Huyton and Roby have enjoyed a long history. Birth-mothers full name: Joan Amy Brown Address in 1960: 6 Reeds Road, Huyton, Liverpool.

Still, the basic rule is that a Road runs between distant points, like two towns (think Liverpool Road, Manchester Road), whereas a Street has lots of buildings on it, such as a residential street (think Coronation Street!). alighted at Roby station. Fincham House Estate (1933) was influenced by garden cities, and the optimism of moving people out of the cities. Note on the text: as with many local history topics, my research on the history of Huyton is very dependent on one source. one or two to get you started. By convention, Huyton-with-Roby contains Huyton Park, Roby, Longview, Huyton Quarry, Page Moss, Woolfall Heath, Bowring Park, Fincham, and Court Hey. A few years later, the estate was sold and developed. A portion of the Molyneux-Seel land namely Huyton Hey Manor farm on Huyton Hey Road, is the township’s oldest surviving secular building. Thanks heaps. The focal point of Huyton is the historic Parish Church dedicated to St. Michael which stands (as many churches of this name), occupying high ground on a ridge and therefore visible throughout the township. The visual change in Huyton Village is evident through a study of old photographs of Derby Road taken from 1870s – 1977 before it was pedestrianised. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. There are eight public parks: Court Hey Park, Bowring Park (the oldest public park in Knowsley, opened in 1907), Huyton Lane Wetland, Jubilee Park (Twig Lane/Dinas Lane), McGoldrick Park (Rydal Road), Sawpit Park (Hall Lane/Sawpit Lane), Stadt Moers Park (covers more than 220 acres (0.89 km2) of land between Whiston and Huyton) and St. John's Millennium Green (Manor Farm Road).


Bk. I used to live in Elm House.

The rail and later the motorway are just the most recent stages in this pattern. The two manors of Huyton and Roby were owned by different thegns before the Conquest. Also, early in the war, an internment camp was set up in Huyton to house German and Austrian nationals who had been detained for fear of collaboration and spying. The history of Huyton has depended on its location on the route between Liverpool and the wider hinterland.

The last form is the most common spelling from 1300.

A couple of small finds hint tantalisingly at what might have gone on in the area before Huyton was founded. However, I grew up on a ‘Road’ and it was only about 150m long and was full of houses. Tom Driessen is Director of the Dutch National Crime Squad and says it's not an easy task: "The profile of those criminals from Liverpool is that they learned not only to do illegal activities but they learned to survive, and violence is part of their life from their youth... "We can't name names. Liverpool itself was encroaching from the west (King, 1984: 39).

King (1984: 13) notes that the priory’s grange (farm) was probably somewhere just west of Huyton church. Following recent major refurbishment, the introduction of electrification to the local network and with all four rail lines now back in use, rail travel is as busy as it ever was but quieter and more efficient. It is situated just north of the A57 in Mill Yard, east of the Alder Hey Children's Hospital.It is next-door to Broughton Hall High School, an all-girls Catholic school.. I always sought cash, always looked for cash. Do let me know if you find them!

Development of large villas came to a stop by 1891. Huyton RLFC struggled in the second division of the Rugby Football League until 1985, when they were replaced by Runcorn Highfield. The Hazels (or Red Hazels) and Hurst House were in the north east corner of the township; Wolfall Hall was on the north boundary, Dam House on the Roby border, and Huyton Hey just south of the station (Farrer & Brownbill, 1907). In the 1960s it was realised that the first phase hadn’t been enough to cope with the growing population.

Here are The Dissolution of the Monasteries had a knock-on effect for Huyton, as the sudden closing of Burscough Priory removed a source of building upkeep. There are In Toxteth, Inside Out met two former gang members who told us how easy it is for to get guns: "You can get an 8mm Luger for 350 bills or something.

The history of Huyton is closely conencted to that of Roby. This trend of building larger and larger stores continued nationally and on 28th August 2005 Asda Wal-Mart opened its two-storey superstore off Huyton Lane, the former Asda store being demolished. • ‘Foodie Friday’ events re-start under the new name: ‘Huyton Live,’ June 2019, For information about Local History in Knowsley please contact infoheritage@knowsley.gov.uk.

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Huntley and Palmer's biscuit factory opens on Wilson Road, Huyton Industrial Estate . Local Memories Wedding. The first part of the name may suggest a landing-place, probably on the banks of the River Alt.[3]. Frank Green suggests that the beginnings of the villages of Huyton and Roby can be traced back to the 10th century (AD 900 – 925).

Here are one or two to get you started! That’s a very good question! Sadly, Huyton College closed in 1993, the grounds now occupied by residential housing. A refusal to keep a church in repair brought fines, and this threat led to work being carried out in the years up to 1555.

And it’s not one that I’m sure has an answer. In 1894, the township was included in the Huyton with Roby Urban District. From 1944, American servicemen were temporarily stationed in Huyton.

This recognised the long-standing rivalry within the area between religious factions which reached a nadir in the seventies with end-of-term fighting between opposing Roman Catholic and Church of England Schools such as St. Augustine's of Canterbury and Seel Road School. Huytonians wishing to support a local semi-pro outfit have Prescot Cables located at Valerie Park in the Northern Premier League (Premier Division) less than 2 miles (3.2 km) away.

