History of Woolton: mansions, courts, quarries and an old school

Woolton is a very old centre of settlement in the north west. Situated in the southern part of the Liverpool today, historically it consisted of two distinct areas – Much Woolton and Little Woolton.

The entrance to the village of Woolton itself would generally have been via Out Lane, past the Woolton village cross and into the town gardens. In the medieval period this route would have taken you through small fields of mixed cultivation, with ponds dotting the landscape. The ‘great meadow’ had recently been reclaimed from the waste, and lay to the south east of the village centre.

Source: like many the townships in Liverpool, Woolton has an excellent history book written by members of the local society. These books are well researched and produced, but can be hard to get hold of.

In the case of Woolton, the book is John Lally and Janet Gnosspelius’s History of Much Woolton, published in 1975 by the Woolton Society (and reprinted in 2012). Much of the detail in this article can be found in that book, but because I concentrate on landscape history there is so much more than this to be found in its pages. If you happen to see a copy come up for sale, I urge anyone interested in Woolton’s history to pick it up.

Recommended sources

Website: https://aintreevillageparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-parish/parish-history/ The parish council's own website has loads of large images and a wealth of information on the history of Aintree.

Book: History of Much Woolton, by John E. Lally and Janet B. Gnosspelius. Hard to get hold of these days, Lally & Gnosspelius's book is a professional and detailed history of Woolton and the local area. Apparantly the precursor to a bigger study, though I've not found that follow-up.

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Woolton c.1900

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Little Woolton and Much Woolton

Woolton has the unique character in Liverpool of being split into ‘Much’ and ‘Little’ parts. Often this place name split suggests that one part is larger than the other, or even that the ‘Much’ part is on higher ground. It’s not known how Woolton gained its two names, except that Little Woolton was already a separate manor at the time of Domesday. Little Woolton was in the possession of the Stanlaw Monks in the 13th Century. Woolton village itself is in Much Woolton, and this may have been enough to gain it the name.

The road through Little Woolton leads to Liverpool via Childwall, Wavertree and Toxteth, while another runs south east to Halewood.

Field names survived until relatively recently. Dam Meadows, Dam Croft and Naylor’s Bridge all suggest the area was criss-crossed by streams which could be harnessed for industry and agriculture. Other evocative field names include Monk’s Meadow, Causeway Field, Hemp Meadow, Tanhouse Meadow, Shadows, Winamoor, and Creacre. Coxhead Farm has a name derived from Cock Shed.

Natural landscape

Woolton sits on the southern slopes of a ridge running North-West to South-East across the district. Glaciers split the ridge into two hills, and the geology is boulder clay underlying wind-blown sand, like much of Liverpool. The ridge position meant that the land here was drier than in the surrounding lowlands, and Woolton grew up on the northern side, out of the way of the prevailing winds from the south west.

The wetter land was not drained, and therefore was not used for agriculture, until the Middle Ages. There simply wasn’t the population pressure to develop this land until then.

Prehistory in Woolton

Little is known about the very early (pre)history of Woolton. It lacks the prehistoric remains like the Calderstones or Robin Hood’s stone nearby, but it does have a suspected Iron Age hill fort in the form of Camp Hill. A Victorian villa built on the site of the hill fort, on School Lane, means that very little is likely to be found out about the site through excavation.

At the time Domesday Book was compiled there was farmland enough to support eight or nine households. The value of the manor was low compared to nearby townships like Childwall, which was a parish in its own right.

In about the year 1180, John, constable of Chester, granted his lands at Woolton to the Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Knights of St John. These knights were sworn to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land, and used grants like this to raise money (via rents). They were probably not given all of Much Woolton, but had acquired it a few years later, and also had part of Little Woolton by about 1292.

It’s been suggested by Lally and Gnosspelius (1975: 9) that the Knights may have established a ‘camera’ - a centre of administration - in Woolton. This would have helped administer all the Hospitallers’ lands in south Lancashire, but whether it would have taken the form of a physical building (as survives in part in Stidd north of the Ribble) or a more abstract ‘centre’ is open to question.

