Behind My Hindleys Phyl Sheppard traces her family ancestry back ...

WILLIAM THOMAS 1863 - 1944.
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It was about this time that Granddad
used to walk with a very young
William John (Dad) in the ‘Bassinet’
(a sort of pram) to show him to
his Grandma Sarah, who was apparently
a cook in the house of the
Vyner family, according to Dad’s
reminiscences. In 1902 at 10 Bray
Street, Edward Heaps Hindley
(Uncle Ted) was born to Granddad
and Grandma, he was baptised
at Laird Street Methodist
Chapel on September 24th.
A bassinet
50 Aspinall Street, Birkenhead,
as it is now
About 1904 Grand-dad bought a house
in the newly built row of houses in
Aspinall Street, which started at Park
Road North, not far from Birkenhead
Park. The house was No. 50; it was a
large house with one large and two
medium bedrooms, plus a lavatory and
bathroom, the latter having hot and cold
water. Downstairs were the usual
parlour, dining room and kitchen.
Outside there was a lavatory, which was
plumbed in, a small garden and a long
paved area at the end of which were two
large high wooden doors which opened
onto a cobbled entry. This was certainly
very different from the type of house
which any of the family had lived in
before. Grand-dad must have worked
very hard to have saved enough money to buy such a house, especially in
those days.