Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Village Centre, around the turn of the 19th centuryNewburns Lane. The washing hanging outside led to the local name of Dolly Tub RowDuck Pond Lane – until relatively recently there was a duck pond at the bottom near the junction with Woodchurch RoadBeresford RoadMill...
Houses

Houses

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

Commercial Premises

Confectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35Henderson’s Nursery, Village Road. An Oxton landmark from 1850 to World War II. Latterly occupied land where Talbot Court now standsTalbot Hotel, Claughton Firs....
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...