The geography of sectarianism had considerable reach on Merseyside. As its most northerly point, the town of Little Crosby existed as an almost exclusively Catholic enclave. Just north of Liverpool, Bootle's religiously defined areas included Marsh Lane (Catholic) and Bootle Village (Protestant). County Road in Walton was a ‘strong Orange area’, while Tony Birtill recalls the lodge bands deliberately playing loudly down his predominantly Catholic street in Walton. Anfield was said to have been very Welsh and Protestant, while the religious areas closest to Liverpool city centre are well known as Everton, St Domingo, and Netherfield Road (Protestant) and Scotland and Vauxhall wards (Catholic). In 1971, Frank Shaw wrote that the district encompassing the Adelphi Hotel, in the city centre, had been ‘a predominantly Irish area’. Bullough writes that Toxteth had ‘Orange’ and ‘Green’ streets, and Alf Mullins recalls the same denominational distinctions in areas of Garston, south Liverpool. Although these cited examples of ‘Catholic’, ‘Protestant’, ‘Green’, or ‘Orange’ streets are revealing of the wider remit of sectarianism in Liverpool, the religious heartlands were clearly designated in Liverpool northern dockside wards as two distinctive areas divided by Great Homer Street, as described by Pat O'Mara: