Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Rose MountBidston RoadFairclough Lane -aerial photo taken 1920 showing Fairclough Lane, end of Glenmore Road and Rose CottageRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresClaughton Firs, 1930’s. The...
Houses

Houses

Westholme, Storeton RdOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdApsley Lodge, Rose MountHolm Lane CottagesFernleigh, Poplar 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 Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – quoitsThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Boot Repairers, Prices Lane, date unknownWellington Road shops 1927. There was a draper, butcher, grocer, cycle dealer, fruiterer, chemist, confectioner, florist and dairymanTalbot Hotel, Claughton Firs. Built between 1847 & 1875 in a curve round the bend between...
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...
Schools

Schools

Birkenhead School Birkenhead Proprietary School, later Birkenhead School, was founded in 1860, initially with 13 pupils, at Royden House, Park Road North, altering its name in 1871, when it moved to the present Shrewsbury Road site. Birkenhead School – The...