Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Rose MountChristchurch RoadClaughton Firs, probably 1920’sBidston RoadVillage Centre, around the turn of the 19th centuryDuck Pond LaneKings MountFairview RoadBidston RoadPoplar RoadShrewsbury RoadBeresford RoadRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family...
Houses

Houses

Hawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdHolm Lane CottagesOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdNunclose, Mount PleasantApsley Lodge, Rose MountFernleigh, Poplar 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 - SeesawThe Arno – quoitsThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno –...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Talbot Hotel, Claughton Firs. Built between 1847 & 1875 in a curve round the bend between Rose Mount and Claughton Firs. Demolished 1967, rebuilt 1969 as Oxton ArmsSwan Hill Dairy, built 1931, employed 60 people and supplied milk to 40,000 Wirral...
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 SchoolBirkenhead School...