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→Roberts RowArticle by Ralph Earlam, some parts of which were initially published in ‘Hoole Roundabout’ in December 2015 - http://www.hooleroundabout.com
(Created page with "Category: SiteIndex Category: Streets ==Roberts Row<ref>''<small>Article by Ralph Earlam, some parts of which were initially published in ‘Hoole Roundabout’ in December 2015 - <nowiki>http://www.hooleroundabout.com</nowiki></small>''</ref>== thumb|''<small>Roberts Row, Hoole Lane</small>'' The houses 189–203 Hoole Lane were built in the late 1920s on land which was a market garden run by H. S. Roberts called 'The Oaks'. Two o...") |
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The original No.205 was a farmhouse set back where Hornbeam Close is today. This was occupied from 1927/8 until the 1950's by a George E. Roberts and was called “Lynwood”. George E. Roberts looked after the spinney behind Pine Grove and had large chicken houses there. (The spinney had been planted to block out the view of the Workhouse lower down Hoole Lane so that the then lady owner of [[Hoole House]] could see neither it nor the poor and destitute of Chester forced to seek shelter therein.) The spinney can be seen on the aerial photograph which was taken before Pine Grove was built around 1932, Myrtle Grove having already been completed. The white building very near to Hoole Lane below Myrtle Grove (level with the smoke from a passing train) was Shortridge's Dairy Farm which was still operating and selling milk in the late 1950s.
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