I think your picture may have been taken from a garden a little closer to Holt Road, judging from the angle looking at the end of Queens Place and the Pub.
I don't have a map with house numbers on, but the attached composite should help. It is taken from an 1875 map and a 1916 street directory. Other maps and directories are avaliable, as they say, but I don't have them. A lot of that property was demolished from about 1965 onwards. The cottages amongst the first to go, but I do remember them being there, as well as some of the shops.
I hope the map helps.
You may need to use CTRL + several times to enlarge. CTRL 0 restores. Actual size is A4 landscape.
Further to my last post It wasn't in fact the cottages but the house set back off the road number 84 which was between the cottages and the dark stone building on the corner. ah ha you map is really helpful thanks
i think i may have crooked billet and golden fleece mixed up on the other pictures posted. they definately lived opposite the crooked billet
Garnets .Best chips by far.I used to accompany my mate at the time Jimmy Taylor early 50s delivering the Liverpool Echo and was often given a free portion of chips.
I know it’s an old post but I wonder if the butcher’s shop was owned by Joseph (Joe) Leay who was my fathers elder brother. I think Joe’s parents also worked there, Joe & Florrie. For a few years post war my father also had a shop opposite which was a chandlers/ironmongers.
Apologies, only just seen these 2 replies from March. Yes, 52 Queens Street, Joseph Leay was an uncle and 51 Old Chester Road, which was I believe directly opposite, was my father, Robert Henry Leay, who ran a Chandlers for a few years post war. Many thanks.
