handley wirral kellys directories

[vmarthur]

Hi to Wirral
Hope you are out there somewhere.

can you tell me if any handleys are listed in the tranmere area of birkenhead about 1940. They lived in what became known as "donkey town"
I believe this area to be off Old Chester Rd.

regards

[Wirral]

Sorry, none in Tranmere.

[maureen54]

Hi VMArthur & Wirral....

I checked for Handleys also in the 1938 Directory but there are only a few in Birkenhead & Poulton, re the area i found this for you....

According to the Godfrey Edition of the 1909 map of that area,
"Lower Tranmere, originally called Hinderton stood
between Holt Hill and the river. It possessed an inlet
(Tranmere Pool, where the Happy Valley stream entered
the river), a river frontage, and a ferry - all engulfed by the
Cammell Laird's shipyards before 1909. It had been a
fishing village, and until 1936 a row of fisherman's cottages
stood in Green Lane. Lower Tranmere was bisected by the
Old Chester Road: the main highway between Woodside
Ferry and Chester until the construction of Thomas Brassey's
New Chester Road (with the embankment across Tranmere
Pool) in 1839-40. Hinderton's other industry was stone-
quarrying, and a number of quarries in the face of the hill
were still worked in 1909

and this ..............

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A3063205

Cheers
Maureen