I use to walk my dog through here and St Chads fields at the back of the Church about 12 years ago, Loved it there so many nice friendly people, and my ex mother inlaw had her funeral in the Church about 12 months ago. I hope to move back there very soon.
I can recall in the sixties, when dozens of kids surrounded the church walls waiting to see the Leprechauns,and the holy man telling us all to beat it,'there are no Leprechauns here,he was shouting.I was convinced for years afterwards that there were.
In the 1960's, I and a friend , Les J, from Southdene, while walking past the side of St Chads, saw a person, the shape of a man, but the height of a child, run very, very, fast, diagonally across the path that we were taking to visit a friend Rob D, who had recently moved to newly created Tower Hill from Southdene! I said " I didn't see that!. Did I" As the hairs stood up on my neck! and my friend Les said " No", Neither did I!" he said with a shaky voice! My Cousin Harry F, From by the Fantail Pub, told me around that time that leaving his then girlfriend's house, via the back of the house on the Old Hall Estate, and taking a short cut across the field next to Kirkby Church, saw what he thought was a kid sitting and throwing pebbles at a Church Flood Light, in the rain. He said to the kid "Shouldn't you be at home in bed at this time of the night?" The kid turned around and looked at him! - It wasn't a kid! It was a Tiny old man! "I legged it! my Cousin said! Not long after I and a friend Roberta were walking across the field and out via the stone 'stile' seen on the video at the side of the River Alt and noticed that the Church Yard and Cemetery was overrun with hoards of kids! I grabbed one and asked what was going on and he said "Pixies"! "we're searching for the Pixies". Around this time a teacher came up to me in school, St Kevin's, who knew I was studying art and asked me to do an illustration of what the two kids with him had seen in the sky near Kirkby Church - St Chads, to be given to the local newspaper, The Kirkby Reporter. It was a Triangular shaped UFO with with curved sides. Ufologists believed that 'Lay - lines' were the power network that UFO's use to fly around the Earth, and Ormskirk, Kirkby and Knowsley and other churches in Liverpool, such as Walton Church are all on this network. The story and pencil sketch subsequently appeared in the Kirkby reporter. A last interesting point about kirkby Church is that the River Alt, next to the Church, though insignificant now was once a main though-fare whereby ancient Sea Going ships similar to 'Viking Ships' used to pass to and from lord Derby's Knowsley Estate regularly, carrying goods and the Lords! What do think or know of this Magical Kirkby site?
Robert Baxter I remember the fishponds in the park And gatecrashing the vicars summer fete with about twelve other kids we were all around 4 -6 at the time the walk to Tower Hill was a really beautiful field where we went for picnics but the alt could get very smelly Back in 64 I remember that year it was in full flood in the winter and very wide and deep down by Overton green
Mark not many people can say they have been in the bell tower of this church but me and a few mates did the vicar at the time needed the bird poop clearing from the steps leading to the top and we got the job best view of Kirkby you can have memories that last a life time
Just for accuracy St Chads is in the town of Kirkby. Which is named in the Doomsday Book Knowsley is a village in Prescot. Which the local council derives its name from.
@@thewhitebackground AJ Plant, "A Short History of Kirkby" in the introduction paragraph He was a lecturer at the former Kirkby College of Further Education
@@thewhitebackground A bit of further information that may help. The Book was published in 1988, and the mention of district that was the become Kirkby can be found in the Doomsday Survey of 1086, twenty years after the conquest of Britain by King William, page 4 The Kirkby Library located in the former Kirkby Suite may hold a copy of the book. as they have a local history section
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I use to walk my dog through here and St Chads fields at the back of the Church about 12 years ago,
Loved it there so many nice friendly people, and my ex mother inlaw had her funeral in the Church
about 12 months ago. I hope to move back there very soon.
I can recall in the sixties, when dozens of kids surrounded the church walls waiting to see the Leprechauns,and the holy man telling us all to beat it,'there are no Leprechauns here,he was shouting.I was convinced for years afterwards that there were.
In the 1960's, I and a friend , Les J, from Southdene, while walking past the side of St Chads, saw a person, the shape of a man, but the height of a child, run very, very, fast, diagonally across the path that we were taking to visit a friend Rob D, who had recently moved to newly created Tower Hill from Southdene! I said " I didn't see that!. Did I" As the hairs stood up on my neck! and my friend Les said " No", Neither did I!" he said with a shaky voice!
My Cousin Harry F, From by the Fantail Pub, told me around that time that leaving his then girlfriend's house, via the back of the house on the Old Hall Estate, and taking a short cut across the field next to Kirkby Church, saw what he thought was a kid sitting and throwing pebbles at a Church Flood Light, in the rain. He said to the kid "Shouldn't you be at home in bed at this time of the night?" The kid turned around and looked at him! - It wasn't a kid! It was a Tiny old man! "I legged it! my Cousin said!
Not long after I and a friend Roberta were walking across the field and out via the stone 'stile' seen on the video at the side of the River Alt and noticed that the Church Yard and Cemetery was overrun with hoards of kids! I grabbed one and asked what was going on and he said "Pixies"! "we're searching for the Pixies".
Around this time a teacher came up to me in school, St Kevin's, who knew I was studying art and asked me to do an illustration of what the two kids with him had seen in the sky near Kirkby Church - St Chads, to be given to the local newspaper, The Kirkby Reporter. It was a Triangular shaped UFO with with curved sides. Ufologists believed that 'Lay - lines' were the power network that UFO's use to fly around the Earth, and Ormskirk, Kirkby and Knowsley and other churches in Liverpool, such as Walton Church are all on this network. The story and pencil sketch subsequently appeared in the Kirkby reporter.
A last interesting point about kirkby Church is that the River Alt, next to the Church, though insignificant now was once a main though-fare whereby ancient Sea Going ships similar to 'Viking Ships' used to pass to and from lord Derby's Knowsley Estate regularly, carrying goods and the Lords!
What do think or know of this Magical Kirkby site?
Robert Baxter I remember the fishponds in the park
And gatecrashing the vicars summer fete with about twelve other kids we were all around 4 -6 at the time the walk to Tower Hill was a really beautiful field where we went for picnics but the alt could get very smelly
Back in 64 I remember that year it was in full flood in the winter and very wide and deep down by Overton green
Mark not many people can say they have been in the bell tower of this church but me and a few mates did the vicar at the time needed the bird poop clearing from the steps leading to the top and we got the job best view of Kirkby you can have memories that last a life time
Just for accuracy St Chads is in the town of Kirkby. Which is named in the Doomsday Book
Knowsley is a village in Prescot. Which the local council derives its name from.
Can you link me to the passage in the book?
@@thewhitebackground AJ Plant, "A Short History of Kirkby" in the introduction paragraph
He was a lecturer at the former Kirkby College of Further Education
@@fisherpeter695 thank you
@@thewhitebackground A bit of further information that may help.
The Book was published in 1988, and the mention of district that was the become Kirkby can be found in the Doomsday Survey of 1086, twenty years after the conquest of Britain by King William, page 4
The Kirkby Library located in the former Kirkby Suite may hold a copy of the book. as they have a local history section