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Linda Hufton with bricks in her garden,after a wall collapsed from the bowling club at the back of her West Derby house(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nLinda Hufton was heartbroken by what happened to her back garden – but what followed was even worseLinda Hufton with bricks in her garden,after a wall collapsed from the bowling club at the back of her West Derby house(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
A woman has described her heartbreak after a brick wall collapsed into her beloved garden and described the painful months-long wait for action to be taken to address the damage.<\/p>\n
Linda Hufton has lived at her house in West Derby<\/a> for 11 years. She lives alone following the death of her husband and said that taking care of her immaculate garden has become a crucial outlet for her.<\/p>\n Her garden backs on to the West Derby<\/a> Bowling Club in Mill Lane. The bowling club is soon set to become the new home of Zoe’s Place children’s hospice<\/a>, which is set to create a new state-of-the-art facility on the land having raised millions of pounds in a stunning public campaign last year.<\/p>\n But while Ms Hufton welcomes the new Zoe’s Place moving in behind her property, she is struggling with something that happened earlier this year.<\/p>\n She explained: “It was January of this year and I had been visiting a friend when there was a bad storm. I ended up staying at their house. When I came home the next day and opened my curtains to look at my garden, I couldn’t believe what I saw.”<\/p>\n Mrs Hufton said the whole wall from the bowling club behind her had collapsed following the storm, with large numbers of bricks coming down ‘like a deck of cards’ and smashing onto her patio. The bricks also smashed into her greenhouse, smashing it into pieces.<\/p>\n She said: “I just didn’t know what to do. I contacted my insurance company who came out and stacked up all the loose bricks for me. But there was a discussion about whose wall it was before it was decided it was the club’s wall.”<\/p>\n The 77-year-old said what followed was an interminable wait for any action to be taken to repair the wall and the damage to her garden.<\/p>\n She said: “For a long time it just felt like nobody cared. I was so upset about it. I really love my garden. I am a widow and I live on my own. I spend a lot of time in my garden and this destroyed parts of it – it ruined my greenhouse and my planters and it felt like I was just left to deal with it.”<\/p>\n Mrs Hufton was particularly perturbed when she says she received a letter suggesting the onus was on her to contact her own insurance company to sort the situation out. She said: “I thought they way I was spoken to in the letter was disgusting – to send that to a lady of my age.”<\/p>\n However there does appear to now be movement in terms of repairing the wall – or at least the promise of movement.<\/p>\n The ECHO contacted the bowling club and a representative told us there had been a delay in carrying out the repair work because of their insurance company, but confirmed that work to rebuild the wall would be starting on Monday.<\/p>\n The representative indicated they did not want to speak further on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda Hufton was heartbroken by what happened to her back garden – but what followed was even worseLinda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15,14589],"class_list":{"0":"post-169232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-west-derby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651283371665466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Linda](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Wall-collapses-into-Linda-Huftons-gardenfrom-the-bowls-club-at-the-back-of-her-West-Derby-houseP.j.webp\")
Linda Hufton with bricks in her garden,after a wall collapsed from the bowling club at the back of her West Derby house(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n![\"This](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749439640_285_0_Wall-collapses-into-Linda-Huftons-gardenfrom-the-bowls-club-at-the-back-of-her-West-Derby-houseP.j.webp\")
This image shows Mrs Hufton’s garden before the wall collapsed (Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n