Crosby Beach

Crosby is a relatively upmarket suburb of Liverpool, just to the north on the way to Southport. For the purposes of this walk, I parked near Waterloo station (not the one in London), and got the MerseyRail two stops to Hall Road.

The station was the site of an accident in 1905 that killed 20 passengers. A local train was reversing here, and had been shunted into a side. An express was following behind, and the signalman was unable to change the point properly, and the express went into the siding too at some speed. The station buildings on the east side are well preserved and have a Blue plaque that remember the event.


The station is less than 600 m from the beach, but before we get there, you see Burbo Point Apartment. Apartments were first available to buy in 2008 - for £1.7M.


And so we get to the beach. This is the view looking north, towards Formby. It is an excellent beach. - although it looks a bit pebbly here, the vast majority is sand. And unlike nearby Southport, it does not suffer from encroaching grass.


Looking south. The hills in the far distance on the right are in Wales. The not-quite-so-distant hills in the left are Birkenhead.


The two people with a dog are talking a photo of a statue. This is one of a hundred cast iron statues by the artist Andrew Gormley, depicting his own naked body looking out to sea.

A closer look... There are at least four more in the background in this image.


Looking north again. The weather was better that way!


This one is half buried in the sand. You can see the cranes of Liverpool dock behind him.


Ships coming and going from the docks.


Coming off the beach, through the dunes.


Marine lake. This was part of the river, as was the dunes in the photo above. A land reclamation project in the early seventies created the lake.


This brings us back to Waterloo, which has its fair share of pubs, but not a lot of character outside of that!








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