6 Mere Lane a Hostel?

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10-11-2011
maggie

6 Mere Lane a Hostel?

Hello everyone

Would anyone be able to tell me whether No 6 Mere Lane, Liverpool was some kind of hostel? I've found a marriage that is connected to my ancestry (not direct line) that states 6 Mere Lane as one of the addresses, but since then I have found lots of people all living at 6 Mere Lane when they were married, especially
in the year 1893. OPC lists these and as I have no other reference to this address I am now wondering if
it was a hostel or maybe a boarding house of some kind.

Thanks
10-11-2011
Oudeis

I have found no direct information, but there is this...

http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.u...1/StreetsM.htm
10-11-2011
az_gila

Could 6 Mere Lane have been the old Harbreck House?

It seems to have had no family occupancy in the 1893 period you mention so might have been apartments/rentals/hostel at that time. The location seems correct. The building was bought by the Council in 1898 for a hospital office. It could have certainly housed a lot of families..:)

http://lostliverpool.blogspot.com/20...rs-family.html

Anyone got a 1893 map of the area?

MORE

This section from the link above -

Fullerton’s Plan of Liverpool and Birkenhead (1862) clearly shows the extent of
the property. It stretches in a triangular shape from Mere Lane to Beacon Lane.
The back of the property would have been where Breckfield Road would have
continued to Beacon Lane. The entrance to the grounds would have been where the
Mere Bank Public House is today.

- would seem to match with where Google maps puts 6 Mere Road today...:PDT11

http://g.co/maps/btvmp
10-11-2011
GeorgePorgie

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That number 6 will have gone well before 1927 as it was a park back then and possibly before then?

Wonder why it was demolished if it was a big house?

This is where it would have stood and there is no other pics of this area to date.

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10-11-2011
maggie

Hi all

Thanks for your replies.

Had a look at the links, I don't think it was Harbreck house, although I don't know anything about this house, the link says this was at Fazakerley. I don't know what kind of a house 6 Mere Lane was either just
trying to see what information is available on this address to see if I can find out why my person was there.

Replies much appreciated thank you
Maggie
10-11-2011
collegepudding

Wouldn't that be in the area of the old Mere Bank House. villa

collegpudding
10-12-2011
az_gila

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Originally Posted by collegepudding

Wouldn't that be in the area of the old Mere Bank House. villa

collegpudding

Mere Bank House (Pub) - yes - and that is across from the church that the link says the main entrance was opposite.

It's the funny shaped corner building on the Google map link earlier.
10-12-2011
GeorgePorgie

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Seems I posted a shot of the bottom of Mere Lane thinking no6 was at the bottom,sorry bout that.
However I rustled up two pics aquired from Ged,courtesy of Inacityliving site.....

These two depict the top end
click pics to enlarge.......

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10-12-2011
Ged

Thanks George, yes I was just about to say that starting at the Town Hall end of the street, No.6 would have been near the top.
10-12-2011
GeorgePorgie

Cannot understand why those ones on Mere Lane got demolished,considering that adjoining streets were left standing and habitable.
Those houses where quite sturdy and better built as they were the posher houses as opposed to the workingmans house in the same area.
10-12-2011
maggie

Good Morning everyone

Thanks guys, great pictures, - so I'm looking at the top end of the street then. Okay thanks. Now I have
to puzzle out why this is the only reference to this address we have.

Thanks again everyone
10-15-2011
az_gila

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ged

Thanks George, yes I was just about to say that starting at the Town Hall end of the street, No.6 would have been near the top.

But Google seems to put a moderm #6 at the bottom end.

Did the numbering system change over the years?

And what town hall when the street was first numbered?
10-15-2011
GeorgePorgie

Quote:

But Google seems to put a moderm #6 at the bottom end.

It doesn't,Az....the link you posted has no6 at the top end of Mere Lane ie opposite the Mere Bank pub.
10-17-2011
az_gila

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Originally Posted by GeorgePorgie

It doesn't,Az....the link you posted has no6 at the top end of Mere Lane ie opposite the Mere Bank pub.

Strange... when I click on it - and when I made the link - the Google marker is at the left end of Mere Lane and just before the big white building on the top side of Mere Lane. It is only 100 ft along Mere lane from the triangular pub.

Does the UK Google maps react differently?

The text description, as I read it, seems to imply the house was at the Pub end of the street...