Strictly speaking, Speke Hill Orphanage was something of a conundrum. First of all, it wasn"t in Speke, the area of Liverpool that today is possibly best known as the location of Liverpool"s John Lennon airport. Secondly, there wasn"t a hill in sight, and in point of fact it had never been designed to be used for its current purpose. There probably wasn"t a living soul who could rightly recall how or why the former Mental Asylum had been given its original name other than those who assumed it was perhaps an attempt to give the old place a touch of the grandiose with a name bearing a similarity to Speke Hall, the Tudor mansion once owned by the wealthy Norris family, and now in the care of The National Trust, a few miles away. Though, bearing in mind the "clientele" of the old asylum, it wo
