The Avenues Neighbourhood Network (TANN) covers the following roads in Liverpool: Arundel, Rossett, Gresford, Hawarden, Halkyn, Cumberland, Rutland, York, Cheltenham, Buckingham, Lancaster, Sydenham and Brompton Avenues, as well as Ullet Walk, Sherry Court, Walter Beilin Court, Rex Cohen Court and Lathbury Lane and the sides of Hartington Road, Ullet Road and Smithdown Road, which border this area.
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In 1915, following the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat, there were anti-German riots and demonstrations in many parts of the country. On Merseyside, her home port, they affected long-established German communities in Liverpool and Bootle. One elderly resident of York Avenue told us that she remembered an attack on a pork butcher's shop at the corner of Arundel Avenue and Smithdown Road during which the butcher's piano was said to have been hurled out of a first floor window
Sefton Park Presbyterian Church opened in 1879 on the corner of Brompton Avenue and Croxteth Gate, where Brompton Court now stands