Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Rose MountFairclough Lane -aerial photo taken 1920 showing Fairclough Lane, end of Glenmore Road and Rose CottageDuck Pond LaneDuck Pond Lane – until relatively recently there was a duck pond at the bottom near the junction with Woodchurch RoadNewburns Lane. The...
Houses

Houses

Oxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdNunclose, Mount PleasantApsley Lodge, Rose MountHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdHolm Lane CottagesFernleigh, Poplar 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 Arno – SundialThe Arno – quoitsThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno - SeesawThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Adams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsSaid to be inside Wellington Road chemist shop, owned by several pharmacists over the years, including Arthur EllithorneWellington Road shops 1927. There was a draper,...
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...