Amongst other objects of interest that have disappeared at Everton, may
be numbered "Gregson's Well," which stood on the left hand side of the
gateway of Mr. Gregson's mansion. This well, before water was brought
into our town in such abundance, was a great resort for the matrons,
maids, and children of the neighbourhood, and slaked the thirst of many a
weary traveller. It was a fine spring of water, and was approached by
stone steps: the water issuing from a recess in the wall. "Gregson's
Well" was a known trysting-place. There was an iron railing which
enclosed the side and ends of the well, to prevent accidents. The water
from the well is still flowing, I have been told. The stream runs
underground, behind the houses in Brunswick-road--or, at least, it did so
a few years ago. I have seen the bed of the stream that ran in the olden
time down Moss-street, laid open many times when the road has been taken
up. There was a curious story once current about the way that
Brunswick-road obtained its name. It is said that when the new streets
in that vicinity were being laid out and named, the original appellation
which it bore, was chalked up as copy for the painter; but a patriotic
lady, during the absence of the workman rubbed out the old name and
substituted for it "Brunswick-road," which name it has ever since borne.

Where Mr. Gregson's house stood, or nearly so, there was a house which,
in the early part of the last century, belonged to a gentleman and his
sister named Fabius. Their real name was Bean; but, after the manner of
the then learned, they assumed the name of Fabius, from "Faba." Mr. or,
as he was called, "Dr." Fabius was an apothecary, and received brevet
rank--I suppose from being the only medical practitioner about. At any
rate, from the limited population of the vicinity, he was doubtless
sufficient for its wants. This Mr. Fabius was one of the first Baptists
in this part of the country, and in 1700 obtained a license from
Manchester, to use a room in his house as a prayer-room for that
particular class of worshippers. Mr. Fabius and his sister Hanna built,
after a short time, a chapel or tabernacle of wood, in their garden, and
gave to the Baptists "for ever" the "piece of land adjoining the
chapel-field," as a burying-place; and in this little cemetery have all
the earliest leading members of this influential body been interred. It
has been quite full for some years, and in consequence th