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510 SANDBACH. CHESHIRE. [ KELLY'SARCLID.Kennedy Lt.-Col. In. J.P. Brookside Butters Edward, farmerCOMMERCIAL.Cooke Thomas, farmer. Arclid greenBeech James, farmer, Brook farm Congleton Union Workhouse (JohnBoffey Phillip, farmerYoung, governor)Boffey Robert (Mrs.), grocer Crewe Joseph, farmer, Cottage farmBroad John, farmer; & at Smallwood Dakin Margaret (Mrs.), farmel'Broad Alfd. Wm. frmr. Arclid cottage Davenport Allen, shoe makerETTILEY BEATH.Ash William. farmerBrereton Edwin, coal merchantBrereton Thomas. cowkeeperCooke Abel, farmerDunning William, beer retailer\ Hassall Thomas. farmerHague In. farmer, Arclid Hall fztrmJones William. builderPeaver William, Rose & Crown P.H.builder & farmerPlant Charles. blacksmithYearsley Thomas, cowkeeperHodgson George, cowkeeperIHodgson Jobn, farmerI Warburton J as. traction engine propl'SEACOMBE is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1847 18,3°,9& [I.go p.m. ; sundays, 5.15 & 111.15 p.m. Telefromthe parish of Wallasey, with a station on the Wirral graph office open on sunday, from 8 to 10 p.mrailway, and is also a steamboat· station on theriver Mersey, directly opposite to Liverpool, a mile and a WALLASEY URBAN DLSTRlar COUNCIL.half north from Birkenhead railway station and a mile west For names of members & officials see Egremont.from Liverpool by ferry across the Mersey, in the WirralSchools.division of the county of Chester, lower diviS'ion of the B d P ulhundred of Wirral, union and county court district of oa:, 0 to~ road, erected in 18 9 2 , for 450 boys, 390Birkenhead, rural deanery of Birkenhead and archdeaconry g~rls 3 68 l~fants; a.verage attendance. 35 0 boys, 365guls & 236 mfants; James Fullerton, master' Missand diocese of Chester. Seacombe forms two wards of M. Coffee, mistress; Miss Beatrice M. Bostock, infants'the eight compriS'ing the Urban district of Wallasey. mistressnamed respectively North and South Seacombe, and is St P ul' N' Ilighted with gas and supplied with water by that Council ..a s atlona, Bridle road, erected in 1867, for 810from works at Poulton-cum-Seacombe. The church of St. children; average attendance, 850; Charles MartinPaul is a building of stone in the Middle Pointed style Coffee, master; Miss Esther Teare, mistress; Mrs.Margaret Hughes, infants' mistressprevalent about the latter part of the 13th century, and W 1 (. d)consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles. es eyan mlXe ,Brighton street, erected in 1856 & ensouthporch and a western tower with pinnacles containing larged 1.87~, for 5 2 5 children; average attendance, 427 p. . h James Wnght, master; Mrs. Mary A. Newbould misonebell: there are eight ·stamed wmdows: t e church was tress; (infants) built in 1889, for 200 children; a;erageenlargedin 1862 and a north aisle transept and vestry attendance, 120added in 1891 from designs by Messrs. Grayson and Ould, 0 L darchitects, at a cost of £1,5°0, principally subscribed by ur a y & St. Joseph's Catholic (mixed), Wheatland lane.d . . built in 1t876, for 440 children; average attendance,residents in the district: the church affor s 900 slttings. 292 ; Miss Bridget MoKeon, mistress; (infant,s' newThe registers date from the year 1847. The living is a school) for 262 children; average at'tendance 126; Missvicarage, net yearly value £404, without residence, in the Kate MadMahon, mistress 'gift of trustees, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Robert Fire Engine Station, Seacombe division, Platt street~Johnston Weatherhead M.A. of Trinity ·College, Dublin, James Brown, superintendent; 'WIlliam Clark, captainhone canon of Chester and surrogate, who resides at & 7 menEgremont. The Oatholic church, dedicated to Our Lady Ferry Station.and St. Joseph, and erected in 1889, is a building of stonein the Gothic style: the west front was completed and a Steamboats to Liverpool (wind & weather permittingbaptistery added in 1894: the church will seat 600 persons. & casualties excepted) hourly from I a.m. to 5 a.m.;The 'Vesleyan chapel was erected in 1,857; the Welsh ev;ry i ho~r from 5 a.m. till 8 a.m.; then every 10Calvinistic church in Liscard road, erected in 1878, is a mmutes untIl 10 a.m. & then every i hour until 5 p.m.;building of stone in the Gothic style with a lofty spire. and then every 10 minutes unbil 7 p.m.; then every i hourseats 500 persons. Seacombe