Stone Cottages / Teapot Row
Stone Cottages is plot 23 on the 1849 Tithe Map
Stone Cottages at the centre of Greasby village were known locally as 'Teapot Row'. Their date of construction is not known. They first appear on the 1849 Tithe Map.
Teapot Row - the seven doorways are to four cottages, a communal passageway to the
rear yard and two to the combined house and shop
1883 Slater's Directory
1900 Gore's Directory
1914 Kelly's Directory
1932 Auction of Frankby Hall Estate - Teapot Row
1932 Auction - Teapot Row - Mrs Dodd's shop.
1932 Auction Plan - Teapot Row (Stone Cottages)
four cottages Lots 21 to 24 and Mrs Dodd's grocery shop & land Lot 20
Teapot Row - no date - the grocery shop and four cottages. The dark building at far left
is the final Smithy. The white building is White Cottage, now Nº 70 Greasby Road.
1928 directory
A 1946 directory shows Mrs Edith Dodd at Nº 5 (the house belonging to the shop). The shop would not appear in this residential section of the directory.
1955 map - Stone Cottages Nº 5 and 6 were the combined house and shop
Stone Cottages were demolished c1961 to allow Greasby Road to be straightened and widened.
The terrace on the right of this photo is Jubilee Buildings, today housing a solicitor's, a take-away, a hairdresser's, etc.
The site of Stone Cottages is today covered by the tarmac of the 'new' course of Greasby Road. The old course is now a slip road opposite those businesses and is mainly used for parking by customers of the take-away.
The old course of Greasby Road is seen on the left of this photo. The road had bends to get past Stone Cottages. The terrace on the right is Jubilee Buildings, the first of which was the library and is now a solicitor's office. The demolition of Stone Cottages allowed the road to be straightened and widened. The 'new' course runs where these cars are parked.
Audio Mr Connolly.mp3This is a short audio clip of an interview with Mr Connolly who lived in Nº 2 Stone Cottages from birth in 1914 until 1941. The interview was part of Greasby library's Oral History Project.
Ms G M Northcott who lived at Nº 1 Stone Cottages (aka Teapot Row) between summer 1948 and December 1959. She was renowned locally as "the lady with all the dogs". She left aged 76 and moved to Meols.
During her time in Greasby she wrote a journal which was published c1962. Called 'Through a Wirral Cottage Window', it contains references to her four-roomed cottage such as that it had "outside sanitation and no hot water". The cottages "...stood flush with the street for one thing, which was very narrow just there, and three sets of buses continually swung past, just grazing my door steps". Also "...the village is quiet with the exception of buses dashing past, and they seem to go at a terrific pace and crash into my doorstep as they madly pass".
She visited Greasby in 1961 and noted "I loved my little cottage in Greasby and the road is still in exactly the same state as when they stood. No effort has been made, only the unsightly heaps of rubble, nothing to check the buses and cars that daily rush past".