Greasby House Names of the '40s and '50s

Greasby House Names of the '40s and '50s

Today, houses are usually built in groups or ‘estates’ and are assigned numbers before they are built.  In previous times houses were built individually and were named for identification – they would only be assigned a number when the Post Office decided the road was ready.  If it appeared to the Post Office that more houses were likely to be built in a particular road then numbering was postponed.  When the gaps had been filled with new built houses, and the road was considered complete, numbers were allocated.

Kelly’s 1946 Liverpool Street Directory has been consulted for this project along with the 1955 Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map SJ28NE.

Both the directory and the map show some houses with provisional numbers but these did not become the final numbers.  Greasby Road was numbered but was re-numbered at an unknown date, probably around 1962 e.g. the business at nº 275 was re-numbered to become nº 231.

The 1946 Directory shows over 200 named houses in Greasby.  A couple of those properties have been demolished, possibly with a new house built on the land, but most properties are still in place.  Of those houses still standing only 35 display their original names – sometimes permanently inscribed into a gatepost, sometimes as a smart sign near the front door.

For a full list of Greasby house names of the '40s and '50s click one of these links -

List of house names with front cover     DRAFT 3

List of house names - print friendly        DRAFT 3

Those are drafts.  Some premises are shown in red; these
premises need clarification before the final version.