Dingle Vale, Dingle, Toxteth, Liverpool

Dingle Vale
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There was a house called Dingle Vale long before the road of that name was laid out. This old house was located at the junction of Dingle Road with Dingle Lane, with entrances on both roads. Dingle Vale's garden extended up Dingle Lane, halfway to Dingle Mount. Dingle Vale was built before 1835 (1835 Map: S Jones).
(Photograph John Roles Collection, with permission).

Data:
1858 Kelly's: Misses Kaye, Dingle Vale. (n.b. numbered 24 Dingle Lane)
1881 Kelly's: William Scott, Dingle Vale.
1888 Map: Identified as Dingle Vale.
1894 Kelly's: William George Scott, Dingle Vale, 26 Dingle Lane.
1908 shown on OS map, though un-named on map. (6d)
1911 Kelly's: William George Scott, civil engineer, Dingle Vale, 26 Dingle Lane.
1926 Kelly's: William James Nangle, butcher, 26 Dingle Lane.
1934 Kelly's: William James Nangle, 126 Dingle Lane.
1936 Kelly's: number 126 no longer exists, the house is no longer listed by name (nor in any directories examined after this -1966).

The house, Dingle Vale, was then demolished. The name was given to a new road which connected Dingle Mount to Buckland Street. Dingle Vale Secondary Modern School, later Shorefields School, occupies all one side of Dingle Vale.

A terrace of 17 houses were built on the site of Dingle Vale and its garden. 152 to 164 Dingle Lane were built on the site of the house, with 130 to 150 Dingle Lane occupying the site of the garden. To confuse the issue, there was a plaque set into the pavement wall of the end house (164) which read;- "Borough of Liverpool. Erected by the Health Committee, 1865". (It isn't known to what the plaque refers, but it certainly isn't the date of the building of the present houses). In 1865 Dingle Vale was the last house in that part of Liverpool's boundary, and it has been suggested that the plaque refers to the sewers. There is another such plaque in Ullet Road, opposite Windermere Terrace, and at least one other, elsewhere).

In Dingle Road the bottom half of the gate pillars of Dingle Vale (the house) survive in their original position, with some sort of lintel placed on the top. It is often mistaken for a fireplace.