Can you give me some tips on how to get access to the archives etc of where you get your information from.
Some good reading on this site though to be honest.
I am going to try and get hold of the builder to see if he has any photos before it was demolished.
From the looks of the plans the outline of the original building is superimposed on the new layout and it covers the two properties built on the from in 2002.
Can you give me some tips on how to get access to the archives etc of where you get your information from.
I use Ancestry Worldwide, subscription required, though I'm usually chasing people not properties, it does have many directories, Electoral rolls, census, etc which is a great help. FamilySearch is free and also a useful tool. British Newspapers online, I haven't got a subscription but you can fiddle some information for free. Find My Past is similar to Ancestry and hold some different records, I sometimes take out a months subscription if needed.
If your not aware, most libraries offer access to Ancestry or FMP if you book, I think it's free.
Wirral Archives and Birkenhead library hold many records and are a brilliant source of information.
Can I ask, why the interest in Bishops House? don't answer if it's private.
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.. executive A FINE family house the wooded slopes Bidston Hill well suited to a city executive or professional man is on offer at £19750 through Ramos M c h and Company Heswall Weldon Eleanor Road Bidston sited in about one acre land is screened trees and ...
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A Conveyance dated 25 March 1895 made between (1) Robert Charles De Grey Vyner (Vendor) and (2) Thomas Nimmo Philip (Purchaser) contains covenants details of which are set out in the schedule of restrictive covenants hereto.
A Conveyance of the land in this title and other land dated 1 July 1897 made between (1) Robert Charles De Grey Vyner and (2) Thomas Dash Philip contains contains covenants.
The first census Weldon appears on is the 1901. I'm leaning towards the Bishops House Reverend John Carroll lived and died at was not Weldon. Still trying to find out when it became known as Bishops House.
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I know where you mean now opposite Bidston Court, when you look at the old map of Eleanor Road they must have been huge houses and well to do people of the time.
