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The history of Teulon Street
By Phil Dewhurst This site contains nearly 200 photographs
This site was last up-dated on the 21st July 2022
Paul Davison Phil Dewhurst and Tommy Dewhurst circa 1968
House numbers 68 66 and 64 ...Our car outside number 62
Teulon Street was a terraced street in Walton* in Liverpool.
It was built in 1873.
During the blitz half the street was flattened.
In 1951 Teulon Street primary school was built on the bomb site of Teulon Street and Kendrick Street.
The infants school was built in 1967.
It was named after Samuel Sanders Teulon, a gothic architect 1812-1873.
Teulon Street was demolished in 1975.
*Always thought of as being in Walton technically the street was in Kirkdale
Samuel Sanders Teulon
All the immediate streets were named after well known Architects.
Pugin, Cockerell and Barry
1851
Teulon Street ( as yet not built ) is marked in red. The Sandstone Quarry would have stood where Luton Grove met Florence Street.
A joke that ran for many years was that when they knocked down the lunatic asylum they just moved all the inmates into the new houses opposite
1874
This map was published in 1874 although it was already out of date as Teulon Street had been built in 1873. This map now shows Stanley park
The church is where the Bronte cottage would have stood
1906
This site starts with all references to Teulon Street from the Liverpool Mercury newspaper from 1873 to 1900
The Battle of Waterloo
This medal sold for over £6000 when auctioned
1900 Names and occupations
Top of Teulon St 1966
Teulon Street / Walton Lane, looking towards Goodison 1966
Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
This photograph from the 1950's was taken from the top of Teulon Street.
You can see the same damaged brickwork as in the previous photograph
Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
Walton Lane 1950's. The Street sign in this picture was of Cockerell Street.
Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
Teulon Street and William Shakespeare
Liverpool Echo 1914-1918
THE VICTORIA CROSS
There have only ever been 1,355 Victoria Crosses issued.
To have a Victoria Cross winner from Teulon Street in itself is brilliant. But to have one who was born in the same house as you were born in!
Also to see his name with the likes of Bromhead and Hook from Rourke's Drift... Yet another Teulon Street hero.
This memorial was unveiled in the garden of The Church of Our lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool. On 19th May 2017 on the 100th anniversary of Albert Whites death
There were 7 casualties from WW1 for Teulon Street listed here...It is more likely to be double that number as street names were not always added to records.
Richard Davison was living at 47 Teulon Street when he was killed. It appears that J Faulkner
moved into this address sometime later and was also killed approximately 2 years later.
This aerial photo from 1928 has Teulon Street highlighted in red
The palm house has now been refurbished
This close up clearly shows Kendrick Street....What is unusual is that the houses heading up the street on the Kendrick side are a lot larger than the 2 up 2 down houses opposite.
Some of Liverpool Mercury articles refer to cellars, although i don't recall any Teulon Street houses with cellars.
5th April 1933
Taken outside 33 Teulon Street about 1933
The wedding of Jimmy and Lily Williams
featuring Richard Pearson Lloyd, Elizabeth Lloyd and Eric Lloyd
1938 Kelly's street directory
I have left in the anomalies eg 2 house number 2 s
Below are Newspaper reports from various local newspapers from 1939 to 1945.
I have kept these separate from anything to do with the war as there is a whole section concerning Teulon Street and the second world war after these
4th January 1939
5th January 1939
3rd August 1939
24th August 1939
2
24th January 1940
1st February 1940
20th May 1940
6th 7th and 8th June 1940
13th January 1941
18th February 1941
15th September 1941
26th November 1941
10th December 1941
10th January 1942
13th January 1942
27th May 1942
16th June 1942
22nd July 1942
20th July 1944
14th August 1944
18th September 1944
17th September 1945
World War II
This picture below shows Mr Henry Griffith and son Henry Griffith jnr emerging from number 70 Teulon Street, although the text wrongly suggests this is from Salop Street.
This would have been staged shortly after the event ( I have highlighted the union jack )
John ( Jock ) Bryce
Rowland Hargreaves was on board the
M V Serbino when it was torpedoed and sunk
on 21st October 1941 by U-boat 82
The sinking of the RMS Laconia
12th September 1942
There have been books written, and a film made about what happened to the Laconia, but this incident would have been forgotten about had it not been for the Nuremberg trials in 1946. An American laywer for the prosecution questioned Admiral Donitz as to why U boats left sailors from torpedoed ships to drown.