The village

A survey of 1338 mentions a water mill in the village. This might have been around the site of Peck Mill house. Field names around here suggest dams on Childwall Brook (Lally & Gnosspelius, 1975: 10).

Like a lot of England, Woolton experienced hardship around the time of the Plague in the 14th century. There was also a series of bad harvests and outbreaks of ‘murrain’ (a general term for cattle and sheep diseases).

Field names from the 12th to the 14th century point to a process of bringing new land into cultivation.

  • Ofnames (1187) shows formerly marginal land newly cultivated.
  • Hadbote (c.1323) consists of short strips (‘butts’) of land taken out of heather-covered waste.
  • Merchedoles (1350) are doles in marshy or watery (and hence of lower agricultural potential) land (Lally & Gnosspelius, 1975: 12).

The 1332 poll tax return for ‘Wolveton Magna’ shows 10 men liable for paying this tax, while ‘Wolveton Parva’ had 7.

The medieval diet was generally limited to what could be grown locally. Oats, beans, peas, porridge and eggs were supplemented on rare occasions by meat.

There were two windmills standing in 1613. Only one had survived by 1900. This stood on Church Road to the north of St Peter’s, high up on the hill above Woolton village.

The site of Woolton windmill, near St Peter's Church, 1842. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Early modern Woolton

In 1608 a rental list tells us that there were 29 households and a handful of non-dwelling plots of land in the township, along with a windmill. This translates to a population of about 130. In 1658 this had risen to 39 households - about 175 people in all likelihood, plus freeholder families.

At the start of the century Woolton Cross was considered to be marking the northern end of the village, but in less than 50 years the built-up area was stretching north along Woolton Street.

The oldest known map of Woolton was made in 1613. It shows 8 town houses and areas of common land that were soon to be divided up and enclosed: Brown Hill (Woolton Hill), Birch Hill (Woolton Woods) and the waste ‘to get marle on’. (Marl is a clay-based fertiliser which was dug from pits to be spread over fields. These marl pits were likely near the present Recreation Ground and (of course!) Pit Street.)

A 1658 description of the township boundary was as follows: From Out Lane to Halewood Road leading to Gateacre, then up to the brow of the hill where there are merestones near a marl pit on the edge of Allerton township.

Ordnance survey map of Woolton, from the late 19th century
The boundary stone (circled) on the boundary of Much Woolton. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

From here, at the north end of Vale Road, the boundary follows an old watercourse across Menlove Avenue (as it now is), east of Elm Cottage. It passed a ‘nook of a close’ called Pendleton’s to the boundary of Speke, to Hillfoot Road and Hillfoot Avenue, past Mackett’s House and back to Out Lane.

It’s also known that by this time one of the township’s two post mills had fallen into disrepair.

Woolton Tunnels

There are interesting rumours about tunnels under Woolton. It’s said that they run from Woolton Hall in three directions:

  • down Watergate Lane;
  • towards a house in Woolton Street;
  • towards Ashon Square.

No one known what these tunnels might be for, though escape routes for Catholic priests after the Reformation have been proposed.

Lally and Gnosspelius (1975: 24) acknowledge that passages like these exist, but how closely they match the rumoured routes is not known, and neither is their date.

Enclosure of Woolton

In the same year that the boundaries of Woolton were set down, a new plan was made to enclose the land and consolidate holdings.

The Earl of Derby, as the greatest land owner in the area, received 40 acres; 80 acres went to freeholders and charterers (the latter seemingly meaning something similar to the former, but specific to Cheshire ). Each freeholder and charterer was given an amount in proportion to their land holdings in Much Woolton.

Interestingly, this plan was never put into action. Lally and Gnosspelius (1975: 20) put this down the the Civil War interrupting the process.

Quarries

Like many parts of Liverpool (such as West Derby [LINK]), Woolton had quarries. These produced the desirable red sandstone used for all sorts of buildings, from cottages to merchant palaces like those built on the lands of Allerton Hall (such as Allerton Priory, Allerton Tower and Springwood). One Woolton quarry supplied the stone for the Anglican Cathedral - probably one of the last customers it had before it closed. The peak of quarry use was in 19th century.

