I don't think there were any houses on Rose Brae, one side had sheds for the Iron Works and the other was the end of the gardens from the properties on Church St.
Gym was the Shaftesbury Boys Club
Now why did I not realise that, that they wouldn't be houses duh!!
And I never in a million years expected you to tell me the was the Shaftesbury Boys Club, thanks for that DD
Administrative history: Founded by William Arthur Norrish as the "Shaftsbury Street Boys Club", later the "Shaftsbury Club for Street Boys and Working Lads" (until 1914). Opened in January 1886 in rooms leased from the Chester Street Mission Sunday School; the club later moved to a former Baptist chapel in Jackson Street, and in 1911 to purpose-built premises between Jackson Street and Thomas Street. New club headquarters were opened in Mendip Road, Prenton, in 1971. The Official History is: "The Shafties" by C.L. Bibby (1974). The majority of the present records were deposited at the Merseyside County Archives in May 1978 (Acc. 1978-15, Class D/SB), but were transferred to the Wirral Archives Service in January 1987
I don't think there were any houses on Rose Brae, one side had sheds for the Iron Works and the other was the end of the gardens from the properties on Church St.
At least one house in Rose Brae was domestic. My school mate, Brian, lived there and I think his Dad was some kind of security for the yard. I'm refering to the 1950s and I think there was a gate across adjacent to the house. Looking down from the house windows on the dock side there was a huge drop to the level of the bottom of the dock! I thought it was No.1 Rose Brae and this may well have been the Adelphi Hotel, being quite large. Would it have been the last of the properties on that side of the road to have remained after the shipyard development? Bri
Thanks for posting this. I've seen this picture a few times before but without the caption underneath. When I saw it without the caption I had difficulty believing that it was of Birkenhead because of that large hotel on the right. If the shipyard is Clovers which it appears that it is then the hotel looks to be about where the Woodside Hotel would be but it clearly isn't the Woodside Hotel. It's also not the Birkenhead Hotel in Mersey Street which would have been to the left of the picture. Anybody know what hotel it could have been? A hotel that size doesn't appear on any old maps of the area that I have except for one that shows an Adelphi Hotel cnr Rosebrae, Chester Street. Would that be the Hotel in the picture? Incidentally I visited Birkenhead recently and was very disappointed to find that the Woodside Hotel is now a car park.
Can you tell me where the framed picture you have posted is actually hanging?
There's more info about the picture here and here. It was printed in 1857 to celebrate the official opening of Laird's new shipyard at Monks' Ferry, and shows the Monks' Ferry Hotel at right.
