The Davies of Hoole: Difference between revisions

 

The family’s involvement with Hoole continued, as in March 1892, John H Davies & Sons were responsible for designing the proposed housing street including that for Ermine Road and the adjacent West Street for the Great Western Railway “Land Company”.

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The Davies family were to remain in residence until 1935, with various members of the family living there, after the passing of John Henry and his wife in 1906. Initially his fourth son Charles Harold Davies (1867 – 1952), together with John Henry’s daughters Martha Emily (1871 – 1963) and Edith Clarissa (1875 – 1950) resided in the house. In 1925 all three of them then moved to their new home further down Hoole Road, to the east, named Oaklands – now a hotel & restaurant.

 

Alfred Comenius, John Henry’s eldest son and Charles’ brother, moved into 3 Hamilton Street, with his spouse Mary and youngest son John Henry Davies. Whilst Alfred died in 1930, his widow did not leave Hamilton Street until 1935. Charles and Edith continued to live at Oaklands until Charles eventual death in 1952.

John Henry’s sons built other properties in the neighbourhood. Directly north of Hamilton Street across Hoole Road in Newton Lane is where his third son, the Architect, Arthur Frederick Davies (1865 – 1928) was to build his home in 1900. He named it ‘Harlestone’. It still stands today, but the tennis courts have gone, and other houses have been built in the garden, which once stretched almost to Hoole Road. Parallel to Hamilton Street, to the east, was Vicarage Road. Here, John Henry’s second son Richard Cecil Davies (1861-1917), built his own home and named it after the family’s historical property in Shropshire – ‘Yorton Lodge’.