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Not to be confused with The Friary (Glebelands),
this is a distinct property which was situated towards the Mersey shore, along
with its sister houses The Priory and The Grange.
This
was actually built by Cragg. It included both a lodge and a cottage. The map
shows the railway dividing the land between The Friars and The
Cloisters, although the railway was built through after the houses were
erected.
Christopher Kerr (1) records that the property
came into the hands of The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament when they were expelled
from France in July 1903 (2).
There is no trace of this order in Kellys directories, where the property of
often missing. The house was demolished in the 1930s and the land was eventually
engulfed by the expansion of the Dingle Oil storage depots and dumping
to extend the Otterspool Promenade. The Liverpool Garden Festival later
occupied the site. The walls of the kitchen garden were still said to exist
in 1984 however.
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(1)
St Michaels Hamlet, Liverpool, Christopher Kerr, The St Michaels
Hamlet Society, 1984, ISBN 0 9509597 0 7
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The
Friars