To the embarrassment of the USA the Laconia tale was told
At number 68 Teulon Street lived John Nice ( pronounced Niece) who was a merchant seaman on board the troop ship Laconia when it was sunk by U 156 while en route from Cape Town.
There were 2732 people on board ( mainly Italian POWs). The U boat captain proceeded to help the survivors and sent a broadcast to all radio frequencies telling of his plans and a large red cross was displayed from the U boat. Other U boats came to help. Over the next few days their decks were filled with survivors and tow ropes were attached to life rafts while they awaited the arrival of a Vichy French ship to take survivors.
An American B-24 liberator bomber attacked the U boats, killing survivors.
The U boats captains now put everyone back in the lifeboats and submerged
Standing in the centre of this picture on board U 506 is John Nice
Picture taken on board Laconia of one of the guns Position when sunk
John was eventually taken on board the french Vichy ship 'Gloire' and was taken prisoner of war to a detention camp in Mediouna (near Casablanca) in Morocco. This camp was liberated when the Americans liberated Morocco about 10 weeks later.
All 3 of the ships on this discharge book page were all sunk by U boats
John had previously been torpedoed and sunk on the M V Accra off the coast of Ireland
The M V Stork was sunk 2 weeks after john was discharged, losing 19 of her 22 crew.
The letters D E M S, ( see discharge book ) stood for defensively equipped merchant ship.
John would have been trained to man the guns when the ship was being attacked
John Lloyd
On the 29th October 1942 the M V Abosso was enroute to Liverpool from Cape Town when she was met by U575. Two torpedoes were fired.
There were only 31 survivors from a total of 361 on board.
But now, because of what had happened with the Laconia the U boats no longer helped.
M V Abosso
This was placed in the Liverpool Echo on the 28th of August 1944
A person fitting Johns description with amnesia was reported being at Whiston hospital. Johns mum had to take three buses to get there only to find that it was not her son
D Day landings 6th June 1944
Albert Taylor took part in the D Day landings.
5th Battalion, Liverpool Kings Regiment, 'A' company, 'D' platoon landed at Sword beach
He Married Flo Heeson of 43 Teulon Street and lived at that address after the war
"Hitler bombed our chippy"
The 1938 directory shows 83 Teulon Street as a chip shop.
I have recently found on a web site called 'Toffeeweb' an account about a player called T G Jones by Eric Owen
Eric was born in 1928 and lived in the chippy. He has lived in Canada since 1957
As i write this now it is exactly 75 years to the day that Hitler bombed the chippy
1940 1945
An old Pugin Street neighbour has told me that this area was known as
-The bombin's-
and when cleared played host to football matches that went on for hours and hours, with scores that would be in the 30's or 40's
Whenever we played in derelict houses we always referred to them as a
'bombdies'. I suppose this was passed down from when kids played in empty houses 25 years earlier that had been bomb damaged
These aerial photographs from 1946 shows rows of air-raid shelters in
Teulon Street as well as in all the surrounding streets
A Teulon Street day out from around 1950/51.
Robbie Williams has been mentioned as being on the back row
Pamela Fagan ( front row 4th from the left ) with her mother nearly behind her
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Pam Fagan outside
32 Teulon Street
Pam and Jimmy Fagan in the backyard of 32 Teulon Street
1950's
Lily Williams and Pam Fagin. Teulon Street about 1950
In 1951 Teulon Street County Primary school was built and opened, with Miss Craven as headmistress
2 x aerial photographs from 1955
Teulon Street school
Kenny Fox Mavis Fox Lynn Murphy Lily Taylor Tommy Tripp and John Cotton circa 1961
This map from 1953 showing the school when it was known as
Walton Lane County Primary School.
Also in this picture can be seen the Victory cinema.
