by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
Shrewsbury RoadVillage Centre, around the turn of the 19th centuryChristchurch RoadAlton RoadDuck Pond Lane – until relatively recently there was a duck pond at the bottom near the junction with Woodchurch RoadFairview RoadRose MountClaughton Firs, probably...
by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
Nunclose, Mount PleasantHolm Lane CottagesOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdHawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdApsley Lodge, Rose MountFernleigh, Poplar Rd < Back to Main Images...
by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
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 - SeesawThe ArnoThe Arno – SundialThe Arno – quoitsThe Arno – Rose GardenThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno –...
by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
Swan Hotel, Holm Lane. A beerhouse was run here from 1864 by Hugh Swan and then by his wife Betty to the 1880’sConfectioner’s, 37 Rose Mount, owned by the Peever family from 1914. They also owned a dairy at no. 35Swan Hill Dairy, built 1931, employed 60 people and...
by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
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...
by heritadmin448 | Apr 17, 2018 | Images of Old Oxton
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...
