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Bethel Welsh Presbyterian Church, Wavertree
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Originally Posted by
Howie
The Liverpool Welsh
Last updated: 07 January 2008
Professor D. Ben Rees writes about the people from Wales who moved to Liverpool and continue to contribute to life in the city today.
A great deal has been written on the Liverpool Welsh mostly in Welsh though Professor D. Ben Rees and Professor R. Merfyn Jones have illustrated the vast contribution of the Liverpool Welsh to the city and the nation of Wales. The monthly magazine in Welsh called
Angor is worth ordering for £7 a year, for it underlines the events that have happened and will happen.
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BBC - North East Wales History
Here's a photo of Rev Prof D Ben Rees's Church in Smithdown Place, Wavertree.
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Welsh Chapels in Garston, Liverpool
[QUOTE=Waterways;109012]1/3 of the churches in Toxteth were Welsh of some kind. Look at this big beauty. "Toxteth Cathedral". Rotting away:
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Here's another Welsh Chapel built in 1863 in Chapel Rd, Garston by the same architects of the Toxteth "cathedral", the Audsley brothers. This time on a simpler scale. Both churches belonged to what was to become known as the Presbyterian Church of Wales. They also built a mission room , Bethel, in Canterbury St, Garston. The latter building was demolished in the late 1940s.
Whilst there were many Welsh people in Garston in the mid 19th C, the growth of the Bibby's Copper Works on Blackburne St and later also the Crown Copper Works on Window Lane, led to a further influx of Welsh workers and their families.
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Welsh Copper Workers in Garston
Further to my earlier post about the John Bibby and Son Copper Works in Garston, here's an interesting gravestone in St Michael's Church, Garston. It marks the burial place of John Owens who died age 75 in 1896. He was born in North Wales and joined John Bibby and Son at their Seacombe copper works when it opened in 1836 at age 15. He stayed with John Bibby following their move to Garston in the mid 1860s. The works finally closed in the mid 1930s having been bought up and immediately closed by ICI metals.
The Welsh families were housed in Bankfield Cottages, now called Brunswick St. These are some of the oldest properties in the "under the bridge" area of Garston. Bankfield house recently demolished was the Copper manager's House. Both the cottages and house were built by John Bibby of Allerton for his key workers.