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Although '''Westminster Road'''<ref>''<small>Article by Ralph Earlam, some parts of which were initially published in ‘Hoole Roundabout’ in June and July 2015 - <nowiki>http://www.hooleroundabout.com</nowiki></small>''</ref> was one of the earliest streets in Hoole it was not a through road until the 1880s. Before that date the first 100 yards or so from Hoole Road were a gated access (the pillars remain today) to serve the rear of Egerton Terrace and Swinfen Villas. These two properties were a part of Moor Park whose boundary wall made the street north from Charles Street into a cul-de-sac. A petition signed by 200 residents to remove the wall was presented to the local Council in 1871.
In those 100 yards, on the eastern side Williams Terrace (now Nos.4-10) was built, to be joined in 1894 by the new Hoole Urban District Council's Offices, a house (No.2) for the Sanitary Inspector, and the base for the Hoole Volunteer [[Fire Service]]. It is just possible to decipher Hoole Urban District Council on the front of the tyre depot today. By 1902 a Fire Station had been erected on the site, and after the Council moved to The Elms in 1924 the offices were used by Moffat and Gillespie for their drapery business, and the Fire Station became a lino and curtain warehouse run by Greenaway and Sons.
[[File:8SHP2 Westminster Rd looking north from Charles St.jpg|left|thumb|''<small>Westminster Road looking north from Charles Street</small>'']]
On the western side the gardens to Egerton Terrace were sold in 1884 to build a row of houses (Nos.1-11), and a Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, the site of which became G.F. Brammall's garage, complete with petrol pump; this later became Bill Smith's Motorcycles and is now an enclosed area for Lewis’s Ice Cream vans.
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