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A selection of articles describing the history of the streets of Hoole.
== Bishop Street ==
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== Faulkner Street<ref>''<small>Article by Ralph Earlam, some parts of which were initially published in ‘Hoole Roundabout’ in April and May 2015 - <nowiki>http://www.hooleroundabout.com</nowiki></small>''</ref> ==
The first record of Faulkner Street, built on land belonging to the Faulkner family, appears in the 1851 Census showing 23 houses. The 1861 Census records the 60 premises we see today terminating where Griffiths Terrace used to be. The continuation of Faulkner Street was not built until the
The name Faulkner is derived from 'falconer' which explains why until recently three black falcons appeared on the prominent corner pub sign of the Faulkner Arms.
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An extract and plan from the deeds for five houses at the original end of the street show the renumbering on that side. No.74 (originally No.66) was occupied by Leonard Riley from before 1871 until his death in 1892. He was a cowkeeper, using the yard and outbuildings there, and the field behind called Cowpastures, to raise his dairy cattle. His son, also named Leonard Riley, who continued to live there was appointed as the first park keeper of Alexandra Park in 1904. His daughter was married to Thomas Baldwin the greengrocer from Charles Street.
Like Goodman Roberts some family businesses thrived throughout the first part of the
Past members of the Boys' Brigade will recall Faichney's taxis and coaches at No.10 who provided transport for the Brigade on their outings.
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[[File:8SHC6 The Faulkner.jpg|thumb|''<small>The Faulkner Public House, Hoole</small>'']]
The first pub to open was the Faulkner Arms an advertisement for a pigeon shooting there appearing in the Chester Chronicle on
[[File:8SHC4.png|left|thumb|''<small>Advertisement Chester Chronicle 16 August 1851</small>'']]
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[[File:8SHC5 Bromfield Arms.jpg|center|thumb|''<small>The Bromfield Arms, Hoole</small>'']]
The Bromfield Arms is first mentioned in a licence transfer in 1864. The earliest innkeeper recorded in 1867 was Thomas Balshaw who had opened one of Hoole's first shops in Peploe Street (this shop later became Lewis's Ice Cream shop). He died in 1874 and there were then
[[File:8SHC7 St Royal Oak.jpg|thumb|''<small>The Royal Oak, Hoole</small>'']]
The Hamilton Arms appears to have been an earlier name for the Royal Oak whose first landlord was Edward Edwards in 1864. He was followed in 1871 by Philip Gorst, in 1878 by Rebecca Hughes and in 1899 by George Ryan who was also a taxi driver. The Gatehouse Brewery, Birkenhead which became the West Cheshire Brewery supplied the beer. Eventually the West Cheshire Brewery was taken over by Threlfalls of Liverpool.
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There were also two other licensed premises in Faulkner Street at the end of the 19th century: Dickinson the Chemist for medical purposes and Denson the grocer at No.8 who was also a wine merchant.
More information on Faulkner Street can be found in the articles on Butchers' Shops in [[Retail & Trades|'''Retail & Trades''']] and the Dinwoodie Family in [[People of Hoole|'''People of Hoole''']].
As a result of reading these articles, John Walker, a member of the Society, has written his reminiscences as a boy growing up in Faulkner Street in the post-World War 2 years ([[John Walker Reminiscences|'''John Walker Reminiscences''']]).
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Current information held by the Society on Fieldway & Sandileigh is available in the article on [[Hoole Road|'''Hoole Road''']] - Folly House.
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One of the [[Lost Streets of Hoole|'''Lost Streets of Hoole''']].
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[[File:8SHE1 Hamilton St.jpg|left|thumb|''<small>Hamilton Street, Hoole</small>'']]
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The street name comes from the Hamilton family who, in the late 1700s and the early 1800s, acquired a large part of the land on which urban Hoole was developed after the railways arrived in Chester. They built Hoole House in 1760 and acquired Hoole Old Hall (not the present Hoole Hall) in 1800. Charles Hamilton lived at Hoole Lodge (the manor house which was on the west corner of what is now Park Drive and Hoole Road) which they leased from the Earl of Shrewsbury who was Lord of the Manor.
[[File:8SHE2 Hamilton St.jpg|thumb|''<small>Hamilton Street, Hoole</small>'']]
In the mid-
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The Offices of the Hoole Local Board set up in 1864 (forerunner of Hoole Urban District Council) were at No.21, and a 1902 Directory even records a purpose-built laundry operating from No.43. An 1874 map also shows that several of the houses had wells on their premises.
