I spent a lot of my early life in Brook St, my auntie lived in a 2 up 2 down with the good old outside toilet, I walked up and down it daily on my way to Cathcart St School from our house in Watson St. The pic in the link looks familiar, I think its Brook St.
I spent a lot of my early life in Brook St, my auntie lived in a 2 up 2 down with the good old outside toilet, I walked up and down it daily on my way to Cathcart St School from our house in Watson St. The pic in the link looks familiar, I think its Brook St.
Thanks for that Bert, that's very interesting, I'm going to read that link later. My Great grandparents were living there in 1907, one of their children was born there at No"387.
Do you know a chap called John Fagan,has written a book about his childhood memories in that area, titled The Other Fella, available from amazon, my mum read it and loved it,
Do you know a chap called John Fagan,has written a book about his childhood memories in that area, titled The Other Fella, available from amazon, my mum read it and loved it,
Thanks, sounds like a good book..........I've just sent for it!
I lived on the corner of Cleveland st and Vittoria st,our number was 303,as the numbers started closest to the town hall your Grand parents proberbly lived at the other end of Brook st,say from Vittoria st right up to Duke st...The street is still there but no houses left standing...From when I was a kid in the 50,s there was only about 8 or 10 houses in the part from Vittoria st to Livingstone st after that....Nothing but the Birkenhead brewery on one side and Marchbanks wood yard on the other...I think
Forgot to say,I went to school and knocked around with a lad called John Fagan, in the 60,s...Cathcart st school and Trinity st I went till I was 11 then Tolly. I'm 60 now.
I lived on the corner of Cleveland st and Vittoria st,our number was 303,as the numbers started closest to the town hall your Grand parents proberbly lived at the other end of Brook st,say from Vittoria st right up to Duke st...The street is still there but no houses left standing...From when I was a kid in the 50,s there was only about 8 or 10 houses in the part from Vittoria st to Livingstone st after that....Nothing but the Birkenhead brewery on one side and Marchbanks wood yard on the other...I think
Thanks for that spider, I have tried to find Brook st but so far haven't , maybe I'm going the wrong way! I had my first job in Lord St, going by the maps it's somewhere near there? I know the houses are no longer standing but I would just like to see were they lived!
Chris, the image below is the end of Brook St, looking from Duke St, pub on one corner, car wash on the other, don't know about the pub being open, but the car wash is still operating.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Lord Street is down the other end (Town Hall/ Hamilton Square way) of Brook st
If you have access to a computer/internet just google Brook st, Birkenhead. the road itself could have been over a mile long. Berts pic tallies with the 2nd map I posted Duke st is where Birkenhead Park station is if that helps
from 1916 street directory odd numbers go up to number 461
