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Fulwood Park, Toxteth Park
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Kev
I've been dying to have a gander down here for a while, small when you compare it to the Grassendale Park area but very impressive:
Any history on the area would be appreciated :PDT11
Nice photos. Historically of course this area is not in Aigburth but rather Toxteth Park. For location on Toxeth.net web site see:
http://toxteth.net/maps/liverpool/lpool8g.htm
Fulwood Park is in the Parish of St Michael in the Hamlet, Toxteth Park, the southern boundary of which run through Otterspool Park along what was the old stream coming out of Sefton park and which divided the townships of Toxteth Park and Garston. Aigburth being a district within the township of Garston, not Toxteth Park.
You'll recall the fuss in the press when the council put up an Aigburth district sign marking the start of Aigburth near Jericho lane. Local political pressure caused the sign to be removed !!! We live in L17 they said along Riverside Drive, we must live in Aigburth !!
The history of Fulwood Park is well covered in Robert Griffiths' "The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxteth, Liverpool" recently re published by the Liverpool Record office. The freehold land was purchased in 1808 by a William Bunnell from Lord Sefton who owned Toxteth Park. In 1840, William Bunnell's executors laid out the land that was to become Fulwood Park as building plots with the proviso that any houses constructed should not cost less than £1500 and must not be higher than 2 storeys.
Fulwood Park, Toxteth in 1870
Thank you for posting these photos! I have a huge mystery in my family that revolves around one of the houses in Fulwood Park back in the 1870s. I think it's either 54 or 34--I can't read the writing in the 1871 census that well to see whether it's a 5 or a 3.
Anyway, my great grandmother and great great aunt worked as nursemaids in that house for a family called Wrigley. The Wrigleys were well-to-do, had several house servants and a coachman and a gardener.... My great grandmother married my great grandfather (who might have been the the Wrigleys' gardener) in 1871 in St. Michaels Toxteth in 1870; they moved to Oswaldtwistle shortly thereafter. My great great aunt stayed on with the Wrigleys--she died in 1873, just a few years later, of pleurisy pneumonia in a Nurses Home in Dover Street, Liverpool.
I've pieced all of this information together from ancestry.com because I had no family history passed down to me. I wondered if any of you are aware of any history of that area that's been written? My great grandmother and her sister were from Switzerland and I am really curious how they ended up working for a family in Liverpool.
I know it's a long shot posting on here but thought I'd try anyway as I've just about exhausted all the genealogical lists.
Valerie
Fulwood House, Aigburth Road, Toxteth Park
Hello,
Does anyone know where Fulwood House is on Aigburth Road. On the 1891 census it was a convalescent home for children.
Thanks,
Linda
