A new build housing estate tucked away in the north of Liverpool is heavily linked to WWI and includes a pond that was used as a peaceful refuge for soldiers.
Poppyfields is off School Lane in Maghull and is a development hundreds of new homes led by Persimmon. The land on which the houses stand was once Moss Side Hospital, which opened in 1914 as a "pioneering" institution which recognised and treated the condition then known as 'shell shock', now diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
By spring of 1914, Moss Side housed almost 500 patients. Over the course of WW1 it treated more than 3,600 men.
