Iconic Feature Close To Completion At Hill Dickinson Stadium

Everton Way is on the path to welcoming supporters to Hill Dickinson Stadium later this summer.

The paved walkway at the Club’s stunning new waterfront home, featuring 36,000 personalised granite stones from Evertonians across the world, is now close to being completed, on schedule.

And plans are well under way to map the locations of each stone to inform supporters where they can find their individual messages.

Kevin O’Brien, Director of Intaglio Creative, who are managing the installations, confirmed: “We are pretty much finished as far as laying is concerned.

“As everyone knows, 36,000 stones were sold and there's about 34,500 in the ground right now. Those last 1,500 will be in before the end of next week, then we've got the timeline to finish and we’ll be into the cleaning, sealing, and grouting.”

The timeline, featuring key moments in the Club’s long and illustrious history, runs along the top of the entire length of Everton Way, providing a fitting addition to the scheme.

And O’Brien added that his staff are mapping the site as they go, as Intaglio Creative gear up to send out the all-important emails to fans, detailing the locations of their stones.

“If you just have a look at some of the messages on here, they have a deep emotional meaning for a lot of the supporters and they'll be coming and looking at them game after game, year after year, season after season,” he explained.

“Aesthetically it looks absolutely fabulous, and everybody who has a stone in Everton Way will get an email with a location map on.

“We’re working on that right now and we’ve already mapped around 10,000 of the stones in the ground now, so we know where about a third of them are.

“That's a continual process that we're working on. And at some point later on in the summer, everybody will get that email with a simple location map directing them to their specific area of Everton Way.”