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A Methodist Chapel which opened in 1903 was replaced by the present Church in 1928.
Some older readers will recall that Crosville's Piper's Ash / Guilden Sutton bus to and from Chester went via Hamilton Street (impossible to imagine today with cars parked along the length of it!).
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The [[Hoole Road|'''Hoole Road''']] is a major artery through Hoole and several articles have been written about the history of separate sections. These include: Hoole Bridge to Lightfoot Street; Lightfoot Street to the 'Shell' Garage; the 'Shell' Garage itself; and
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One of the [[Lost Streets of Hoole|'''Lost Streets of Hoole''']].
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[[File:8SHK1 Lightfoot St Aerial Photo 1931.jpg|thumb|''<small>Aerial view 1931 showing the continuous row of terraced houses</small>'']]
If you pass by quickly, the eastern side of Lightfoot Street appears to be a continuous row of terraced houses. Look closely and you will see differences in style which came about with the development of that side of the street.
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William Williams, a builder from Halkyn Road, then bought the land for £3,608 and began the extension of Lightfoot Street from No.41. These newer houses crossed the end of Faulkner Street and if you look closely next time you pass you will see that the change in the facade of these dwellings is quite distinctive.
For the history of the site at the junction with Westminster Road see [[Westminster Road|'''Westminster Road''']] article.
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[[File:8SHK3 Lightfoot St Railway Plan 1860.jpg|thumb|''<small>Lightfoot Street and the Railway Plan 1860</small>'']]
The western side of Lightfoot Street has been railway property since the arrival of the line from Crewe which opened in 1840. By the time Chester General Railway Station was built in 1848 the Railway Company had purchased lands in Hoole from Macclesfield School and the estate of John Lightfoot which included the stream known as Flookers Brook, which was diverted and eventually piped. The Station and the many lines that enter it were actually built on the boggy flood plain of Flookers Brook, which was the original boundary of the townships of Hoole and Newton with Chester, and early OS maps show how it meandered across the Station site as far as Lower Brook Street.
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Lightfoot Street was not yet a road and it was not until Brabner & Court, Solicitors from Liverpool, acquired lands from the estate of John Lightfoot in the 1870s that the street was built but only as far as Peploe Street (now Westminster Road), the extension to Hoole Lane not being completed until the 1960s.
[[File:8SHK4 Lightfoot St.jpg|left|thumb|''<small>Lightfoot Street looking West</small>'']]
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Other land not needed for railway purposes was eventually developed for the light industrial use, garages, and workshops that we see today. On the other side of Westminster Road Bridge the Railway Social Club was built (a model steam train used to operate here) and more recently Thomas Brassey Close has been erected named of course after the builder of Chester’s General Railway Station.
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[[File:8SHK5 Lightfoot St.jpg|thumb|''<small>Lightfoot Street looking East</small>'']]
Because of its origins, the road was often in a bad state of repair, cab drivers refused to deliver there, and the council received a lot of criticism. It could never have been envisaged that the street along which cattle were driven would eventually contain so many parked cars and require speed humps.
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Lightfoot Street was part of the one-way traffic plan for the thousands of visitors arriving by rail for the Royal Agricultural Show in 1895 who would use the newly opened Hoole entrance to the station. Hackney carriages would bring their passengers back down Hoole Road, along Hamilton Street, Peploe Street (now Westminster Road) and so back to the station entrance via Lightfoot Street.
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When the Society was asked if there is any information about Queensway, it seemed unlikely that a residential road developed partially before and partially after the Second World War would have any detailed history, but research has established some facts which are of interest not only to Queensway but to the surrounding areas.
[[File:8SHL1 Hoole Road to Upton showing Newton Hollows 1931.jpg|thumb|''<small>Aerial photograph c.1931 showing Hoole Road to Upton and Newton Hollows</small>'']]
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It has been suggested that Queensway and Kingsway were so named because of the support for the Monarchy following the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936. Unfortunately, part of Kingsway was already built and named by then.
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[[File:8SHM1 Roberts Row.jpg|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 of the properties appear in a 1927/8 Directory and all are listed in a 1929/30 Directory. An aerial view (“Britain from Above” website) shows them in 1931. Locally they were known as Roberts Row. Apparently, the Roberts family owned the land and were able to build on it, and in 1933/34 no fewer than three of the houses were actually occupied by families called Roberts.
