Old Photos Of Where You Live
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….Lodge Lane;
….July 1936, Strawberry Fields Children’s Home was opened in Woolton by the Salvation Army following a £30k donation from Mary Fowler;
…..1902 Afgan St;
sbbefc
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I didn't want to start a new post and this one seems to be the most relevant and active.
Basically I've been down the Ancestry rabbit hole since I received the DNA kit 18 months ago. I managed to find a lot of information about my great grandfather who was born in Frodsham but grew up in Wavertree until he was about 10 (not sure exactly just going off census data). Then moved to Rock Ferry.
He was upper middle class and his father was a doctor. I've found an account written by his wife. He ended up with a managerial role in the Liverpool Tin Canister works. I'm just curious to find out where this was. It's described as being located 'Everton way' which could literally be anywhere between the city centre and Everton. I've searched maps from 1890s but couldn't find it. As you'd expect there is a lot of industry dotted about, saw mills, foundaries, breweries etc but no sign of this place. Just wondering if there's any historians out there that might know where it might have been located.
He didn't particularly like his time there and wrote of the horrible working conditions. He was a Quaker, Fabian and later a conscientious objector. Also an Evertonian, the reason I support Everton today.
Basically I've been down the Ancestry rabbit hole since I received the DNA kit 18 months ago. I managed to find a lot of information about my great grandfather who was born in Frodsham but grew up in Wavertree until he was about 10 (not sure exactly just going off census data). Then moved to Rock Ferry.
He was upper middle class and his father was a doctor. I've found an account written by his wife. He ended up with a managerial role in the Liverpool Tin Canister works. I'm just curious to find out where this was. It's described as being located 'Everton way' which could literally be anywhere between the city centre and Everton. I've searched maps from 1890s but couldn't find it. As you'd expect there is a lot of industry dotted about, saw mills, foundaries, breweries etc but no sign of this place. Just wondering if there's any historians out there that might know where it might have been located.
He didn't particularly like his time there and wrote of the horrible working conditions. He was a Quaker, Fabian and later a conscientious objector. Also an Evertonian, the reason I support Everton today.
wgtwiddle
Player Valuation: £750k
sbbefc
Player Valuation: £30m
AHH yes. Quite possibly I'll have a look. I had googling but didn't find anything. Thanks!
….when even street lighting mattered;
…I’d think @wgtwiddle could be right, the Liverpool Tin Cannister Co might well be former name of Metal Box which was also in Breeze Lane, around the site of Walton Hospital (which aligns with your great Grandfather saying ‘Everton Way’):
A view from Dingle look SE past Otterspool to Garston.
Painted about 1890
Painted about 1890
sbbefc
Player Valuation: £30m
Thanks so much for this! Definitely makes a lot sense.
….12th July, always associated with Orange Lodge parades when I was a youngster growing up in Everton, seems much less of an occasion these days;
….one with our tower in the background;
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Great childhood memories in the late 50s at New Brighton. A few tiny river crabs in a lemo bottle half full of super toxic Mersey water. Heaven!
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