Curiously in Pugin Street can be seen one solitary corner shop ( No 72 ) which was knocked down shortly after the school was built
Mrs Steinle ( on the right ) who i believe changed her name to Wainwright to avoid 'anti-German' hostility. The other woman looks like Mrs Brown who had the shop diagonally opposite. The dog is Fido from Number 70
1950's Kids in Stanley Park
Teulon Street 1953 C0ronation party
4 Daisy Fagan ( nee Lloyd ) 5 Robert Williams 7 Jim Fagan 8 Jim Fagan jnr 39 Lily Williams 40 Grace Dickinson 23 Tommy Dickinson 30 Lila McKay
25 Mr Nice 24 Mrs Nice 29 Pamela Fagan 45 Sarah Fox 43 Jimmy Murphy
13 Mr Rogerson 37 Mrs Rogerson 41 Dora McEvoy 28 Margaret Murray
1 Elaine Dickinson 6 Brian Neary 7 Keith Neary 12 Tony Cruikshank 13 Celia Cruikshank 15 Ann Small 16 Billy Nice 17 Ron Nice 19 Robbie Williams
22 Billy Powell 25 Albert Taylor or Peter Mckenna 27 Dave Rogerson 28 Jimmy Murphy 29 Jim Fagan 30 Joseph Fagan 31 Mrs Neary 33 Mrs Butler 39 Margaret Cruikshank
41 Mrs Henry 46 Ivy Walker
Two never been seen before photos. I will try and add names to faces in the near future
The even numbered houses were rounded above the doors while the odd numbers up to the coal yard were straight. But after the coal yard all were rounded
10 Teulon Street 19 Teulon Street
Courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library. Liverpool
Celia Cruikshank outside her house at number 3 Teulon Street
Wearing St Johns ambulance uniform 1958
Pic 1 and 2 showing Ann Cotton. Pic 3: John Cotton and girl called Julie
who emigrated to Australia. Bottom pics: John with Mavis Fox
Albie Taylor and mum Flo circa 1958/59
Ian Kirkwood
1963 May Queen
Taken by Jimmy Murphy..May Queen is his daughter Lynn Murphy (front girl) with Lily Taylor and Pamela Goldsmith..small boy is Philip Murphy while the boy with sunglasses is Ronny Goldsmith...Mavis Fox appears to be collecting door to door for the May Queen
( at number 46 )
A pram in the background is outside number 62, where i was born in 1962.
Any names typed in red means that i am not certain who it is
This map from the early 1960's appears to show a playground detached from the school, which i don't remember but which is borne out by the previous photo ( see railings in background )
Teulon Street 1970..The shops to the left of Rigbys are still there and were built on the sight of what was the Victory cinema.
Rigbys was demolished about 1972
Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
The Victory cinema with Rigbys next door...The Pacific pub can also be seen
Snapped by Jimmy Murphy, Mrs Dewhurst walking up the street 1960's
Agnes Kirkwood and Flo Taylor on Flo's step ( number 43 )
Lily Taylor
Kenny Fox, Tommy Tripp, Mavis Fox, Lynn Murphy and John Cotton.
The houses in the background are the handfull of houses left at the top of the street after the blitz. When the school playground was extended and fenced off to include part of Pugin Street it effectively split Teulon Street into two separate streets.
Mavis Fox and Lily Taylor. Florence Street in background
May 1968 School trip to Colomendy ( Probably on top of Moel Famau )
Jimmy Hickey Leslie Croxton Alan Poole Kevin Moran Joan Howarth Linda Parry
Vaughan Owen Anne Rainford Joyce Turner Heather McCreadie Clinton Parker
The photo below shows Les Croxton, Joan Howarth and possibly Denise Richmond
Pamela Goldsmith David Dewhurst Kenny Fox and Margaret Fox outside their house
( number 61 ) circa 1966
Albie's vicious dog Sherrie who would bite anyone
Lily Taylor Kenny Fox Mavis Fox
plus others and dog REX
Possibly Tommy Dewhurst , Tommy Tripp with others circa 1966
John Cotton and Colin Tripp circa 1966
Lynn and Philip Murphy with Brian, David and Eddie Kirkwood circa 1965
Brian Kirkwood, David Dewhurst plus others
Harry Dewhurst and Ian Kirkwood outside Tommy Tripps house (No 41)
This house was above the coal yard. You can see the stairs immediately behind the door
Tommy Tripp Ronnie Jamieson David Dewhurst with Tommy Dewhurst David Kirkwood and Brian Kirkwood on the floor
To be verified
John Cotton
Sharon Hall ( Churnet Street)
Sunday School trip to Frodsham
Many Teulon Street faces, Agnes Kirkwood (holding David) Flo Taylor, Margaret Davison and sister (with Neil and Elaine on knee) Phil Dewhurst and unknown girl on mums knee, Tommy Dewhurst (ice cream) Paul Davison (left) David Dewhurst Tommy Tripp and Eddie (or Brian) Kirkwood front, plus others
F A Cup final 1966
Carol Goldsmith Pamela Goldsmith Ronnie Goldsmith Kenny Fox and Angela Goldsmith
Harry Dewhurst David Dewhurst
Phil Dewhurst Neil Davison Paul Davison 1965/66
All the Dewhurst's together. Butlins 1967
John and Susan Murray of Nith Street visiting their aunt Lily Howlett at 55 Teulon Street
circa 1965
Bill Murray, Linda Mace, John, Diane and Susan Murray visiting Lily Howlett
circa 1967
This photograph was taken by Jimmy Murphy in 1968.