Originally all the houses had individual names – the only one displaying its name today is No.195
[[File:8SHM2 Hoole Lane Aerial Photo 1931.jpg|left|thumb|''<small>Aerial photograph c.1931 Hoole Lane</small>'' <ref>''<small>Copyright ‘Historic England’ <nowiki>http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/EPW037241</nowiki></small>''</ref>]]
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This land on the north side was sold in 1852 – the sale details show that Hoole Lane was then called St. Anne's Lane. When the Workhouse was built in 1878 it was for a short time known as Workhouse Lane. Hoole Lane was a long-established route from Chester through Boughton to Guilden Sutton and remained a country lane for many years, the last farm “Batemans” not being developed for housing until the middle of the 20th century.
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[[File:8SHN1 Walker St.jpg|left|frameless|183x183px]]
An exploration of the early history of this street which "dog-legs" from Faulkner Street to Lightfoot Street.
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Walker Street was built in 1881 from an opening in Lightfoot Street (see article above). Initially it only went as far as Pickering Street, the dogleg, its link to Faulkner Street, known as New Walker Street, not being built until 1887 when All Saints School was erected. It was necessary to demolish houses in Faulkner Street by the Bromfield Arms to create the opening for Walker Street.
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[[File:8SHN2 Walker St.jpg|thumb|''<small>Walker Street 'Corner Shop'</small>'']]
Unlike Faulkner Street and Charles Street where houses were turned into shops, Walker Street had shops on every corner. The range of shop provided all that one could need; grocers, bakers, butchers, newsagent, smallwares, boots and shoes, as well as a bicycle dealer. They changed hands and their type of trade frequently. Old “Hooligans” fondly recall Lowndes' fish & chip shop being there.
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The Co-op in Walker Street closed in July 2017 (the Faulkner Street shop had already closed) in order to concentrate business on The Elms site on Hoole Road. This brought to an end 110 years of the Co-op on its Walker Street site.
The other major building was the Tin Chapel erected in 1894 following a dispute between Nonconformists, who had run a successful Sunday School at Westminster Road Schools, and the Church of England to whom the Duke of Westminster eventually gave the Schools. The Chapel was originally a Church of England Mission Hall from Edge Hill in Liverpool. When the Congregational Church moved to its present site on Hoole Road, it became Braids furniture store.▼
In the 1950s, football fans could catch a double decker bus from behind the Bromfield Arms to take them to Chester Stadium in Sealand Road. It’s unlikely that the bus would get through today.
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== Warrington Road - Mayfield House<ref>''<small>Article researched and written by Ralph Earlam, August 2019, Hoole History & Heritage Society</small>''</ref> ==▼
[[File:8SHN4 Montage of Cinemas in Chester in the early 1900s.jpg|thumb|318x318px|''<small>A montage of Cinemas in Chester in the early 1900s</small>'']]
It is not widely known that in 1913 an application was made to build a picture house opposite the Co-operative Store which opened in 1906 in Walker Street. The proposal by William Williams, Hoole’s well known builder, would have seated 450/500 people. The architect was R. Cecil Davies recognised for founding Hoole's Volunteer Fire Brigade and who became Mayor of Chester. A major concern was protection in case of fire, and exits and equipment came under scrutiny. Mr. Williams said that, if a license was granted, he would allow firemen to be on duty there, as they did in cinematograph halls in Chester.
The plans were not proceeded with and today's terrace of houses with then a shop at either end was eventually built on the site. Hoole residents had to go to the pictures in Chester and a montage of the cinemas there is shown.
===The area between Pickering Street and School Street===
The area of land between Pickering Street and School Street has over the years seen some interesting activities. The [[Hoole Millennium Book|'''Hoole Millennium Book''']] incorrectly attributes the street’s name to George Pickering, an artist who lived at Brook Lodge and whose work included paintings of the gardens in Hoole House. Pickering Street was actually named after Thomas Walker's daughter, Elizabeth Pickering, who had married Charles William Harrison Pickering a merchant banker from Liverpool, who helped finance the second transatlantic cable.
[[File:8SHN5 Advertisment 1914.jpg|left|thumb|415x415px|''<small>Advertisment 1914</small>'']]
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At the end of School Street, Weaver Bros. who advertised themselves as “Removers, Packers & Storers of Furniture” ran their business from the turn of the century to 1914 when they sold off their carts and equipment and advertised the premises as “''a large yard with stabling for 5 horses, loose box and coach house etc. to be let''".
