Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Claughton Firs, 1930’s. The house at top of Bennett’s Hill, destroyed in the War, was still standingFairclough Lane -aerial photo taken 1920 showing Fairclough Lane, end of Glenmore Road and Rose CottageShrewsbury RoadBidston RoadChristchurch RoadPoplar RoadDuck Pond...
Houses

Houses

Nunclose, Mount PleasantHolm Lane CottagesFernleigh, Poplar RdApsley Lodge, Rose MountOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch 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 - SeesawThe Arno – Rose GardenThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno –...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Swan Hill Dairy, built 1931, employed 60 people and supplied milk to 40,000 Wirral householdsQueen’s ArmsThe 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...
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...