Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Can anyone tell me whether 1 Rosebank Road Huyton was residential or a caring establishment in 1939 or around that time? Looking at Google all the houses have been demolished there's green-space where the houses stood. I don't know whether this family were re-housed to this address because of poor housing conditions/illness, the father was a dock labourer, or if they were receiving care. The son died at 1 Rosebank Road, the father died at Hefferston Grange Sanatorium of Tuberculosis and the mother died at Walton Hospital. All three of them died in the same year 1939. A surviving daughter was raised by relatives.

Blue

Hi Blue
In Gores/Kellys 1938
I can only find Rose Bank Rd in Childwall/Wavertree.
Nothing for Huyton.

Hefferston Grange TB Sanatorium was at Weaverham Ches.

Tina

Hefferston Grange is already the subject of another topic.
http://liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/phpBB ... hp?t=10693

Thanks Tina and Mary. Yes I posted a separate query about Hefferston Grange under Warrington the borough responsible for the institution. The area of Huyton where 1 Rosebank Road was situated looks like residential housing probably built in the 1920s or 1930s.

Blue

My 1930s road atlas of south Lancs has no Rose Bank, either one word or two, for Huyton. Can you give more about its location?
Daggers

Hi daggers

The road is still on Google see the link below. Number 1 would have been at the bottom of the road on the left hand side:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?rlz=1T4RN ... CBoQ8gEwAA

The houses came down because they were hard to let and it was a problem road:-

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LAST+FAMI ... 0108255629


Blue

There are two Rose Bank Roads in my present day map book. One in Childwall and one in Huyton.

I'd contact Huyton library and ask if they can tell you when there were houses in Rosebank Road and when they were built. You could also try directories there or in Liverpool to see if the roads are there in 1939.

The houses were built in the 1930s:-

"In 1932 Liverpool City Council purchased a large area of the Earl of Derby's Knowsley estate. Thereafter, throughout the 1930s, the city built four large housing estates in the north-west of Huyton-with-Roby. These Liverpool Overspill housing estates were Fincham, Huyton Farm, Longview and Woolfall Heath."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huyton


Blue

My map is clearly too early - it shows mostly undeveloped land in that area.
D

The World War 2 Internment Camp at Huyton was just down the road:-

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/medi ... spx?id=370


Blue

number 1 rosebank road was a normal two bed council house i lived at 37 from 1943 the family I remeber in no 1 were called Barclay but not sure on the spelling of the surname.

Thanks Freddy. The name of this family was Holland I think they were moved there from the Burlington Street area. The husband, wife and son all died in 1939 and the surviving daughter was raised by relatives. The Barclays probably got the house after the Hollands.

Blue

Hi, Freddy,
I had relatives living in Rosebank Road,
The name was Doyle I have lost touch with them over the years, I think they lived at Number 35.
I and my brothers spent a lot of time over there in the 1940/50s
regards John