Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Christchurch RoadBeresford RoadRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresBalls RoadRose MountTemplemore Road, early 1980’sNewburns Lane. The washing hanging outside led to the local name of Dolly...
Houses

Houses

Fernleigh, Poplar RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdApsley Lodge, Rose MountOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdHolm Lane CottagesNunclose, Mount Pleasant < 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 – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno - SeesawThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Wellington Road Post OfficeConfectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35Boot Repairers, Prices Lane, date unknownThe old HSBC bank at the centre of the villageThe Queen’s Arms, Storeton Rd. Thomas Hughes (of...
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...