More on the Taylors and Taylor's Villas Looks like these were a lot to do with Thomas Taylor and possible brother Joseph the Grocer.
!n the 1874 Morris Directory, there is a Joseph Taylor at The Poplars, Park Grove, Tranmere, as gentry, and AND JOSEPH Taylor, Grocer, I Taylor's Terrace Borough Road in the Commercial section. Comparing that to the 1881 census, Joseph Taylor is at 316 and 318 Borough Road, seems to indicate they are the same address although it has Thomas Taylor Ship carpenter at 1 Taylors Villas. Curious!!
Regarding the small terrace of houses on the opposite side of Borough Road to the library. We used to call them Taylors Villas, but it seems that Taylors Villas are where the Greek Taverna is, and the terrace is correctly called Taylor's Terrace, as Bert points out. Photographs seem few and far between, but I recently came across this one - taken on the day that the King and Queen opened the Mersey Tunnel and went on to open the new Birkenhead Library. The terrace is slightly set back from the pavement, as they had a few feet of land in front of the house and separated from the pavement by a picket fence.