An interesting difference between Huyton at Domesday and West Derby is the lack of woodland recorded at the former. The Liverpool College for Girls, Huyton, as it was originally known, was started in 1894 and intended to be parallel to the Liverpool College Boys' Upper School. All rights reserved. A small number of prisoners did not return home to their native country but met and married local women and settled locally. The C. F. Mott site was eventually redeveloped, with the Hazels now at the entrance to a large business park complex. "My close blood brother Andrew John was shot dead in the street like a dog...", Andrew's brother, Carl John remembers, "It wasn't drug related, but it was related to to the gang mentality that was taking over a lot of major cities and urban inner city dwellings, like Liverpool ghetto areas.". Stephen French says that action is need now: "There's seven and eight year olds at home now - that are going to hit the streets in 10 years time. It has often been alleged that the bombers were forbidden to come home with unused ammunition (and a lighter aircraft is more likely to make it home safely). Robert de Lathom founded Burscough Priory and gave it Huyton Church as a money-earning endowment in around 1189-1191. With changing industrial development during the 19th Century, the area of Huyton Quarry expanded rapidly. [17], Huyton does not have its own hospital, therefore most of its famous sons and daughters will have been born elsewhere, usually in Liverpool or Whiston. I live in Australia and while I was born in the UK, it was in the south and I have never been to the Liverpool area. New central buildings included the Huyton Suite (now known as the Venue) in 1975 and the central library in 1978 (History – Huyton). Richard’s son Robert gave land in Roby to Burscough Priory, and Richard’s half-brother, Richard de Knowsley, gave the priory his mill pool at Woolfall (as well as the right to collect pig food – chestnuts, beech nuts and acorns – from trees in ‘the wood of Huyton’). King also identified Huyton Park as an area of development (1984: 50). Very very seldom was there guns.

Both Huyton and Roby are mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, Huyton being spelt Hitune.

This is close to the present Tollbar Cottage (which isn’t the original toll house, either having been rebuilt or extended since that time to a second storey). There is a Pinnington place at the top of Blacklow Brow which has a terrace of cottages in it. Hitune, Domesday; Houton, 1258; Huton, 1278; Hyton and Huyton, 1292. 6 memories of Huyton to read. If Huyton can maintain the balance between heritage and innovation, then it will have gained most from its long history. Origins of the name: High-lying town, possibly a landing place on the River Alt. Hi. The first reference to a school in Huyton was in 1527, and a new school opened in the area in 1555. The only MP was frontbench Labour politician, Harold Wilson who while representing the seat became Leader of the Labour Party in 1963 and Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and again from 1974-1976. Facilities were limited for the number of new arrivals. Oats, barley and beans feature in field names too.


As The Quarrymen, the Fab Four played the MPTE Social Club in Finch Lane. During 1970s, shopping habits changed dramatically around the country and in Huyton Village, Asda opened its large store at the north end of Derby Road on 8th November 1977 at a cost of £1.5 million. There are also the remains of a village cross (possibly an old boundary stone (Green)), but little else surviving from this early period. Now he helps kids and prisoners - counselling them about the horrific nature of crack and smack: "I dealt drugs, I dealt death - there's no two ways about it. During the 19th Century it had also been home for members of the Pilkington family, the glass-makers of St. Helens.

Past pupils and teachers are coming from as far afield as Australia, Austria and France. The only prehistoric find is a Bronze Age arrowhead found in a garden in 1925. If the chap asking the question wants more information please let me know. There are 6 memories of Huyton to read. He knew that we were aware what his criminal activity was and he used to use us as a game really. Huyton had changed only slowly up to the 19th century, but after the railway arrived it started to develop much faster. There is Pincroft Croft on Lawton Road, marking the former place of an enclosure for stray animals (King, 1984: 32). The camps played host to ‘enemy aliens’ (Germans and Austrians living in Britain) brought from across the country, as well as prisoners of war. The Stop Gate was on Diana’s (later Dinas) Lane where it leaves Twig Lane, which stopped people getting around the Prescot Gate. Short streets of terraced housing were built throughout this portion of the township to accommodate the workforce. Similarly, the original Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Agnes of 1856, was replaced by a modern style structure completed in 1965. The precinct was built around Derby Road and concentrated dozens of new shops, offices and flats, creating a centre of gravity for the surrounding area. In contrast to the likes of Roby Hall, which was built by John Williamson, the mayor of Liverpool in 1761, these houses were occupied by merchants and industrialists – hop merchants, sugar magnates and owners of copper and paint works (ibid).

"I wasn't a drug dealer, I didn't sell drugs," he says.

West Derby was the only more valuable township in the region. The donors of these gifts would have expected returns in the form of benefits to their sould after death. It covers both towns, and takes in everything from landscape history of families. The townfield (see above) survived in some shape until Huyton was fully built up. And the Dutch police have the Liverpool gangs as one of their top targets. Huyton railway station, formerly called Huyton Gate, is served by regular City Line services to and from Liverpool, St. Helens, Wigan and further afield. Until quite recently I had no idea I even had ancestors from there. My husband and I celebrate our Golden Wedding on Sat 5th Oct 2013. Huyton is located just west of the M57 motorway which marks its border.

I’ve not been able to find Pennington Cottages myself, but I’ve noticed that several cottages have their names marked on the old Ordnance Survey map from around the right time. The area is host to Huyton Library (Civic Way) and before 2014 was also served by Page Moss Library (Stockbridge Lane).

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