HALEWOOD ROAD

(On the opposite side of Halewood Road, note the old gateposts on which are the words "Little Woolton" on the left, "Much Woolton" on the right - these mark the lengths of road which were kept in repair by the L.W.L.B. and the M.W.L.B.)

ELM HOUSE was demolished some years ago (there are now 8 town houses on the site). We have a photograph of it in our exhibition - kindly lent by Mrs Hughes, the last owner -which shows a double-fronted Georgian stuccoed house with a stone cornice at the front and a second floor round headed window in the gable end. This was the kind of house that was being built in Gateacre between 1810 and 1845, and we know that in 1845 it was owned by the trustees of the late John Bibby. Baines' History of Lancashire (1825) shows him as a soap boiler with his works in Edgar Street, off Scotland Road, and in 1805-13 he was allowed to enclose about one-quarter of an acre on the Halewood Road frontage here in a tidying up of this side of the highway.

ST GREGORY'S: - a semidetached pair of houses of red pressed brick, were built for Mrs French in 1883. The plans were passed by the L.W.L.B. in February, but by December the surveyor was reporting that Mrs French had built one of her new houses over the old stone drain, though he had stressed that she must not do so! To be able to pin-point the date of the building is most instructive in considering the materials and design features it displays, typical of its date, used here in our area.

HOLLYMEAD was demolished some years ago (and there are now 5 town houses on the site). We have not yet found a photograph, but the house was there by 1845 and is associated with Kingsley through the deeds, and we suggest that it was of a similar Georgian type, possibly built at a rather later date than Kingsley.

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