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#298314 6th Mar 2009 9:45pm
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Can anyone please help me with some info on Vaughan Street Birkenhead .Does any one know when the houses where built My mum was born in no,2 Vaughan street in 1944 and my dad was born in no,2 in 1945 so I know they are older than them dates so can anyone give me a date when they where built. thanks


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Vaughan Street first appeared on a map in 1899 although it was only in the proposal stage.

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Here are maps dated 1910c and 1938, there doesn't appear to be many houses in 1910, but don't read too much into the houses on these maps, unless you are plan map level (which these are not) then they are not entirely reliable.

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And that address isn't in the 1911 census


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Thanks for all your help I will keep digging.


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