EAW029291 ENGLAND (1950). Devonshire Park and Oxton, Birkenhead, from the north-east, 1950

The Royal

Mere Farm

Top of Holt Hill

Originally 5 Osborn Terrace, (now 144 Woodchurch Road) built at around 1838 prior to Woodchurch road have a name, it and its the 4 tall terraces overlook a somewhat empty 'Happy Valley' as it was known at the time.

Holm Lane

Holy Cross Church and adjoining school. The only surviving remnants of the original Woodchurch Village.

The Co-operative clothing factory and industrial laundry. Now an Asda supermarket. To the right are the first stages of construction of the Woodchurch Estate.

Site of Arrowe Park Hospital

Site of the original Caernarvon Castle Pub after it had been destroyed by a German bomb in 1941, and prior to the building and opening of the current Caernarvon Castle Pub in 1957.

St Saviour's Church Oxton

The Queens Arms Pub

Landican Cemetry

Arrowe Park Hotel

Percy Beers nursery. Became house development in the early sixties

The Grove, large house bombed and destroyed

Frodsham/Marquis street ventilation shaft for the Tranmere deep air raid shelters.

Palm Grove tram sheds, Claughton, Birkenhead

Christ Church, Claughton, a few years later it would become Christ Church and St Michaels after the 1958 amalgamation and eventual 1960 closure of St Michaels and All Angels.

Singleton Avenue electricity sub-station, one of the last to change to AC in the country.

Strip of land left vacant for prospective extension to the Mersey Railway towards Prenton.

Plaza Theatre (aka Plaza Cinema), Birkenhead, opened 1930, closed 1973 and demolished 2001

Woodchurch Road Primary School

Monkey Steps, Tranmere

Prenton Lane

Broxton Avenue

Northwood Road

Bidston to Wrexham train line

Bramwell Avenue

Halfway House Pub.

Woodchurch Road

Waterpark Road

Holly Grove

Mersey Park

Village Road

Claughton Firs

Bennett's Hill

Adelaide Road

Woodchurch Lane

Parachute mine near corner of Laurel Road and Milton Road. Boy killed. Houses demolished and replaced with prefabs.

Extensive bomb damage in Brattan Road/Balls Road East area

Birkenhead Union Workhouse built 1861. Workhouse Hospital added 1866. Became Birkenhead Municipal Hospital 1911. Then St Catherine's Hospital. Old builings demolished 2010/12.

Birkenhead Tech College being built

Tranmere Rovers

Singleton Ave

Elmswood Road