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Woodchurch Lane, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 9PD

The 11 thousand volt transformer to the left, the big grey finned thing, and the fuses board to the right. When the light around Singleton avenue go out watch out for the local engineers rushing in to sort things out. It is worth pointing out that it is pretty easy to get killed in these places as the conductors are not shielded. Touch one and flash bang, gone.

Anonymous brick building housing the sparks for the borough. Inside a plaque commemorating the area electrification in 1924.

Inside Singleton 33kV substation is this plaque: This sub-station completing the high tension ring main round the borough was opened by couincillor J W Collins ESQ. Chairman of the electricity committee September 4th 1924

At the corner of Storeton Road and Prenton Road West. The hall to the right was built first in 1889; the church itself followed in 1909, but was not completed until later. The architect for both was T.W. Cubbon.

This school was built on Woodchurch Road, Oxton on the site of ‘Heathley', the home of Mr Joseph Bell Topham, the main benefactor of St Joseph's Parish. He was descended from one of the oldest and best known Catholic families in Cheshire and offered the private chapel at his house for Mass prior to the building of the first church. St Joseph's foundation stone was laid in 1899, the land at the junction of Willow Bank and North Road having been purchased and then donated by him to the parish of St Joseph’s for the building of a church and presbytery.

The site is at the junction of Storeton Road and Prenton Road West, on the border of what was the County Borough of Birkenhead at the end of the 19th century. In 1901 this formed the terminus of an electric tram route from the centre of town. This was the original church building but is now the church hall, and a new church was built to the left Image