Quarry Street commemorates the presence of the quarries, with an old (and very large) quarry being at the village end, and a newer quarry at the north end. Another quarry was on Woolton Hill road, near Reynolds Park.

Coloured area on an Ordnance Survey map of Woolton, highlighting the quarry area
The large quarry on Quarry Road, Woolton. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Childwall and Woolton Waste Lands Inclosure Act (1805)

Enclosure acts needed the consent of those who held land in the area. The Gascoyne and Ashton families held enough land in Woolton to see the 1805 Act through.

New roads were laid out as part of the scheme: School Lane, Allerton Road, Church Road and Quarry Street (the latter formerly known as Delph Lane). These streets, like many during enclosure, would probably have been developed from pre-existing lanes.

Gascoyne and Ashton got the lion’s share of the redistributed land, but everyone who had a parcel had to build fences around it. This aspect of the law led to a lot of new small stone walls, some of which still survive.

Much has been written about how enclosure forced people off the land, resulting in poverty and job losses. In Woolton, James Rose’s industry and wealth grew up on the back of developments enabled by enclosure (his quarries were in great demand, for example), and so local work and jobs increased.

The people of Woolton

As the Industrial Revolution took hold, work for labourers came from the docks and railways in Garston. Navvies, stonemasons, quarrymen and carpenters were all needed. The large Woolton houses springing up would have needed builders, decorators and carpenters of their own, as well as maintenance staff.

By the turn of the 20th century, houses were being built for this workforce. The houses on Ashton Square are labourers cottages, and Castle Street had labourers’ cottages too. What stands out is the wide variety of fortunes that inhabited Woolton. There were the very richest industrialists of the Victorian era and the poorest and least healthy workers sharing the village. It was a matter of a few minutes walk to travel from back-to-backs to mansions.

Many of the smallest dwellings have been cleared now. Just under 450 people occupied 58 houses on Rose Street, while a similar number were in 88 houses on Rodick. This overcrowding was a problem that could only be solved by the wrecking ball. The vast majority of the houses on these streets today are mid-20th century or later.

Ordnance Survey map of Woolton, showing dense labourers housing
The dense housing around Rodock and Rose Streets. The worst housing has been demolished, with new houses replacing it. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

Today, Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool which has retained much of its historic character. Woolton village was never a place which stopped developing. It had been a small rural village for centuries, but during the Victorian period saw the influx of everyone from industrialists to labourers. Today it is still evolving, with new houses being built close to its centre, but it still attracts people to its parks and its historic cinema.

Woolton Street and Woolton Green

Woolton Street runs close to Woolton Hall. Its odd shape is the result of a change made by Richard Molyneux (not dissimilar to that made in West Derby, on Queens Drive). The street once ran south to Ashton Square, but before the publication of the Yates & Perry map in 1768 it had been diverted away from the Hall.

Interestingly, when Lally and Gnosspelius redrew Woolton Street along its supposed original route, it marked out an area which they suggest could have been Woolton Green, between Woolton Street and Speke Road (1975: 29).

Their argument is supported by the way buildings are oriented here. Two buildings have their gable-ends facing the ‘Green’, from outside it. Woolton Green was the name of a local fair, surviving until the 1870s.

Further Reading

Lally, John E., & Gnosspelius, Janet B., 1975, History of Much Woolton, The Woolton Society, Liverpool (Interim study in celebration of the European Architectural Heritage Year 1975

Woolton Mansions Walk http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/12/15/woolton_mansion_walk_feature.shtml (accessed 25th May 2020)

Woolton, South East Liverpool https://neam.co.uk/liverpool/woolton.html (accessed 25th May 2020)

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  • Paul Rollins

    05/10/2016 23:54:09

    My ancestor JOSEPH ALLEN (1787-17 July 1845) died in Little Woolton and was buried in Gateacre. In the 1841 Census, he was listed as living at Holt Farm. Does anyone know where that is/was?

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    • Martin

      06/16/2016 11:52:56

      Hi Paul, I can't find an exact spot for the Farm, but from what I can gather online it was in the region of Netherley Bridge, near this spot on the map. Regards, Martin

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    • Craig Parnell

      01/06/2018 20:56:56

      There is still a Holt Farm on Warrington road between Prescot and Rainhill. Also the Holt pub.