[[File:8SHN6 Thomas Mangel in School Street.jpg|thumb|330x330px|''<small>Thomas Mangel in School Street</small>'']]
During this time Thomas Mangel set up his carriage hire business with landau and hansom cabs being available. His business continued throughout the First World War and despite the development of motor transport was still running in 1923.
A photograph taken in School Street in the 1930s shows Jack Smith and 3 colleagues on motorbikes and it seems that they were garaged there. Jack Smith, well known for his Pioneer Shoe Shop in Faulkner Street, was a motorcycle enthusiast and a prominent member of Chester Motor Club becoming its chairman. In 1933 he was captain of the Hoole side in a motorcycle football match against Chester. He was responsible for bringing motorcycle grass track racing to Hoole Playing Field and his son, Bill, became a prominent TT rider.
[[File:8SHN7 Motorbikes in School Street.jpg|center|thumb|371x371px|''<small>Motorbikes in School Street</small>'']]
In 1931 the end property was sold, and it became the base for Crimes Removals, their vans becoming a regular sight in the area. George Arthur Crimes lived at No.2 School Street and after war service he became the first Treasurer of Hoole & Newton British Legion and of their Poppy Day Appeal. Following his death in 1968, Lewis’s Ice Cream acquired the premises using it to garage their own vehicles and sub-letting it to the Schools Meals Service and for car repair work. Unfortunately, in 1979 John Lewis, a partner in the firm was found hanged there.
From 1963 School Street Garage advertised its business and occasional car sales. Tom Parry and Chris Vollands became the owners. Tom still works there today using the name ‘The Black Taxi Garage’.
School Street was originally a cul-de-sac and the entrance to the Urban District Council’s Depot. It was opened up to provide access to the misnamed Ashtree Court which was built on the site behind the Council’s offices at The Elms. Ashtree House was a large west facing mansion some 300 yds further down Hoole Road next to the 'Beehive' pub, at the end of what is now Phillip Street.
A number of images relating to the Walker Street area follows.<gallery widths="250" heights="200" perrow="4" mode="packed">
File:8SHN8 Site plan for the Co-Op in Walker Street.jpg|''<small>Site plan for the Co-Op in Walker Street</small>''
File:8SHN9 The Co-Op circa 1912.jpg|''<small>The Co-Op circa 1912</small>''
File:8SHN10 Co-Op staff moved for a close up.jpg|''<small>Co-Op staff moved for a close up</small>''
File:8SHN11 The Co-Op before its funeral department moved in (note the doorway to the corner shop opposite).jpg|''<small>The Co-Op before its funeral department moved in (note the doorway to the corner shop opposite)</small>''
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File:8SHN12 No. 5 Walker Street on corner of Phillip Street.jpg|''<small>No. 5 Walker Street on corner of Phillip Street</small>''
File:8SHN13 No. 6 Walker Street on opposite corner. T. Weedon was a tailor in the 1950s.jpg|''<small>No. 6 Walker Street on opposite corner. T. Weedon was a tailor in the 1950s</small>''
File:8SHN14 No. 20 Walker Street on corner of Tomkinson Street.jpg|''<small>No. 20 Walker Street on corner of Tomkinson Street</small>''
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[[File:8SHO1.png|thumb|''<small>Mayfield House</small>'']]
'''Mayfield House''' - the home of Rev. Isaac Temple from 1833-1880 and the family of S.J.R. Dickson from 1881-1949.
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'''Family'''
Isaac Temple was married twice. His first wife, Sarah Jane was born in 1797 in Endon, Staffordshire and died in the 1860s. His second wife, Anne, was local from Trafford. There were 5 children from his first marriage:
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[[File:8SHO4 Map showing Rectory next to Church.png|thumb|265x265px|''<small>Map showing Rectory next to Church</small>'']]
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==Westminster Road==
[[Westminster Road|'''Westminster Road''']] is a main link running from Hoole Road in the North to Lightfoot Street in the South.▼
==Lost
The [[Lost Streets of Hoole|'''Lost Streets of Hoole''']] include Bishop Street, Law Street, and Griffiths Terrace. These properties along with those in Faulkner Street, Charles Street, and the northern end of Peploe Street (Westminster Road) were the first streets of urban Hoole.▼
▲[[Westminster Road]] is a main link running from Hoole Road in the North to Lightfoot Street in the South.
▲== Lost Streets of Hoole ==
▲The [[Lost Streets of Hoole]] include Bishop Street, Law Street, and Griffiths Terrace. These properties along with those in Faulkner Street, Charles Street, and the northern end of Peploe Street (Westminster Road) were the first streets of urban Hoole.
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