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#996734 1st Jan 2016 5:55pm
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Does anybody know when the houses on Norman Street were roughly built? And are some of the houses on the street older than others?

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Norman Street, Birkenhead, does not appear in the 1906 Directory, the following are the 1910 & 1911 directories.

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Directories,

1910, Numbers, 2-10
1911 " " 2-54
1916 " " 2-68
1938 " " 4-70 21-135


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Thanks very much bert1. Can't access the links but at least I know that they weren't any houses in 1906.

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On the 1909 old ordnance survey map it shows that Norman Street has got the outlines of all the terrace houses, which normally means they where built by that year.


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The 1923 Directory has numbers,

2-70

Left side, Mrs Asprey (Claughton Fields)


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That's great information bert1. I think that by 1923 all the houses were definitely built by then.

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Norman St was bombed twice in WW2 so some of the houses will probably have been rebuilt either then or later.


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That's very interesting that it was bombed twice during WW2. I noticed that the styles of the houses are different too. I wonder if that's by design or because of the bombing.

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If you look at Clifford St and Kingsley St the areas that were flattened there are quite distinct.

The cinema at the end was badly damaged and demolished (The Avenue - now called the Open Arms or something)


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Yes, I see what you mean. Thanks very much for your help and information!


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