1920's and in 2005.

Walton Hall Avenue in 1928, looking eastwards towards the Crown Pub and the beginning of the East Lancashire Road. The houses on the right have recently been constructed and the side street on the bottom right is Scarisbrick Road, which leads through to Townsend Avenue and Broadway.

The Littlewoods Pools factory was constructed on the open field to the left of the photograph in the 1930's. The factory closed in the late 1990's and a few years later it was demolished to make way for a new housing estate.

Stopgate Lane: junction with the East Lancashire Road in 1950. The Road at the bottom of the picture is Strawberry Road, to the left is Walton Hall Avenue. Stopgate Lane is at the top of the picture and the East Lancs is to the right. The large building on the right is the Crown.