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  • Carole

    11/10/2016 19:43:04

    Hi, does anyone know anything about the history of the land where Sylvan Court now stands, ( off School Lane, woolton). Thank you

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    • Martin

      11/30/2016 19:07:19

      Hi Carol, The land which Sylvan Court now stands on was once an area covered in green houses for the nearby Woolton Hall. Whether these were for growing food or ornamental plants isn't clear from the maps, but al this land was attached to that estate. See the map here (you might need to zoom out a stage or two): https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/342428/386246/12/101394 Regards, Martin

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    • Stan Blundell

      10/21/2022 19:08:44

      That was the land known by me ,and most people in Woolton as The Orchard. A large house was built there by the last owners of Woolton Hall when they gave the Hall to the convent to use as a school. Apart from the house there was a swimming pool (outdoor), Apple and Pear Orchard end a large lawned area. It remained this way until the early 1990’s when it was sold on the death of the last owner.

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  • Lynne Forsyth

    01/17/2017 22:03:39

    Can anyone tell me if the dip/car park that was once a pond was ever a sheep dip? I think my father told me it was but I cannot find any information. Many thanks

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    • Martin

      02/05/2017 16:33:05

      Hi Lynne, On the maps that I've got access to (back to 1849) it's always marked as Lodes Pond, though that doesn't mean it couldn't have been a sheep-dip either prior to that or, unofficially, at the same time! Martin

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    • Joe Baker

      08/04/2022 16:59:07

      My mother and father were both born in Woolton Village...as a child it was always referred to as 'The Duck Pond'. My grandmother (born 1887) told me she often saw people skating on it!

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  • joshua

    04/24/2017 21:10:03

    I have recently moved into a house by school lane and have found a sandstone pillar, it has three initials chiseled on three of the four sides. One side has M.S. which is possible it could be N.S. and it has worn away, another side has G.H. on it and the other has S.H. I have tried to put the puzzle together trying to match the letters with areas around Woolton, I have even tried to find local land owners that share the same initials and also local stone masons. If anybody knows anything it would be amazing, thank you very much.

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    • Martin

      05/30/2017 16:13:00

      Hi Joshua, Is this pillar in the street? Could you post a more specific location, or a photo? Martin

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  • BARBARA MOODY

    03/06/2022 15:48:24

    My Glover ancestry all came and lived around Woolton James Glover his son John Glover then my Great Grandfather James Glover 1843 -1913 John and James Glover eventually moved to the Midlands Birmingham around 1865 All were Blacksmiths

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  • Rosemary

    03/10/2022 16:06:33

    Hi I was born in 1954 and recall a little of my grandparents house and garden from when I was very young. The house was called Mount Aventine and I believe it was in Woolton Park, I am led to believe that is was knocked down and 'new homes' built on the plot. I'm returning to Liverpool end of March 2022 I'd love to find the area of this family home that I believe is close to my first home in Lynton Green?

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    • Ange Silcock

      07/28/2025 22:16:50

      Hi, I've come across this webpage whilst researching something else. I noticed on the 1911 census that Mount Aventine was the home of Oliver Baring and his wife Phoebe. Oliver was an agent for the Baring Brothers, Bankers in Liverpool. Also visiting them was a Reginald Leigh who was a barrister and later the King's Messenger who worked at the Foreign Office, Downing Street in 1921 and in 1939. You may already know all of this or they may be your relatives! Thought it would be interesting in any event. Ange.

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  • ESME COMFORT

    05/31/2022 22:34:53

    I lived in Woolton as a child, in a house named Mount Aventine. My dad was the Canadian Trade Commissioner at the time: 1960 - 1964. Do you have any details on this property? I believe it is demolished now.

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    • Martin Greaney

      06/17/2022 11:37:59

      Hi Esme, I can't find any information on that house. Do you know roughly where it was? Regards, Martin

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    • James Walker

      01/12/2024 15:46:42

      When I was an apprentice we had a workshop at the rear of, I think the Canadian Commissioners house which was on Woolton Park

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    • Ange Silcock

      07/28/2025 22:18:42

      Hi Esme, see my message to Rosemary above re previous inhabitants of Mount Aventine.

