Old Swan
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| Old Swan shown within Merseyside | |
| Population | 15,772 (2001)(Estimate by Merseyfire) |
| OS grid reference | SJ390915 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LIVERPOOL |
| Postcode district | L13 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
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Old Swan is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It is located fairly centrally in the city, bordered by Knotty Ash, Stoneycroft, Broadgreen, Fairfield and Wavertree. At the 2001 Census, the population of Old Swan was 12,938 (5,999 males, 6,939 females), increasing to a total of 16,461 at the 2011 Census.
Old Swan is centred on the road junction between Prescot Road, running east to west, Derby Lane (from the north) St Oswald Street (from the south) and Broadgreen Road (from the south-east). It is named after a public house called the "Three Swans", which served the pack-horse route along Prescot Lane (now Prescot Road) during the 18th century. The name was derived from the coat of arms of local landowners, the Walton family. The inn stood at the corner of Prescot Lane and Pettycoat Lane (now Broadgreen Road). The junction later acquired two more pubs, the "Swan Vaults" (now called the "Old Swan") and the "Cygnet" (now closed), while the original pub has been replaced by another, the "Red House" (now closed).
Several videos of Old Swan exist on the Internet: a short document of Old Swan in the 1950s, and two videos dating back to 2006 showing various shots of different streets in Old Swan.
In 2016, a short film was uploaded to YouTube titled "Old Swan 2016". Filmed and Directed by Matthew Manning,this was the first ever short film about Old Swan, containing interviews from disgruntled residents unhappy about the lack of access for pedestrians on St Oswald's Street and the traffic management system in the centre of Old Swan.
The short film also contains an interview from Richie Spencer, a trader in Old Swan for over forty years whose business has been effected since the Tesco store directly opposite and later the Aldi store directly behind opened.
Along with the above, the short film mentions the wide variety of surviving pubs in Old Swan, the demolition of the Curzon cinema (now a Home n Bargain) and St Oswald's House (now Tesco) and Old Swan in general.
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