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Posted By: geprgie260 Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 4:55pm
Does anybody know when the houses on Norman Street were roughly built? And are some of the houses on the street older than others?
Posted By: bert1 Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 5:19pm
Norman Street, Birkenhead, does not appear in the 1906 Directory, the following are the 1910 & 1911 directories.


Attached picture 1910 norman st.JPG
Attached picture 1911 norman st.JPG
Posted By: bert1 Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 5:30pm
Directories,

1910, Numbers, 2-10
1911 " " 2-54
1916 " " 2-68
1938 " " 4-70 21-135
Posted By: geprgie260 Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 5:30pm
Thanks very much bert1. Can't access the links but at least I know that they weren't any houses in 1906.
Posted By: jimbob Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 7:58pm
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.
Posted By: bert1 Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 8:37pm
The 1923 Directory has numbers,

2-70

Left side, Mrs Asprey (Claughton Fields)
Posted By: geprgie260 Re: Norman Street - 1st Jan 2016 9:17pm
That's great information bert1. I think that by 1923 all the houses were definitely built by then.
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Norman Street - 2nd Jan 2016 1:57pm
Norman St was bombed twice in WW2 so some of the houses will probably have been rebuilt either then or later.
Posted By: geprgie260 Re: Norman Street - 2nd Jan 2016 5:22pm
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.
Posted By: diggingdeeper Re: Norman Street - 2nd Jan 2016 8:10pm
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)
Posted By: geprgie260 Re: Norman Street - 3rd Jan 2016 8:16am
Yes, I see what you mean. Thanks very much for your help and information!
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