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#682574 6th Apr 2012 3:42pm
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Has anybody got, or could direct me to a photograph of Woodburn Dacre Hill, which according to the maps disappeared some time between 1913 and 1928?

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This was the home of the Allardyce family. I have seen 2 photos in local books
which may be of interest. One shows Mr.Allardyce sitting in a chair. He has a dressing gown or similar garment on and is wearing a sort of " bobble hat" type
thing-like Wee Willie Winky in the nursery rhyme. Room looks full of clutter.
Second pic I recall shows house with garden in front as approached from Kings
Lane. Would need to do some more searching to find these again amongst my
Local History stuff. Pretty sure that one or both of these pics featured in an
article in The Wirral Champion written by Bill Fairs.

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This is intresting,as not much history on Dacre hill.old shops mainly. some of the big bulidings still remain.

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Hope this helps.

Go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=332520,385700 and you can see Woodburn on the 1912 1:2500 map.
It is not there now.

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Just found this in relation to the family Allardyce,
1913
ALLARDICE David William of Liverpool and of Woodburn Dacre-hill Rock Ferry,
Cheshire, merchant died 21 June 1913 at Woodburn. Probate Chester 27 October to
Alice Allardice widow, George Riddell Allardice, merchant, William Ritchie
Henderson, gentleman and Frank Victor Parker, bookkeeper. Effects £84267 17s 5d.


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Also found this reference his wife Alice,
1923
ALLARDICE Alice of Woodburn, Old Chester Road, Rock Ferry, widow died 22 March
1923. Probate London 25 June to Norman MacCulloch Allardice, merchant. Effects
£16657 12s 5d


Good luck searching, hope this info helps


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Thanks everyone. Littlestan - it would be helpful if you could find the pics (and the article?) some time. Lightning - it also appears on the 1913 map, seems some time after that that the estate was given over to housing with roads named after it. Finney, I'd got his will but not Alice's, thanks.Max

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Originally Posted by Finney
Just found this in relation to the family Allardyce,
1913
ALLARDICE David William of Liverpool and of Woodburn Dacre-hill Rock Ferry,
Cheshire, merchant died 21 June 1913 at Woodburn. Probate Chester 27 October to
Alice Allardice widow, George Riddell Allardice, merchant, William Ritchie
Henderson, gentleman and Frank Victor Parker, bookkeeper. Effects £84267 17s 5d.



The following is taken from 'Liverpool's Legion of Honour' published in 1893:

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ALLARDICE (DAVID W.), of Woodburn, Dacre-Hill, Rock Ferry, is a director of the Pacific Loan and Investment Company, and a partner in the firm of Cockbain, Allardice & Co., South American merchants, James-street, Liverpool.

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Thanks Littlestan. I've been able to tie him down fairly well, it is the pics and the article you mentioned that seem most interesting.


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