Jim this is going to be a bit long winded, as I believe I can't upload an image here, but here goes, I have an old photo of the bridge spanning the Mersey on what I shall call the 'new' Chester road adjacent to Taylor street on the south side and Gainsborough road on the north side of the river, this photo was taken when the bridge and Chester road were both new about 1901, the photo was taken from the twelve arches railway bridge side, so looking under the bridge towards Walton Lock, on the left bank and in the distance is a large three storey property, could be a house, could be industrial perhaps a mill, I'm not sure, after consulting an OS map of 1877 this property has the front verging on the 'old' Chester road and the back facing on to the Old Quay Canal, what you have to remember is that what is now Greenall's avenue is all that remains of the original route of the Warrington to Chester road. The last terraced houses on this road before coming to the building I am attempting to identify was Leigh Villas, when the canal was excavated in this area in around 1891 these properties disappeared and the unkown building was roughly where RA Naylors timber yard wharf is. In my 'tinpot' way I thought if I could find who lived in Leigh Villas or even River View, Crossbrook View or Millbank Villa, then I could use the 'Next household facility' in the 1881 census to work my way along until I found it. Well! Jim that was the theory.
Unfortunately Andy could not provide me with a name that I could enter into the search facility of the 1881 census to get me into the census so that as I said previously I can search next household, perhaps it was me that did not provide sufficient information.
