farm land until the 1960s when the land was acquired for development. Paul McCartney attended Joseph Williams Primary School, then in Sunnyfield Road on the Prefab estate, from 1949 to 1953. He travelled by bus to the school because of the shortage of school places in Speke where he lived. The site of the former school, now opposite Viennese Road and Dorchester Road, is now occupied by new housing while an adjacent site was used to build a retirement living development called Joseph Williams Mews. Jodie Comer started acting at a weekend drama school called CALS Theatre School in Unit E2 (currently occupied by Poundstretcher) in Belle Vale Shopping Centre when she was about 11 years old. Every Saturday she did an hour each of singing, dancing and acting. Education Schools in Belle Vale include Childwall Valley Primary School, Belle Vale Community Primary School, Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Primary School and Belle Vale Sure Start. Gateacre School relocated to land off Hedgefield Road, including part of the former Reggie Smith Playing Fields, in 2011. The move funded by the Building Schools For The Future scheme cost £30 million. The football facilities formerly on the site were relocated to a new centre at nearby Caldway Drive in Netherley. Places of worship St Stephen's, Church of England, Belle Vale Road, "Gateacre", Liverpool, L25 2PQ St Mark's, Church of England, Cranwell Road, "Childwall Valley", Liverpool, L25 1NZ Our Lady of the Assumption, Roman Catholic, Hedgefield Road, "Gateacre", Liverpool, L25 2RW Carmel Mar Thoma Church, Cockshead Road, Liverpool, L25 2RB Salvation Army, Liverpool Valley Corps, Mildenhall Road, Liverpool, L25 2SN Football Gateacre School is the home of West Cheshire League Division Three side Gateacre F.C. who were founded in 2012. Transport Belle Vale has its own small bus interchange next to the shopping centre on Hedgefield Road, connecting to, among other areas, Huyton and St Helens eastbound and Woolton, Halewood, Garston and Speke southbound. From May 2012 it briefly gained a service to Liverpool city centre, but lost it from January 2013 when the service was extended to Netherley and reverted to using stops on nearby Childwall Valley Road, along with other services between Liverpool city centre and Halewood or Widnes. The area has not had a train service since Gateacre railway station closed in 1972; the disused railway trackbed has been converted into a cycle and pedestrian path from Aintree