of Oxton 2004 - The Saga begins

With our tickets and campaign strategy planned, we stepped out into the mid morning, blue skies of Oxton, and set forth in search of the first of our twenty one gardens. My son had decided that he would give them a rating based on his own unique observations, some of which I have added throughout these pages.
Around ten minutes later we arrived at garden number 7 in Alton Road with its wonderfully framed gate post and compact organised garden. After a quick walk round, and a couple of pictures, we moved up the road turned into Village Road, and entered Holly Lodge (number 6). A much bigger garden with my son concluding that, unlike the first one, this garden would definitely "lend itself to a game of football" and provided a number of "good hiding places".

Holly Lodge received a 9 out of 10 rating on his scorecard, which meant that the remainder of the gardens would have a lot to live up to. We soon reached Rathmore Road and the splendour of house number 5 .. Oxton Lodge. A brief chat with the owner revealed that the house had once belonged to a shipping merchant, who would watch from his upstairs balcony as his boats came up the Mersey and set off to the docks to greet them when they arrived.

Gardens number 4 and number 8 followed in Templemore and Glenmore Roads respectively. Each of these proving to be uniquely different. In number four we walked down an archway of flowers before turning into a secluded back garden that contained a pond and mole house. In number eight we were treated to two very different fountains and a homemade chair with "elephant like" ears.

Having completed five of the twenty one gardens we decided to return to home base, to pick up the remainder of the family, and venture forth to conquer the remaining sixteen.

Sample pictures from each of the gardens mentioned on this page.

Garden Number 07

Garden Number 6

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