53 Vulcan Street, Birkenhead

[celia]

Kath
Vulcan street is so small you can just about see it on the street map there is also a Vulcan Close nearby So that usualy means the road has been chopped up .
It is on the right. The map maker must have known it would be hard to find because there is a little arrow pionting to it.The map might be a bit blurred after cropping because the street name is so small. Flaybrick is on the Left

Celia

[Melagbe]

Hi Kath

if you look at the map, look at the round about go right along the yellow road, and just before the L you should see Vulcan Street.

Here's the details of whose in Flaybrick Cemetery
Section 11 grave no 155

9 May 1896 Thomas Hill aged 19
19 Feb 1898 Robert Davies aged 65
31 Jul 1911 Edmund Lewis Davies aged 9m
19 Jun 1916 Fanny Davies aged 77
23 Jan 1917 Charles Davies aged 39
5 Sept 1932 Mary Esther Davies aged 69.

Hope that helps you

Mel

[kathb]

Celia and Mel, thank you both very much this information has really helped.
Mel, I will PM you re: the Davies Family
Kathb

[kathb]

Neptune, thank you for your help
Kathb

[Jackie464]

Hi - Vulcan Street shows up clearly on Flash Earth and there is nothing there now except what looks like a commercial premises  of some kind.  Vulcan and Laird street were extensively bombed in 1943 with many fatalities, I think the area was mostly rebuilt after that - Jackie

[purlin]

i think vulcan st. was off laird st. birkenhead

[suerm]

Hi Kath
  My mother and members of her family lived either in Tollemache road or in the surrounding streets prior to the bombings in the second world war. One evening (sorry - I don't have a date, although its written somewhere) the legendary lord hawhaw (german propaganda) announced that the streets of birkenhead would flow with blood in his description it was around the St James area he was referring to. That night my father, who was dating my mother was walking her home after having to be in the airraid shelter. My mother remembers the devastation to this day. She even remembers a young lady who had been working in the munitions factory and had returned home to sleep. At the time there had been a number of false alarms leading up to the bombing so instead of going to the airraid shelter she chose to stay in bed. They found her bed some distance away hanging from some sort of pole or street light and the rest of her spread around about. The whole area was devastated and not rebuilt exactly as it had been before - hence the postwar maps show a discrepency in some of the streets. It would not surprise me if the building you are looking for was one of those bombed during this time. A number of houses were not rebuilt. Families were eventually rehoused in new housing in the late 40's early 50's.  I hope this helps. My mother is still alive but now lives in Tasmania.

[kathb]

Hi, Sue, thanks for this information.  My mother used to speak of the bombings and I remember her telling me about a house in the same area where the whole house was lost.  All that was left was the staircase with a table below on which stood a cut glass bowl.  The bowl survived but the occupants all died.
Regards
Kathb