Wye Street

Hi Ken, I was born in Chambers Street and then moved into 93 Wye Street. Ilived there until they knocked it down in the clearance 1971. Funny thing was there is now a Health Center in it`s place. I was sent for Physio on a damaged shoulder there and the physio`s office was where our front room used to be. Very spooky looking out of his window towards the sweet shop over the road in Mere Lane [now looks like private accomodation] I am into Ancestry now and all my Relatives and my Wifes Families were from Everton going back four generations. My Grandads brother died in WW1 and i have been searching for a war memorial of some sort in Everton, I found that St Alphonsis in Kirkdale Road did have three wall plaques in there with all the soldiers from the Everton parish named on. This church is long gone now. I have since been told by the Catholic Cathedral archivist that these plaques are in the Cathedral archives gathering dust. This was before Coviid took hold, I had e-mailed The Cathedral Dean and also the Parish Preist a lot without reply. I was hoping to get these Memorials from the Cathedral and into an Everton Church were they belong. Is there any way you could help with this project with your connections. I have photo`s of the plaques which i can e-mail to you. Hope you can help in some way. Glynn Hewitson.

The last tenant of the Beacon Light was Ann(e) Stocks who lived in 67 Louisa Street.

A pity there's no photo of the Dunbar's shop, which was on the corner of Wye St. and Beacon Lane, directly opposite the pub. I think they were Scots and their son, Aynsley became a famous rock drummer who was in the bands of Jeff Beck and Frank Zappa, and was also in Jefferson Starship for a while. He was involved with a variety of other bands and has lived in California for a number of years. I lived in 77 Louisa Street and knew him a little before he left for London around 1963.

Wye Street and the Beacon Light pub off Beacon Lane.

I lived at 25 Louisa street. Each Sunday mum would escort me and sister Ruth to the end of Wye street by the Woodbine grocery shop shown in your picture. On crossing the road we attended St Domingo city mission ( on I think Heyworth road )where we attended Sunday school and the evening gospel service, no play on Sundays in our best clothes! Does anybody have memory pictures of the mission? Strange how some memory names stay with you, you were welcomed at the door of the mission by Mr Brandreth, who seemed a very ancient gentleman to my four year old eyes!

This is Wye Street shortly after demolition. Thanks to Pete Mears for his memory observation on this. It ran down one side of Sir Thomas White Garden with Penrose Street on the north side. Visible in the background are Our Lady Immaculate school in Northumberland Terrace and one of the high rises in the Netherfield Rd area.

This photo shows the end of Wye St where it met Mere Lane in 1990 when the new houses were built.

A great shot of Wye Street.

Robert Issac commented on Netherfield Rd & Surrounding Area Facebook that the cement works on Wye Street always made so much noise.

Wye Street in 1967

Many happy memories of Wye Street as my Grandparents and Uncle lived there for many years along with my Aunt and Uncles who lived next door to each other. Backing on to their houses was "The Pit" where I spent so much time playing football and cricket along with playing in the playground which was a Health & Safety nightmare with concrete floors which caused serious injury if you fell of the swings. Further along Wye Street was of course the local picture house where, if you could afford the admission, you were transported into other worlds far removed from the austerity that existed within the streets of Everton.