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  • Anne-Marie Greenough

    06/19/2022 01:12:13

    Hi, my surname is Greenough and in the 1841 Little Woolton census many of my ancestors lived in Quarry Street and were mostly Stonemasons. I have recently visited Woolton and see that there is now a Greenough Street. Can anyone tell me if this Street is linked to my ancestors . I would be grateful for any information. Marie

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    • Joe Baker

      08/04/2022 17:02:27

      My mother was born in Greenough St... I have no info on the origin of the street's name. Be nice if it was linked to your family!

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    • Cathy

      07/28/2023 18:19:05

      Hi Marie I can’t really help but some of my relatives (Leek’s) lived on Greenough Street. Cathy

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  • Alison Russell

    01/15/2023 20:03:08

    Going through my fathers army papers I have come across a person called Margaret (Russell)? who lived at 36 Quarry Street, Dykehead Shotts with a date 24/4/46. Just wondering if you have any information on this person/her family or could possibly point me in the right direction. Many thanks.

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  • Alison Russell

    01/15/2023 21:34:15

    So sorry, got the wrong information, please ignore the above.

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  • Alison Russell

    01/15/2023 21:49:03

    My father lived at 15 Burnley Street, L6, he was always so sad for his mum that they had to leave the house.

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  • Catherine Mather (nee Leek)

    03/20/2023 21:06:03

    My grandfather lived at 40 & 41 Quarry Street and owned the Greengrocer’s shop called Leek’s

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  • Rod Davis

    04/21/2023 13:38:55

    I noticed the item about the tunnels from Woolton Hall and that one of them possibly led to a house in Woolton Street. My grandparents lived at no. 47 and in their cellar there was a wooden door frame which had been bricked up and as a boy in the 1940's my grandmother told me that this was the entrance to a secret passage which led to the priory in Watergate Lane. In later years we wanted to remove the bricks and see if there really was a secret passage, but we never did. I daresay that his could still be there!

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    • Stan Blundell

      09/11/2023 21:53:58

      There are many rumours about the tunnel from the hall to the priory, there was a partial collapse by the school gate (now bricked up) at the top of Manor Road , some people put this down to a possible tunnel.

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    • Beth Lloyd

      08/27/2025 23:16:59

      I was a teenager when the Priory at the bottom of Watergate was demolished, my brother and I found an entrance to a tunnel on the land before the new houses were built. It was flooded so we couldn’t explore and was filled in soon after by the builders

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    • Sue

      11/03/2025 21:21:55

      Yes those tunnels led too woolton hall I lived in the priory in the late 70s it had a cellar went down but got soooked after walking for a good 15 mins

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  • Ben Hansen

    12/28/2023 23:47:49

    Good evening all, does anyone have any information on Newstead farm on Quarry street? It’s recently been purchased and renovated by family and we are interested to find out anything we can about the history of the property.

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  • James Walker

    01/12/2024 15:49:51

    When I was an apprentice we had a workshop at the rear of, I think the Canadian Commissioners house which was on Woolton Park

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  • Saf

    03/13/2024 22:14:21

    Hi. Does anyone have any information on the history of Quarry Court Quarry street?

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  • Alison Stockwell

    02/09/2025 13:42:22

    My great-grandmother was the widow Mary Dennison who ran a laundry at her home at 41 Rodick Street. According to the 1921 census, 7 people including one infant, lived in what was presumably a small terrace.

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  • Paul

    06/20/2025 16:03:05

    Hi all…we’ve recently moved into 403 Woolton Road (also formerly known as red brick or bluebrick cottage; that’s still to be decided!). We’ve researched as much as we can and found out that it was perhaps one of the only properties on Woolton Road (opposite the black woods) over 100 years ago (cottage and farmland and the land was owned by the marquis of Salisbury). We are separate for footage, maps, pictures of anyone could point us in the right direction. We’ve already been to the archive floor in William brown street though unsuccessfully?

