This is a photographic assessment of the site of the Gardeners pub off The Wells Road on January 28th 2012. The weather was kind with blue skies, and the land was easily accessible.
On this occasion I met railway enthusiast Mr Taylor who lives in Kildare Road. He educated me about the Suburban Railway and the viaduct which bisected the site, taking trains north through St Ann’s station. He was very informative, and in his opinion little would be gained from an archaeological dig on this land because the foundations of the viaduct would have meant that any useful archaeological finds would have been discarded by workmen while building the huge structure.
Never-the-less, I believe the actual site of Tarbotton’s monumental edifice lies on accessible land on the south side of this site, along with the position of the last large house & gardens to be found here before the railway viaduct was constructed.
It means that Mr Greenwell was digging in the wrong location in 1987, and only succeeded in uncovering the remains of an underground stream.
The true plane of the land is equivalent to the surface level of The Wells Road, which means that any archaeological excavations will have to dig down to this point before uncovering any artefacts.
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