I thought the Edge Lane/Edge Hill area of Liverpool was desolate enough during the day but yesterday was the first time I really walked around it at night.

Empty street after empty street of boarded up homes, just sitting there waiting to be demolished. There’s something quite melancholy about walking around a ghost town that was once a busy community.

It won’t be long before nothing’s left of this area. Once grand but now dilapidated Victorian terraces and smaller family homes are going to be flattened to clear the way for the planned widening of Edge Lane. At some point, new homes will be built.

Those who fought so hard for their homes – and a fair compensation deal – but finally lost last year are now reluctantly packing up their belongings and moving on. There’s a lot of bitterness about the way things turned out.