Dingletail / Dingle Point
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By 1825,
Dinglehead (sic) is listed in Baines's Directory as the residence of Thomas
Orford Jr, a merchant who had his business at 7 Argyle Street. The same
source lists John Ashton Yates, a broker, as residing at 1 Queen Square and
Dingletail.
'Dingletail' is actually shown on Sherriff's 1817
& 1826 maps
at the end of Dingle Lane, nearest the river, with J. A. Yates as the occupant.
This is the part of the site that was sold by Rev. Yates to James Cropper.
There was almost certainly a house already there before Cropper built
Dingle Bank. Dingletail, confusingly, later came to be called Dingle Point.
Little is known of this property. It is named on the 1847
OS map and Philip Mayer tells me that it appears named as such on Mawdsley's
maps from the 1860s
to 1888.
In
1905 its unmistakable
outline is still present on the OS maps and at the correct location, but it
is not named. This lack of a label may account for the comparative unfamiliarity
of the house name and the infrequency of references to it in literature, especially
as it shares its name with the coastal cliffs close to Knott's
Hole, however both house and cliffs are shown separately on the same map.
Regardless
of its name, it is no more, having been swallowed first by the Mersey Dock and
Harbour Board for their Oil Storage depot and later by neglect, reclamation
and the Liverpool Garden Festival