Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Christchurch RoadBirch RoadClaughton Firs, 1930’s. The house at top of Bennett’s Hill, destroyed in the War, was still standingRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresChristchurch RoadRose...
Houses

Houses

Hawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdHolm Lane CottagesFernleigh, Poplar RdNunclose, Mount PleasantWestholme, Storeton RdApsley Lodge, Rose Mount < 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 – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno - SeesawThe Arno – SundialThe Arno –...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Boot Repairers, Prices Lane, date unknownConfectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35Swan Hill Dairy, built 1931, employed 60 people and supplied milk to 40,000 Wirral householdsQueen’s ArmsAdams’ Butchers, 10...
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...