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Posted By: derekdwc Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 11:20am
Can someone look this up in the 1881 census please
from the 1878 post office directory

Jacksons hotel, Evander Godwin, Oxton road, Birkenhead and if it has a street number
also
while looking at click I noticed there was a Wirral Hospital (children) and wondered when it disappeared
co-ordinates 331450 by 388400
Posted By: kenmo52 Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 12:18pm
The 1881 Census shows this person as a licensed victualler living at 25 Lord Street, Birkenhead (Argyle Ward)???
In brackets under the address is "Mersey Hotel" ???
Posted By: bert1 Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 12:19pm
The 1881 census has Evander Godwin having the Mersey Hotel, 25 Lord St, Birkenhead.
Posted By: bert1 Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 12:38pm
The Wirral Hospital you are referring to was at 25 Oxton Rd, 1881 census, it may have closed when the children's hospital opened in 1883.
Posted By: bert1 Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 1:25pm
Can't find Jacksons Hotel on the 1881 census.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 2:18pm
The original Wirral Children's Hospital was established in what had originally been a private house at 25 Oxton Road. It closed in June 1883 after the new Children's Hospital in Woodchurch Road was opened by the Duke of Westminster, and was subsequently sold for £1,075. To judge from later maps it looks as though the house was converted into business premises in the usual way, by building a new extension onto the front, but was later demolished to make way for Rostances store.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 3:51pm
Originally Posted by marty99fred
The original Wirral Children's Hospital was established in what had originally been a private house at 25 Oxton Road. It closed in June 1883 after the new Children's Hospital in Woodchurch Road was opened by the Duke of Westminster, and was subsequently sold for £1,075. To judge from later maps it looks as though the house was converted into business premises in the usual way, by building a new extension onto the front, but was later demolished to make way for Rostances store.
Whoops, my mistake! No 25 wasn't where Rostances was later built, but on the next block up, where the Casino is now.

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Posted By: chriskay Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 20th Jun 2012 4:03pm
I've got a feeling that's where Morton's bookshop was.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: Oxton Road number of building query + - 21st Jun 2012 12:28pm
According to Gore's/Kelly's and the surviving Licence Registers Evander Godwin was licencee of the Vale Hotel at 103 Oxton Road until September 1880.
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