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52 BEBINGTON. CHESHIRE. [KELLy'S
features and the traces they afford of long extinct races
of animals, especially the tracks of the cheil'otherium: impressions
have been met with probably produced by the
crawling or walking of tortoises, crocodiles, lizards, and
of the rhynchosaurus, a creature with the body of eo
reptile and the beak and feet of a bird. The Misses
King and Major J. C. Orred, of Lavant House, Chichester.
are chief landowners. 'fhe soil is principally clay on
stone, and the chief crops are wheat. The area is 944
acres of land, 62 of foreshore; rateable v-a.lue. £7,62);
the population in 1901 was 1.540 in the Urban District.
STORETO~ is a township in this parish. Divine- service
is held in the school room here by the clergy of the
parish of Lower Bebington every Sunday afternoon. Sir
Thomas Brocklebank bart. of Springwood, Allerton, Liverpool,
is lord of the manor and the principal landowner.
The area is 1,285 acres; rateable value, £2,212; the population
in 1901 was 263.
Letters through Birkenhead via Bebington
Bai1way Station (Wrexharn, Mold & Oonnah's Quay),
James D'Ombraine, station master
POULTON-CUM-SPIT.1L (commonly caner! Spital) is a
township and station on the London and :N()l'th 'We-stern
and Great "Vt'stern Joint railway, atlout 4 mIles south
from Dirkenhead, in the parish of Bebington: the railw-ay
station is at Spital, which is a pr·etty village. 'fhomal1
Green esq. of Poulton. is lord of the manor and principal
:landowner. The area us 79 acres; assessable value,
£3,572; the population in 1901 was 487, includinl! the
officers and inmates of the Wirrul worklltlllse and the
Wirral Joint Hospital
Letter Box at Spital cle,ared at 9 a.m. & J., 3.30, 6.15 &
7.45 p.m.; sundays, 5 p.m
Letter Box at Station cleared at 9 a.m. & 3· 15 & 7 p.m
Uailway Station, Spital (L. & N. W. R. ,& G. 'V. R. joint
line), John 'Valter Jones, station master
Wirral Union 'Workhouse, John Edwin Sumne:r Olive, Birkenhead,
clerk of the union; Rev. Allen G. Glenn B.A.
vticar of Barnston, chaplain; John B. Yeoman M.D.
medical officer; William L. Richards, master; Mrs.
Mary E. Richards, mabron
URBAJ.~ DISTRICT COUNCIDS.
Lower Babington.
Meets at Council Ofiice;;, Pennant house, Bebington
Village, on first tues. in each mont.h at 7.30 p.m.
Members.
Chairman, W. H. Lever.
Bebington Ward.
Retire April
Retire April
C. Platt 1903 C. S. Pain oo 1904
William Norman
W. Delamore
1903
1904
G. F. Bird
F. A. Hough
1905
1905
New Ferry Ward.
Retire April I
Retire April
H. G. Martin 19031 J. R. Thompson 1905
G. Robinson 19°4,
Park Ward.
Retire AprilI
Retire April
~ B. Stott
. Peel
1903 J. Delamore
1904 .
1905
Pool Bank Ward.
Retire April
J. H. Williams 1903
M. Harrison 1904
Sunlight Ward.
Retire AprilI
Retire April
A. Hughes 1903 J. A. Gordon 1905
T. t'aulkner 1904
Officials.
Clprk, Thomas Sproat, 5 Oastle street, Liverpool &; 14
Rock park, Rock Ferry
Treasurer, Joseph Roberts, North & South Wales Bank,
Xew Ferry
Medical Officer of Health, George Arthur Kenyon M.B.
Flookers brook, Chester
Surveyor, H. W. Corrie, Council offices
Sanitary Inspector, Charles J. Westmorland, Council
offices
Collector, Fredk. Jas. Elsby, 48 New Ferry lao New Ferry
School Attendance Officer, George Glasscott, 86 New
Ferry lane, New Ferry
Hig-her Be'OOngton.
:\Ieets at the Victoria hall, ViUage road, every first mono
in the month at 8 p.m.
Members.
Chairman, Joseph Utley Hodgson.
Upper Ward.
Lower Ward.
Retire April
Retire April
Charles Reeves Ellis 1903 Samuel Oliver Oates... 1903
John James Evans 1903 George Robert Thomas 1903
Joseph V. Hodgson 1904 James Joseph Cannell... 1904
Robert Rollo Woodcock 1904 Walter Dennis Woodin 1904
Henry Johnson 1905 Charles McGivering 1905
John Lee 1905 Rev. Leslie W. Troughton
M.A. • 1905
Officials.
Clerk, John Hamer Kenion, 10 Cook street, Liverpool
Treasurer, Joseph B. Roberts, Xorth .t South Wales
Banl{, Rock Ferry
Medical Officer of Health, George Arthur Kenyon M.B.
Flooke:rs brook, 'Chester
Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector & Collector, George Moss
Llord'; office, King street, Rock Ferry
PUBLIC ESTABLISHiMENT\S.
