Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Claughton Firs, probably 1920’sRose MountShrewsbury RoadMill HillRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresBirch RoadClaughton Firs, 1930’s. The house at top of Bennett’s Hill, destroyed in the...
Houses

Houses

Hawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdFernleigh, Poplar RdHolm Lane CottagesWestholme, Storeton RdApsley Lodge, Rose MountNunclose, Mount PleasantOxton Old Hall, Talbot 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 – quoitsThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe ArnoThe ArnoThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Adams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsWellington Road Post OfficeTalbot Hotel, Claughton FirsThe Queen’s Arms, Storeton Rd. Thomas Hughes (of Hughes Lane) was publican from 1845, followed by his son, also...
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...