Tobin Street - 13th Jul 2011 3:04pm
Hi does anyone know what was in Tobin Street opposite the old wood yard? There are a small row of houses there now, but what whas there before them? Any answers?? Jess 
Re: Tobin Street - 13th Jul 2011 3:14pm
If you put "tobin" in the WikiWirral search box there are a few topics relating.
Could you give a house number for one of the houses on the plot, just to give people a guide where you are looking, I presume this is the Egremont/Seacombe/Wallasey Tobin Street?
Could you give a house number for one of the houses on the plot, just to give people a guide where you are looking, I presume this is the Egremont/Seacombe/Wallasey Tobin Street?
Re: Tobin Street - 14th Jul 2011 11:02am
Hi, sorry I should have gone into it a bit more!! There are only about 7 houses in the street now, (which is in Egremont), and they are not quite sequential in their numbering. May be something to do with the possibility at the planning stage for more properties than was eventually built. These houses have only been up since about 1978, so fairly recent. I am trying to find info or photos of what was there prior to the houses being built,we know there was a wood yard opposite, can anyone help? Thanks Jess
Re: Tobin Street - 14th Jul 2011 11:34am
On the corner of Tobin st and Wright st used to be a company called Dodds Shopfitting, I think it disappeared in the early seventies
Dave
Dave
Re: Tobin Street - 14th Jul 2011 1:22pm
Hi thanks for that! Regards Jess
Re: Tobin Street - 17th Jul 2011 5:47pm
On the same side as the wood yard there
was a workshop which made neon advertising
lights.
was a workshop which made neon advertising
lights.
Re: Tobin Street - 17th Jul 2011 6:56pm
Originally Posted by Wally1
On the same side as the wood yard there
was a workshop which made neon advertising
lights.
was a workshop which made neon advertising
lights.
Was it "Bells"? A mate of mine worked there, then they moved to King St.
Re: Tobin Street - 18th Jul 2011 9:17am
Don't know the name but they used to have
signs lit in the shop as they were making them.
That was not "End away" was it - he was a
glass blower.
signs lit in the shop as they were making them.
That was not "End away" was it - he was a
glass blower.
Re: Tobin Street - 18th Jul 2011 10:15am
Originally Posted by Wally1
Don't know the name but they used to have
signs lit in the shop as they were making them.
That was not "End away" was it - he was a
glass blower.
signs lit in the shop as they were making them.
That was not "End away" was it - he was a
glass blower.
No mate, Eric someone who became a TV engineer. "Endaway" is still doing his thing from home though!
Re: Tobin Street - 18th Jul 2011 3:31pm
I don't think there ever was much along that side of the road before the modern houses were built. Here's the OS map of the area from 1909; all of the later editions look pretty much the same, with the addition of an odd outbuilding or two. Apart from the Midland Bank at the top at No.1, the only other property listed in the directories is No.5, the yard on the corner of Wright Street. This was occupied by R T Astle, wringing machine repairer, in 1911, and by a plumber named Robert Pemberton in the 1930s.
Re: Tobin Street - 19th Jul 2011 8:38am
Hi thank you very much for the info!! My mum has just bought one of the houses on the top and wanted to know what had been there previously. She can rememeber as a little girl hiding under the privt hedge that used to hang really low to the ground at the bottom of Tobin Street, so there must have been something there at one stage, again thank you, Jess