Everton Park

The cottages and properties that made it such an historical place for hundreds of years have all gone, Everton's famous Village Street being something of a green oasis these days. Established trees are the new residents on the southern boundary of the modern Everton Park, this image looking down towards Browside and Netherfield Road South. On the left once stood the famous Queen's Head pub where, in 1879, St Domingo's fledgling football team had a meeting and decided to change their name to Everton FC. This rather desolate looking spot was therefore the birthplace of big time football on Merseyside and the rest, as they say, is history. It is marked only by a heritage board installed by the Friends of Everton Park although a successful archaeological dig took place on the site in 2015.

Everton Park, facing Prince Edwin Street, showing early 1990s landscaping, uploaded to the Netherfield Rd Facebook page by Denis Hargreaves.

A wonderful drone shot,featured on the Netherfield Rod & District Facebook, looks towards the Colonnades (formerly Everton Terrace) and main parking and viewing area in the park. The two strips of bare ground you can see highlight summer wildflower lines created by Richard Scott of the Eden Project to mirror some of the old street lines, The one on the right pays tribute to the famous Kepler Street, the one on the left Druid Street.

Everton Park in the winter snow, looking up towards the magnificent St George's Church on Northumberland Terrace. There is another similar image further down the reel that contrasts the snow scene with the glorious summer poppies, taken from the same angle. Brilliant!

Welcome to Everton Park. This wonderful view of the steeps steps on Netherfield Road between the 18th century lock-up tower and the former Everton Toffee Shop site is taken from Everton Brow at an unusually high angle. Thanks to whoever submitted this originally to the Netherfield Road Facebook platform.

This has to be the greatest view in Liverpool with the summer wildflowers in full bloom thanks to Richard Scott and his team with great support from the famous Eden Project in Cornwall.

Everton Park - what a brilliant place to visit during the summer wildflowers.

A great show of wildflowers on the park boundary with Heyworth Street.

Everton Park poppies and great view.

Everton Park's wildflowers towards the famous Nertherfield Road.

Everton Park in lilac towards St George's Church.

Everton Park in red and white, just to prove no football biase!

A sea of yellow at the Colonnades, once the famous Everton Terrace.

A sea of white at the Colonnades

Boys jog quietly through the wildflowers.

Everton Park in glorious blue, a nod to the birth of big time football in our city and the village where Everton FC took its name.

Everton Park, poppies and towers

Everton Park, wildflowers and a distant modern wind turbine near the river

Everton Park lives up to the famous song. If you want a cathedral we've got one to spare, or rather the city has in the distance.

Everton Park, poppies and the city view.

City view from the main car park.

Everton Park's summer wildflower meadows take your breath away.

Trees, flowers and what a view.

Everton Park's special view of the Anglican Cathedral.

A great days work in Everton Park with the 'Friends' team

The green slopes of Everton Park, once steep terraced streets until the 1960s.

Everton Park in the snow towards St George's Church. An image in stark contrast to the same angle below taken in the summer and showing the wonderful wildflower poppies.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Everton Park because of the story behind it. A wonderful show of poppies, courtesy of Richard Scott's outstanding wildflower work, sweeps up towards the northern gate at the St George's end. These poppies happen to be on the site of a devastating WW2 German bombing raid when a number of streets off Northumberland Terrace were taken out by parachute mines. My father Harry Rogers witnessed one of these deadly mines floating down as he ran for cover under Heyworth School where there was an air raid shelter. The poppies and other wildflowers now on the site commemorate the people lost in that raid and others within the famous district of Everton. The Friends of Everton Park continue to link with Richard, now doing great work with Cornwall's Eden Project, as we continue our annual wildflower activity across the hill. Everton Park, of course, symbolises and remembers the many famous streets that went before, their foundations still in place just feet below the modern sweeping green slopes.

Photographer Dave Wood got this fantastic picture of Everton Park's view with the two cathedrals in the background on a bright and sunny day. Excellent Dave. As we well know, the weather is changeable high on the hill, the image below showing a more misty horizon.

Everton Park's Northumberland Terrace entrance

This map of Everton Park has an intriguing overlay of the old streets that once swept down in straight lines between Heyworth Street and Netherfield Road. The inner red line you can see is the Friends of Everton Park Heritage Trail with its 13 points of interest regarding former historic sites: Everton Toffee Shop; Everton Lock-Up Tower; Birth of Big Time Football, Prince Rupert's Cottage; The Everton Village Cross; Greatest View in Liverpool; Everton's Victoria Cross Heroes; English Civil War Royalist Encampment; Everton Fire Beacon; St George's Iron Church; Lost Tribe of Everton; Streets in the Sky; Park Street Map.

Aerial shot of Everton Park looking south. It's hard to imagine the sweeping steep streets that once ran under the modern park greenery, but you are able to pinpoint your street by looking at the park overlay map above.

Friends of Everton Park worked tirelessly to secure England Wildflower flagship status for the park site, working with expert Richard Scott who is now with the world famous Eden Project in Cornwall. Scott and FOEP originally worked closely with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the end product can be seen every summer, not least the park's wonderful poppies.

Everton Park sits atop many of the old terraced streets that once swept down the hill between Heyworth Street and Netherfield Road. It has the greatest views in Liverpool, not least of the city centre to the south and the River Mersey to the west.