Yeah, you get massive groups of teenagers heading to the beach on hot weekends. There's usually reports of train delays later in the day due to fighting. Back in 2021 there were people attacked with an axe and a samurai sword.
Lifeboat Road was absolutely rammed full of cars all the way up a few years ago, too, it's only recently they've tried to control the traffic going up the hill.
Funnily there's a house on Shireburn that's been on the market since November 2022. If you look on Google Maps it's labelled as 'The I.Graham Residence' - didn't we have a physics chap named Ian Graham working for the club? I cycled past Lijnders near Lifeboat Road as he was out for a run during lockdown, too.
Maybe Bobby was hoping Shorrocks Hill was going to reopen?
I remember in '85, just after Heysel. There was a massive mob of Liverpool and Everton fans going down by the squirrel reserve at the bottom of Victoria Road. Loads carrying sticks and looking for trouble. I remember the Liverpool and Everton bucket hats most had on.
One time back in those days there was murder on the train going to Freshfield, then dickheads everywhere on Victoria, in the pinewoods and on the beach. I got a taxi back because I couldn't be arsed with that lot going back on the train. It's always been dodgy there in summer. Dickheads arrive from all over the place.
I don't recall Ian Graham. I'll look that house up. I remember when John Moores lived on Shireburn Road. At least it's quiet there. I don't think I'd have enjoyed living on Lifeboat Road in summer, like Bobby did.
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