The Old Roan Estate, From The Start.
My mum and dad were the first people in the Old Roan estate in 1936, living in 18 Bradfield Ave. The cost of the house? It was a through room, and cost £425! The houses with a front and a rear room cost £450! And if you were very well off, then you might have been able to afford one of the houses on Ormskirk Road, at a cost of £475.00, wow! All the houses on the Old Roan were built by Sammy Bleasedale, and he gave all the houses on the left of Altway, from Bradfield Ave to Winchester Ave, to his wife, and she rented them out. She was later killed in the Henderson's fire in Church Street, Liverpool in the early 1960s. Their son Colin Bleasedale formed the Sefton Building Co. and this was sited on the land were the Old Roan British Legion is today, the Legion being a large tin hut on the site of B&Q. The only shops at the Old Roan were the ones on the service road alongside Ormskirk Road. Where the other shops are now were part of Martlands Farm! I can remember walking through fields to go to school at Aintree Davenhill, newly built, when I was 5 in 1953. Anyone else with any memories?
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Thank you for sharing this. I would like to know more of Aintree Village in the 1800s to 1860s. This is because my great, great, great grandfather Henry Mercer and his sons Henry and Thomas were living here at around that time, and a grandson Henry and other children. Old Henry had a farm of 22 acres and he and his sons were living at Harrowsmith's House in 1841 -1851. The Old Roan Inn was then run by James Rossal with his wife Ann, and his seventy-five year old mother Dorothy was living with them. They employed five servants, two of them aged around ten, the others 35, 20, and one girl, 14. They probably did good business when the the race course was running (from 1829). There were several old houses in Aintree at the time, and I would love to see photos or paintings of any if there are any.
Comment from Beryl Wagstaff on Monday, 31st January 2011.