can anyone help me out with the history of Beaconsfield hall in new ferry please, its the building that is now "andys aqautics"

i believe it was used temperance billiard hall

thanks

jsbber

it used to be the dole office before it was andys aqautics

thx sue but im trying to go back beyond that lol

sorry jabber, i only go as far as the dole office lol

i've read somewere that it was the first picture house in new ferry,
i remember it being the dole office too.

I live on Beaconsfield Rd. Sounds interesting.

Don't think it was ever a picture house don't remember it being a dole office either must have been before my time

in the 1970s it was a dole office, i remember signing on there,untill they opened another one were the bed centre is now[next to the post office new chester rd] then they closed that and it went to bromborough.
and i'm sure it was a picture house first, sure i read it somewere?

I am certain that the building was purpose-built as a Labour Exchange. I worked there as a Civil Servant for the Dept.of Employment. I also worked in the offices
at Bridge St, Birkenhead and Wilkinson St. Elles.Port . If you know those 2 bldgs
you will realise they were built to a similar design.
Some confusion may have arisen cos on old O.S. Maps the buiding later
called Hesketh Hall was noted as Education Institute.This actual wording on the
Map was placed on the site of the later Labour Exchange .I have copy of O.S.map
of 1909 or 1912 showing this. The building Hesketh Hall therefore started off
for recreational and educational use PROR TO Ist World War and PRIOR To the
formation of Royal British Legion in 1920,s. Maps can be confusing sometimes !

Hesketh Hall is opposite Andys Aquatics, it's the building that Andys Aquatics is in now that was the dole office many years ago.

I remember the dole office being were the bed shop is i also remember the post office being the bus depo.

I used to work in bridge street dole office as a cleaner

Just asked my mum about this, she's New Ferry born and bred.

It was a Methodist Church before the dole took it over.

where abouts was she born/bred

My mum also said that she doesn't remember it being a temperance billiard hall.

Though St Mark's church hall in Grove Street became one she thinks.

the methodist church was next to it, were the flats are now.

The 1936 OS map shows it as being a "Billiards Hall" - seek it out on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html where you can see different maps from different times through the 19th and 20th centuries. Just type your postcode into the search engine and look at and click on the maps to the right. Use the "enhanced view" to see real details close up.

I too, had read that it was allegedly built as a picture house (I think in one of the books by the late Dave Mitchell) but I have been unable to find the quote.

According to my gran it was used as a communal kitchen type place during the war

just spoke to her, she said it was a dole office before the war time communal kitchen. also got some history about the garage the other end of Beaconsfield. Before my grandad owned it (Fleet Motors / later his son Len / Fleet Autos) it was a company that sandblasted leather, and before that a brick works.

1938 Directory,

By coincidence as well as the Methodist Chapel on the corner of Beaconsfield Road and Mayfields North, New Ferry. There was also a Methodist Chapel on a different Beaconsfield Road and Peel Street, Rock Ferry, both those roads have now gone.

Slight correction, the junction of Beaconsfield Road and Peel Street is in Lower Tranmere not Rock Ferry. Rock Ferry starts at the other end of Peel Street where it runs into St Pauls Road. Born and bred in Peel Street Lower Tranmere in the 1940s

I should have realised that it isn't normally classed as Rock Ferry, I virtually lived down by Union Street for a year.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes