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Hello

I was wondering if anyone knows where 14 Upper Cross Street, Wavertree is / was. I cant find it anywhere.

My Grandma was born there in 1914 and i would like to know where about it is.

If anyone can help that would be great.

Cheers

Vix

Hi and welcome to the forum.
I don't have a map of that area but when I googled it I discovered that the Online Parish Clerk Project had transcribed some baptisms for St Bridget's and some of them gave the abode of the family.

Top Cross Street was described as being between Alfred St + Cambridge St.

I'm assuming that Alfred Street has long gone as well as Cross Street, but Cambridge Street is still there, in between Oxford Street and Myrtle Street.

If I'm wrong one of our other forum members will soon set me right.

My 1930s 'Authentic Map Directory of South Lancs' shows Upper Cross St as very short, between Cambridge and Alfred Streets, parallel with Picton Road, and opposite Combermere St.
D

Brilliant thank you.

I will google it now.

Hi Little-Vix
Here is a link to an Old Ordnance Survey Map.
Your grandma was born in the Gas Works end of Wavertree.
If you move around on the map you will see millions of railway lines leading to Edge Hill Station.

Kind regards
Tina
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapshe ... =344&y=289

Lived in number 18 from about 1945 to 1949. Only seven or eight when I left. The houses were basic. No electricity...coal fire and gas lighting. The gas works at the end of upper cross street seemed like a giant to me. Must have been quite unhealthy as it burnt coal and produced coke and gas. I guess your grandmas family would have moved on by this time but I only remember one other family and they were on the oppoisite side so would have been odd numbers. I had been looking for the street on Google but it must have long since gone. Found it on a 1928 map when it was called Cross Street.

Regards.

Hi and welcome to the forum. It's so good to get somebody's memories of the area they lived, you've described it well, thank you.

Hi Johnblue
Memories are so important to our searches and I thank you for yours.
A warm welcome to our forum.
The post has been dormant for a while.
Thank you for livening it up..

Tina