(For particulars of the union see Birkenhead miscellaneo\LS)
Ce~etery, Town lane, Woodhey, J. E. Lloyd, Town hall,
Bll'kenhead, clerk to the burial board; Samuel Moss
Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Post, S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office, Bebington
Dyer, registrar
Higher Bebington Urban District Fire Reel Station, Higher
Village.-~Irs. E. Stephenson, sub-postmistTess. Lettel'S
through Birkenhead. Dispatches, 9.45 a.m. &;
Bebington
Lower Bebington Urban District Fire Station &; Mortuarr,
1.3 0 , 4. 15 &; 8 p.m.; deliveries, 6.40 a.m. & 1.10, 2.30 Grove road, New Ferry
& 5. 10 p.m.; sundar, dispatch. 6.20; delivery, 6,4° MareI' ~ree Libl'ary, Bebington Village, John Harding.
a.m. Telegraph. 8 to 8; sunday, 8 to 10 a.m librarlan
Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,. PUB~IC OF~CERS
Higher Bebiington.-:\I'iss A. E. Lewis, sub-postmistress. Med~cal Offic~r &; P~b~lc Vaccmator, Bebington District,
Letters through Birkenhead. Dispa.tches, 9 a.m. & Wlrral Um~n, Wilham Robert James Gars-on M.B.,
3.45 &; 7.30 p.m.; deliveries, 6,4° a.m. &; 5. 10 p.m. ; C.M. 6 Bebmgton road, Lower Bebington
no dispatch on sundays. The nearest telegraph office! Overseers of the Township of Lower Bebington, Joseph
is at Bebington Village, 2 miles distant I D~~amore &; James McLeavy
Pillar Letter Boxes, Townfield lane, cleared 9 a.m. & 1.15, I.ASSlstant Ov~rseer, Frank H. Elsby, 15 Church road,
3.30, 6.15 &; 8 p.m. Bolton road, cleared 8.30 a.m. & Lower Bebmgton
12.45, 3.15, 6 &, 7.30 .p.m . SCHpOLS.
'1'all Letter Boxes, Oakleigh grove, cleared 9 a.m. &; I. IS, , National, Storeton, erected m 1865, by Sir Thos. Bro~kle-
3.30, 6. IS &; 8 p.m. Ellen's lane, 9 a.m. & 1.15. 3.3°, ba.nk bart. for 60 c~dren; average attendance, 45;
6. IS &; 8 p.m. Church road, 9 a.m. & I, 3.3°, 6. I C; &; 8 ),I!ss Sarah Banks, IDlstress
p.m. Village road, 9 a.m. & 3-45 &; 7.30 p.m. Store- Natlonal, Higher Bebington, built in 1.846, for 280 chilton
Box cleared at 7. 15 p.m. on week days. BrimstaO'e dren; average attendance, 187; Ed. John Radford.
Box cleared at 7 p.m. on week days. Woodhey road, m.aster; Miss Fanny Urmson, mistress
cleared 9.15 & II a.m. &; 2, 5,45, 7.3°, 9. 15 & 10.30 Nat~onal (mixed &; in~ants), Lower Bebington. enc10wed
p.m.; sunday, 5. 15 & 10.30 p.m
Wl!th £4 2 yearly, denved from land, erected in 1851, for
130 boys, IIO girls & 120 infants; average attend. III
boys, 100 girls &; 82 infants' Alfd. Blakemore master'
Mrs. Dickins, girls' mist.;' Miss Jones, inf~nts' mi;t,
Railway Station, Low. Bebington, In. Doricott, stn. mstr
Conveyance.
Birkenhoo.d Corporation Ferry, steamers to Liverpool,
5.15, 6·5. 7, 7. 7·55, 8.25 a.m. then half-hourly till
6·55 p.m. then 7.25, 8.25, 9:25 & 10.25 p.m.; sundays.
1. 25 p.~. &, haM-hourly until 8.25 p.m. then 9.25 p.m.
From Liverpool, 5.35, 6.30, 7.3°, 8 a.m. &; then halfhourly
WI 8 p.m. then 9, 10 &; I I p.m.; sund'ays, 2
.p.m. & half-hourly. until 8 p.m. then 9 p.m. &, 10 p.m
Bll'~enhead CorporatlOn Tramways (electric) run cars to
Blrkenhead 4.47 a.m. every ten minutes till II.57 a.m.
then every five minutes till 8.57 p.m. tuen
every ten minutes till II. 17 p.m.; sundays, I.5
p. m. & every ten minutes till 10.15 p.m. From Birkenhead,
5. 1~ a.m. every ten minutes till 12.22 p.m. &;
e:very five mmutes to 9.22 p.m. then every ten minutes
t~ll II.42 p.m.; sundays, 1.30 p.m. &; every ten minutes
till 10.40 p.m
A 'bus leaves for Bromboro' at 8.35,9.35 &; hourly till 12.35
J. MeLea")'
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1905
p.m. then half-hourly till 9.5 p.m.; sat. 9.35 p.m.
From B~omboro', 9 a.m. &, hourly till 1 p.m. then halfhourly
t.lll 9.30 p.m.; sat. 10 p.m