Reproduced coutesy Liverpool City Libraries

This is an old painting by a local artist called Magennis, which shows some of the gardens behind the Mason Street houses. The garden in the foreground would have been standing on a large brick arch, with its mouth behind and beneath the artist. It was from these arches that the tunnelling began. Today, the only trace that remains of the orchards behind the Mason Street houses is a single surviving apple tree on the inaccessible land behind the site of Williamson's house. The tree still flowers and produces a small amount of fruit in the summer.

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