Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Templemore Road, early 1980’sPoplar RoadShrewsbury RoadRose MountFairclough Lane -aerial photo taken 1920 showing Fairclough Lane, end of Glenmore Road and Rose CottageBidston RoadDuck Pond LaneVillage Centre, around the turn of the 19th centuryBidston...
Houses

Houses

Nunclose, Mount PleasantApsley Lodge, Rose MountFernleigh, Poplar RdWestholme, Storeton RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdHolm Lane Cottages < 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 Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe Arno – quoitsThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe Arno -...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Henderson’s Nursery, Village Road. An Oxton landmark from 1850 to World War II. Latterly occupied land where Talbot Court now standsConfectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35William Male & SonsSaid to be...
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 School...