DIRECTORY.] LIVERPOOL. BIRKENBEAD. 795 .

\Vallasey dispensary, Liscard road, was fonnded in :r83o for place. There are a number of beautiful residences and supplying the necessitous poor with medical advice and atten­ marine villas, occupied by Liverpool men of business, and tion, patients being recommended by subscribers. Robert during the summer months the town attracts a nmnber Charles de Grey Vyner esq. of Bidston, John Shaw Leigh of visitors, by the facilities it offers for bathing and its esq. the trustees of the late Mr. Richard 8mith, and superior class of apartments, besides several excellent hotels. Mr. Mainwaring are the chief landowners. The area of On the Perch Rock is a battery mounting eighteen guns of the Local Board district, consisting of three townships, IS:­ thirty-two pounds each, and further out to sea is a lighthouse, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, 8go acres; Liscard (including New erected on the model of the Eddystone. Here also is a pier Brighton), 981 acres; Wallasey, 1,595 acres; total, 3,4o6 from which a ferr.v crosses the Mersey to Liverpool. The acres. The entire rateable value is £177,612 and the Palace and Winter Garden and Pavilion Theatre of Varie­ population in 1891 was 33,229. The population of Liscard ties, on the Parade, and built in :r882, is open from Eastel' in 1891 was 16,323 until the end of October. The projecting rocks on the shore,. Sexton, John Roberts. called the "Red and Yellow Noses," are said to have con­ PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, tained large caverns frequented by smugglers, bnt these Liscard road.-Frank Roberts, postmaster. Letters from have now for many years been filled up by the sand. all parts arnve from Liverpool about 6.30 & n.3o a.m. The Convalescent Home for women and children, in & 1.30 & 5 p.m.; snndays, 7 a.m. ; despatched at 4.30, Rowson street, contains 100 beds, and is supported by 9·45 & n.15 a.m.; 2.15, 4·I5, 8 & 9 p.m.; sundays, voluntary contributions and patients' fees. The trustees of 4 a.m. & 5.15 p.m the late Mrs. Maddocks and the representatives of the late PosT & M. 0. & T. 0. & Saving Bank (Little Brighton).­ Rev. Mr. Mainwaring are the principal landowners. The J. Walker, postmaster. Letters for all parts through soil is sandy and the subsoil is rock. The area of New LiYerpool dispatched at 4· 30, 9·45 & I 1.15 a. m.; 2. :15, Brighton ward is 331 acres; rateable value £33,919 ; and 4· 15, 8 & 9 p.m. ; sundays, 4 a. m. & 5· 15 p.m of Upper Brighton ward 2:14 acres; rateable value £,r5,o84; PUBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:- the population in 18gr was, of the former, 4,366 and of the Liscard Battery, Ma~zine lane, Bombardier William latter, 3,022. The population of the ecclesiastical parisb Kitchen R.A. in charge was 7•574 Wallasey Public Weighing Machine, Liscard village, David Sexton, Henry Britt. Scott, keeper PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & lnsuranee Office. Fever Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mill lane, A. Craig­ -James Tbeckston, postmaster, Victoria road. Letters mile, medical officer; Miss A. M. Whit.field, matron from all parts via Liverpool are delivered at 7 a. m. ; Wallasey Dispensary, Liscard road, Gilbert H. Gritnths 12.30, 2.30 & 5 p.m. ; sundays, 7· 15 a.m. & are dispatched M.R.c.s., L.R.C.P.Lond. resident surgeon at 4.3o, ro & 11 a.m. ; 2, 4, 8 & 9 p.m. ; sundays, 4 a. m. Wallasey Cemetery, Rake lane, William Danger, clerk to & 5-I5 p.m the burial board ; Francis Mackie, sexton SuB-PosT OFFICE, Albion street.