Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Fairclough Lane -aerial photo taken 1920 showing Fairclough Lane, end of Glenmore Road and Rose CottageMill Hill A mill stood here for many years until the1850’s when it was demolishedBirch RoadSwan HillRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family...
Houses

Houses

Holm Lane CottagesApsley Lodge, Rose MountNunclose, Mount PleasantFernleigh, Poplar RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton Rd < Back to Main Images...
Leisure

Leisure

The Arno The Arno as we know it today was laid out in 1912.  Within the park can be seen the hollow that was the Earl of Shrewsbury’s stone quarry. The ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – quoitsThe Arno - SeesawThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno –...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Adams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsConfectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35The old HSBC bank at the centre of the villageSaid to be inside...
Churches

Churches

St Saviour’s St Saviour’s was built on Bidston Road between 1889 and 1892 to replace a church of 1846 that had become too small for the needs of its congregation.  The church was constructed of durable red sandstone, quarried in Runcorn, with a slate roof.  In 1941...