Bethel, Wheatland lane. is until 9 p.m.; then i hourly until 12.g0 a.m.; saturdaysan institution in connection with the Seamen and Boat- as above until 10 a.m.; then i hourly until 10.30 p.m. pmen's Fr~end Society, established in 1883, and provides a then i hourly until 12·30 a.m.; midnight, I a.m. to 5place of worship for seamen; a new Bethel wa$ built in a.m.; sundays, 12·30 & I a.m. & hourly until 7 a.m.i1892 at a cost of £9°0. The Seacombe Institute and then 7·30 & ! hourly until lI.go a.m. then 11.45 a.m.Vienna Hall, Brighton street, consists of reading, billiard, &; i hourly until 8.go p.m.; then i hourly until 12.30chess and draughts rooms, club room and various class a.m. Fare, 4·45 a.m. to 12·30 a.m. Id. each; 12·45rooms for the teaching of drawing and painting; the a.m. to 4 a.m. 6d. each, including contractorsinstitute is supported by subscriptions; attached to theLuggage Boat.institute is an ambulance class. and an ambulance is kept 6.go a.m.; then 8 a.m. & hourly until 6 p.m. tuesdays,here for use in case of accident; the library consists of wednesdays, fridays & saturdays; 7 a.m. & hourly untilupwards of 3,700 volumes.6 p.m.mondays &thursdays (1St April to 31St October);Seacombe is one of the ancient ferries of the Mersey, and 7 a.m. & hourly until 5 p.m. from 1St Nov. to 31st Marcbthe present ferry,opened for traffic in 1879, was constructedWallasey Omnibuses.at a cost of £150,000, upon a part of the foreshore reclaimedfor that purpose; it includes a landing stage with From Seacombe to New Brighton, 8.3 0 till 10 a.m. everycovered connecting bridges for passenger traffic, on a 10 minutes; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every i hour; 5 to 7 p.m.similar scale and design with those at Liverpool and Wood- every 10 minutes; 7 to 9 p.m. every i hour; 9 to IIside, and has a lofty clock tower; there is also a -special p.m. every i hourarrangement for the goods and railway cross-river traffic,Wallasey Tramways.by means of hydraulic lifts placed at the extremity of a Seacombe to New Brighton, 8·30 a.m. to 10.3 0 p.m.;high level pier projecting into the river to the edge of the then II & II·3 0 p.m.; sundays, II a,m. 12 noon & 1.3 0landing stage; by means of these lifts (which are each p.m. &; every 15 minutes till 10·30 p.mequal to a 25 tons load) wagons and carts can be put upon POULTON-COO..SEAOOrMiBE is a township on Wallaseythe landing stage at any state of tide, and without loss of Pool, half a mile south from Liscard and Poulton stationtime or risk, and are thence dispatched by steamer to on the Wirral railway and about· 3i miles north fromLiverpool. There are four good hotels. Several inqui- Birkenhead in the parish of West Wallasey. Poultonsitions of the date of Henry VI. show that part of the village forms a ward of Wallasey Urban Distr'ict Oouncilmanor of Poulton, with that of Seacombe, was then held district and is lighted with gas and supplied with waterby the Houghs, of Leighton, under the Pooles. The by t'he District Council. St. Luke's church, Breck road,representatives of the late Rev.Mr.Mainwaring,the trustees is in connection with 1St. Hilary's church, Wallasey.of the late Captain Smith and Mr. Charles Mainwaring are In Breck road. close to the boundary of IWallasey andthe chief landowners. The .goil is principally clay; the Poulton, is a monument of stone, erected to the memorysubsoil, various. The area of Seacombe is 830 acres; of Mrs. Boode, of Leasowe Castle, who was killed near thisrateable value, with Poulton, £125,°46; the population of spot by 80 fall from her pony caTriage, April zISt, 11S2'6.the ecclesia.stical parish in 1891 was 10,586. The area of the township is 758 acres of land. 72 ofTown Sub-Post, M. O. & T. 0., T.M. .0 .• Express De- water, 276 of tidal water and go of foreshore; rateablelivery, Parcel Post. S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, value with Seacombe, £lz5,046; the population in 1901-Clifford .fl. Sturt·, sub-postmaster, Brighton street. . was 20,547, but the area of the ward of 'Poulton~etters from all parts received from Birkenihead & de- Iis 505 acres, rateable value £'le,950 and population $,93 1 •lIvery commence~ at 7 a.m. '12 noon, 4 & 7 p.m.; iun- I Post & M. o. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office,days, 7 a.m.; dIspatched at 10 &; 11.30 a.m. 2, 5·45. Poulton.-Mrs. Mary Torrance, sub-postmistress. L~-