A shop in Walton, L4 in the 1940's

[lost_in_space]

Hi everybody!

I'm a total newbie to genealogy, but here goes... there was a shop on/off City Road, Walton around 1940. It was owned by Joe Wilkes/Wilks? My mum, Winifred 'Winnie' Hampson, left school at 14 and started work there. Can anybody give me any info about the shop at all? Some of my mum's friends from the local area were: Gertie (Gertrude) Newbold, Sydney Wynne, Rosemary Wilson, and the Pye sisters - Betty & Sylvia.

Many thanks!

[MaryA]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Presumably the Wilk(e)s didn't live "over the shop" as nobody of that name appears in City Road in the 1939 Register.

Still browsing through the 1938 Kellys directory and if I come across anything I'll post again.

Added - no Wilkes listed in City Road, possibly misremembered the name? there is a Wilcoxson Rt. at Number 26, a grocer?

[MaryA]

This is the list of Wilkes in the 1938 Kellys directory.

[MaryA]

We have a "Getting Started Guide" for new family historians you might find useful, link on our Society page here https://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/

[lost_in_space]

Thanks, Mary. Wilcoxson could be a possibility, 'Wilkes/Wilks' may have been a nickname/shortened version. I don't know if the shop was a grocer's or not, it's certainly a possibility. My mum lived in Nimrod Street. Thanks for the info on 'getting started'.

[Blue70]

1939 Register - Free Address Search Previews

(Residents only)

City Road

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/address ... 6f759c1237


Nimrod Street

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/address ... df2e2cbce7



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[lost_in_space]

1939 Register - Free Address Search Previews

(Residents only)

City Road

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/address ... 6f759c1237


Nimrod Street

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/address ... df2e2cbce7



Blue

MANY THANKS!