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  • Bede

    07/15/2025 08:01:15

    My great-great-great grandfather, Francis Robinson, owned a school, the Woolton Grove Academy, “for the Sons of the Catholic Gentry”, in Much Woolton around the 1820s. I believe the school was situated at the now demolished Woolton Heyes Manor. I wondered if anyone knew anything about this school?

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  • Michael Curtin

    08/15/2025 20:56:20

    I am a Canadian living in Ontario. My mother Sarah Margaret Foster was born and for 16 years lived at Orient House, Halewood Road, Much Woolton, Lancashire. Her mother was a domestic and her father was the Estate gardener. Her father died when she was quite young and her mother died when she was 16. She ended up working at a nearby golf course and fulfilling the role of Cinderella at two homes for two aunts. When she was 19 the aunts told her she was gong to Canada to look after a brother in law's children. She boarded the Antonio Dec. 18 1929, arrived in Halifax December 30th and boarded train and travelled to Winnipeg Manitoba - 3,487 klm or 2172 miles west - then another 85 klm or 52 miles to Portage la Prairie. I have never seen a photo nor have any history on Orient House, Halewood Road, Much Woolton, Lancashire, Anything you might be able to provide or refer me to would be greatly appreciated. To complete the story - The Sisters of Service provided assistance at Halifax Pier 21 - a major Canadian immigrant port, and provided S of S contacts in Winnipeg. My mother left the housekeeping position after a short period of time and never said why. She contacted the Sisters of Service for assistance and subsequently joined the Order. She took her first vows and served as a postulant for 3 years in Toronto. At the end of 3 years the Order had determined that she was not suitable. My mother really did not know why but told me it may have been her health or that she laughed too much. I think she laughed to much. In 1937 she met and married my father - who had emigrated from Liverpool in 1921. They raised 5 boys of which at 79 I am the youngest. But we think my lbate rother Paul, who became a priest, was her favourite!

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    • Martin Greaney

      08/21/2025 15:37:43

      Hi Michael, Thanks so much for your slice of family history - it's great to flesh out of the stories of these areas! I've not found any photos of Orient House myself, but there's a fairly detailed map here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.9&lat=53.38045&lon=-2.85966&layers=170&b=ESRIWorld&o=100. Looking at the modern aerial maps on Google, it looks like some of the original outbuildings are still there, which may be of interest to you, although the main house is gone. See this 3D aerial shot: https://maps.app.goo.gl/q4mqwLKpbbH1AXqw8 (you'll have to be logged into a Google account to see the 3D version, otherwise you'll just see the top-down version). Best wishes, Martin

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  • Kelly Glen

    09/23/2025 16:05:34

    Good Afternoon My Husbands Mother Joyce Hesketh was born in 1 Mason Street Much Woolton many years ago. Her father was Douglas Gilbert Hesketh who lived at the property until he passed aged 33, he is currently buried at St Peters. All of Douglas's family lived in Mason St at one time or another, we are wondering if any relatives still live in that area? We would be interested to know what happened to the Hesketh family and to 1 mason St. Many thanks

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  • David Helsby

    10/03/2025 10:38:46

    Hello, I hope you are still active in this line of research. My name is David Helsby and I have been researching my family line for a number of years. From 1631 through to 1798 the Helsby family has been associated with Woolton. I read in your paper , that in 1658 there where only 39 households. Do you have any reference to the Helsby family in your research. Any help would be welcome. David

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    • Martin Greaney

      10/17/2025 18:17:38

      Hi David, I'm not much of a family historian (it's all buildings, transport and streets for me) so I'm afraid I've not come across the Helsby family. If I happen to spot it in future research, as I'm always revisiting these topics, then I'll post it here. Best wishes, Martin

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  • Sue

    10/05/2025 18:17:32

    My grandparents lived in number 2 Pit Street for a few years before moving back to Garston. Can someone point me to where this street was? Thanks

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    • Martin Greaney

      10/17/2025 18:07:03

      Hi Sue, If it's Pitt Street then you can see it here on this old map of streets: https://historic-liverpool.co.uk/old-streets-liverpool/#17/53.39994/-2.98266 Best wishes, Martin

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