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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul Philbin & Liam Thorp

'Missing house' on famous route to Anfield Stadium has baffled thousands of football fans

Nobody knows when football fans will be allowed back to Anfield again - but when supporters return many will be looking for a familiar sight on their way to the ground.

About 300 metres from the famous stadium there is a fairly unique situation, where a house in a row of terraces is essentially missing.

There are people living at numbers 335 and 331 Walton Breck Road - but when it comes to 333, it simply doesn't exist.

It is something many Reds fans who use that route to walk to home games will have seen and questioned.

So back in February 2019 - long before the coronavirus lockdown meant mass gatherings were put on hold - we decided to head down to the site itself and find out more.

Thankfully after a bit of knocking on doors we found Dave Wilson, who has lived a few doors down from the missing house for more than 40 years and knew exactly what went on with it.

He explained that the stretch of Walton Breck Road in question used to house a run of shops, including a wool store and a sweet shop.

And there was a small car parts shop based on the site of the missing house.

Then one night, more than four decades ago, there was a big fire.

Speaking last year, Dave said: "It was a small car parts shop. But it was completely full of tyres.

"Then one night in either 1977 or 1978 there was a big fire at the shop. I remember we got woken up by the fire brigade and told to leave the house.

"The whole place went up because of the tyres - and it has been like that ever since.

"I think somebody does own the land now, because they came and boarded it up and cleared it out.

"They knocked the whole of it down about 10 years ago."

"You can see by the wooden beam at the top how fierce the fire was - the whole thing went up.

We also spoke briefly to one of the neighbours living right next to the missing house - and while they didn't want to speak they said they didn't know who owns the plot.

But hopefully this history lesson will answer a few questions for the many Liverpool fans - and others - who pass it on a regular basis.

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