Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Rose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresTemplemore Road, early 1980’sBidston RoadDuck Pond Lane – until relatively recently there was a duck pond at the bottom near the junction with Woodchurch...
Houses

Houses

Oxton Old Hall, Talbot RdFernleigh, Poplar RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdNunclose, Mount PleasantHolm Lane CottagesApsley Lodge, Rose MountWestholme, 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 Arno - SeesawThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno – Rose GardenThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno – quoitsThe ArnoThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

The Queen’s Arms, Storeton Rd. Thomas Hughes (of Hughes Lane) was publican from 1845, followed by his son, also Thomas, in 1874. (Picture is modern interpretation)Adams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsTalbot...
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...