Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Templemore Road, early 1980’sDuck pond on Fred Adams’ poultry farm opposite the Halfway HouseRose MountRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresDuck Pond LaneClaughton FirsBidston RoadKings...
Houses

Houses

Hawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdWestholme, Storeton RdHolm Lane CottagesFernleigh, Poplar 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 ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno – quoitsThe ArnoThe Arno - SeesawThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Wellington Road shops 1927. There was a draper, butcher, grocer, cycle dealer, fruiterer, chemist, confectioner, florist and dairymanWilliam Male & SonsAdams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsConfectioner’s,...
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...