-Miss Mary Jane Jones,. ScHooLs:- sub-postmistress. Dispatch, 9·45 & :10-45 a. m. ; 1.45, 4 Wallasey Free Grammar School is in Withens lane, the & 8 p.m.; sundays, 5· 15 p.m earliest mention of which is in 1595, has an endowment PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- amounting to about £165 yearly; it was opened as a Coast Guard Station, Ralph Winstanley, station officer middle-class school August 7th, 1876. Albert J. Mead, Convalescent Home, Rowson street, Miss Mary Forster,. B.A. Lond. head master lady superintendent St. James' National, Magazine lane, built in 183o, for 270 County Police Station, Hope street, William Skitt, sergeant. children; average attendance, 210; Albert Price, master Fire Station, 62 Victoria road S'b. Mary's, built in 188o, for 620 children ; average attend­ Life Boat Station, The Shore, James Whittle, coxswain ance, 400; William Wood, master; Miss Mary White­ Light House, John Francis, keeper burst, mistress :New BrightBirkenhead, in the Wirral division of the county of then half-hourly till 10.30 p.m. which is the last bus from Chester, lower division of the hundred of Wirral, union and New Brighton county court district of Birkenhead, petty sessional divisian From Upper Brighton to Seat-ombe: Tram-8 a. m. & of Wirral, rural deanery of Birkenhead and archdeaconry every 10 minutes till 9.30 a. m. every 15 minutes till4.30 and diocese of Chester. New Brighton and Upper Brighton p.m. then every ro minutes till 6.30, every 15 minutes form two of the eight wards within the dtstrict of the till 9.3op.m. then 10 & II p. m. ; sun days, :10.30 & n.30 Wallasey Local Board, who supply the gas and water. The a.m. ; 1 p.m. & quarter-hourly till ro p.m ecclesiastical parish of St. James was formed Oct. 15, r861, Railway Station, George Henry Robinson, station master from the parish of Wallasey: the church, erected at a cost & goods agent of £7,000 and consecrated July, 1856, is a building of stone in the Early English style from designs by the late Sir NEW FERRY is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1888 G. Gilbert Scott R.A. architeL-t, consisting of chancel, cleres­ from Lower Bebington, and is also a steamboat station on the toried nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, north and south Mersey, nearly opposite to Liverpool; it is pleasantly porches and a tower at the north-east angle with lofty oc­ situated on the main road from Birkenhead to Chester, z tagonal spire containing a clock and one bell : most of the miles south from Birkenhead and close to Bebingron station windows are stained: in 1891 a new organ was erected at a on the London and North Western and Great Western joint. cost of £830: and during the year 1892 the church was railway, in the township and local board district of Lower entirely new-roofed, at a cost of between £4oo and £soo : Bebington, Wirral division of the county of Chester, lower there are goo sittings. The register dates from 1856. The division of the hundred of Wirral, petty sessional division living is a vicarage, net yearly value £420, with residence, ~~ond union of Wirral, county court district of Birkenhead, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 188g by the rural deanery of ~·irral and archdeaconry and diocese of Rev. Charles Henry Hylton-Stewart M.A. of St. Catharine's Chester. New Ferry is lighted with gas and supplied with College, Cambridge, and surrOJate. The Mission church of water by the Birkenhead Corporation. There is a well-built the Good Shepherd in Victoria road and that in Seabauk road iron pier, about 856 feet long, including the landing stage,. are both in eonnection with the parish church. The Catholic from which steamboats ply to and from Liverpool. church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul and built in t88o, The church of St. Mark the Evangelist, in theNew Chester affords 300 sittings. Thet·e is a W esleyan chapel, built in 1870 road, erected in 1867, at the cost of £3,500, is a fine build­ and seating soo, and Wesleyan and Congregational mission ing of red sandstone, in the Early English style, consisting rooms. 'l'his now populous place owes its origiq to the late of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south porch lames Atherton, a merchant of Liverpool, who bought 1.27 and a western turret containing one bell ; tbe whole of the acres of sand hills here for the purpose of forming a watering windows are stained, and there are 6oo sittings. The registers