Roads & Streets

Roads & Streets

Rose MountDuck Pond LaneMill HillSwan HillBeresford RoadChristchurch RoadShrewsbury RoadRose Mount, 1908, showing the premises of Wilsons, family butcher, Rowlands, fishmonger, and Landers, Oxton StoresRose MountChristchurch RoadBirch RoadClaughton Firs, probably...
Houses

Houses

Hawthorn Cottage, Woodchurch RdHolm Lane CottagesNunclose, Mount PleasantOxton Old Hall, Talbot RdWestholme, Storeton RdFernleigh, Poplar RdApsley Lodge, Rose Mount < 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 Arno - SeesawThe Arno – SundialThe Arno – SundialThe ArnoThe ArnoThe ArnoThe Arno – Rose GardenThe Arno –...
Commercial Premises

Commercial Premises

Adams’ Butchers, 10 Claughton Firs. The business was started here c. 1909 by George Henry AdamsTalbot 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...
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 – Chapel...