The Morris Minor is outside number 55 and belonged to John Howlett.
Kevin Moran, David Dewhurst, Tommy Tripp and Alan Poole ( Wyatt Street ) 1966. Phil Dewhurst in background by large wooden gates that stretched the width of the street. These were for access to build the infants school which was completed in 1967
I am not a lover of colourized photos, but have had a play with these two pictures
1967.
The infants school being built. The motor bike and side-car was Tommy Tripps.
Rob Williams with son Jonathon visiting Lil and Jim Williams of number 33
This picture appears to have been taken from number 33 door step
School football team taken around 1966/67
My class was the last to wear this kit in 1973.
It was changed midway thought term to black and green stripes, black shorts and green socks ( Coventry City away strip at that time )
Ian Kirkwood in E Type jag
Paul Davison David Kirkwood Ian Kirkwood (hidden) Phil Dewhurst
on on on on Brian Kirkwood Tommy Tripp Tommy Dewhurst David Dewhurst
( Note window cleaner in background )
1967
A Teulon Street school day out to Chester z00. Early 1960's.
Back row Steven Dunbar ? ? Kevin Moran Steven Webb ? Ian Kerr David Elms
Phil Parker Kenny Smith Neil Donnelly Justin Mooney
Front row centre is Carol Dickinson
Nell Dewhurst with Peter Hall 1966
This colour photograph shows the old wooden temporary railing behind the new spiked metal railing...These new railing took about 5 seconds to climb over.
Phil Dewhurst Tommy Dewhurst Harry Dewhurst Lynn Murphy Tommy Tripp
Paul Davison. The woman looks like Paul Davison's mum.
Photo taken by Jimmy Murphy
L to R Paul Davison Ian Kirkwood Tommy Dewhurst Colin Tripp Neil Davison Lynn Murphy Phil Dewhurst Elaine Davison
Mr Redmond ( teacher ) with Glenys Caulfield Isle of Man 1968
From the same school trip: Wayne Booth Pauline Bennett and Alan Poole
Miss Thornton's infants class 1968
Irene Poole 4th from left at the back, Philip Hayes, end left, back
Harry Clarke Pamela Aspinwall Shirley Fleming Jennifer Durgan Tommy McKay
Photo also taken from around 1968,
I think some of the names may be Stephen Saunderson ( end left ), Paul Pryor, Craig Jones,
Alun Bradshaw and Colin Turtle ( between the speccy kids )
Classroom photo 1968
Tommy McKay Pamela Aspinwall Harry Clarke ( Irene Poole in background )
Phil Dewhurst, Colin Tripp and David Kirkwood circa 1971
Teulon Street kids in Stanley park. Colin Tripp Brian Kirkwood Lynn Murphy David Kirkwood Phil Dewhurst Tommy Dewhurst in Everton away kits circa 1971
In June 1971 my own class went to Colomendy. This is the postcard which i made and sent home. My grammar is slightly better now.....( we 'at' to stay in ) and ( 'are' instead of 'our' )
Even Mr Veight's name is spelt wrong although i had probably never seen it written
Me waving from dormitory. The 'food is bad' comes from our first meal of curry and rice from a packet. I had never had curry before or rice so it didn't go down well. Other memories are of having a fight with Reggie Seddon ( he battered me ) and of learning to open my eyes underwater in the pool. ( Miss Halsted, bikini, say no more )
Teulon Street houses were 2 up 2 down, but most had some sort of wooden lean-to shed or kitchen added to them..Harry Dewhurst in our small wooden kitchen
1970's Mum and dad in kitchen
This picture of the bottom of Teulon Steet was taken in 1970 and was one of hundreds taken by the City engineers dept regarding a 'compulsary purchase order' for Teulon Street and surrounding streets for future demolision
This was now the beginning of the end for Teulon Street
Now when people moved, their houses were boarded up
Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Central Library, Liverpool
Some time around 1972 a film crew set up a camera on our door step.
A few days later the footage was shown on 'Look North'.
As film of Tommy Tripp walking up the street holding a bag of chips was played the announcer said
"The dirty scruffy streets of Liverpool"
In 1973 it was announced that Miss Craven would be retiring as headmistress.
A collection was made and a Cat Stevens LP was bought for her, with 'Morning has broken' being played in the hall.
A special book was made for her retirement.
Photographs of all the classes, as well as examples of some of their work was presented to her when she left. She retired to Somerset, taking the book with her.
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