Looking along London Road from the plateau of St George’s Hall, a kiosk-style building can be seen halfway up the hill.
It’s only a few hundred metres away, but according to Nanette Mellor, CEO of the Brain Charity, the stretch is sometimes made to feel like an arduous distance. “When some local people talk about Norton street, it’s somehow like we are a million miles away from Lime Street,” Nanette tells the ECHO, sitting in the Brain Charity café.
Norton Street, where the charity is based and where the city centre connects to Everton, is only a matter of yards away from the small block around the corner - which is in fact disused public toilets. The toilets have not been open for 10 years and are another marker of London Road’s neglect since the turn of the millennium.
