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School records & Lime St address

By Horsley2016 |
General Genealogy

Dear all,

Next month, my dear Grandmother would have been 100. As she was the one who really drove my interest into life and family gone by, I'm giving a bit of time to trying to see if I can fill any gaps I still have in her timeline.

I don't live in Liverpool anyone, but I am considering the value in asking for someone to search schools records on my behalf. However, I wondered if, in your opinion, you all felt this would give me 'useful' and 'interesting' information. For example, are the copies of school reports or Teacher names etc? I know the names of the 2 schools and the rough dates.

Secondly - I know she worked in 1948 at 20 Lime St as she appears in the electoral register here. She used to say she did lots of hotel work in Lime St so I'm wildly assuming this to be a hotel. Does anyone know how I can find out what this address used to be?

Finally - does anyone happen to know if Sefton Park General Hospital would have any records stored somewhere relating to maternity records in 1953?

Any help & advice would be gratefully welcomed.
best wishes
Mx

Bertieone, thank you so very much. Looks like if I consider finding someone who could research at the Records Office for schools it would be worth looking up the hospital ones too.

Imperial Hotel! Just seen a photograph of it online too! Thank you very much. I know she also worked at the Adelphi and the North Western. I guess employee records just didn't remain? I'm also trying to find out more about her War work in Kirkby as she "made bombs for the RAF!" I know she dropped a shell on her toe which disfigured it so I'm assuming she wasn't in the high explosives section!! Frustrated that I can't find any records at all for this!

Thanks again Bertieone
Mx

ROF Kirkby; Filling Factory No. 7.
If you google the above you will find information, however, details on employees are likely held at the National Archives, if there are any?

I have previously tried, unsuccessfully to find records for the Kirkby ROF, sorry.

You say you have the names of two schools, are they on this list of records held by the Liverpool Record Office

https://www.lswlfhs.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/schools.html

Also Findmypast does have some records, worth giving more details of grandma? or even a two week free trial as you should be able to do a free search and see whether her name shows up down the list to make it worth while asking or checking yourself.

Thank you Mary,

I manage the basic FMP subscription and keep my 'tree' on Ancestry - though I find FMP's much easier to search through! I think I get frustrated / impatient as she had such a distinctive name (Primrose, though she preferred to call herself Rose / Rosie!) I thought I'd find everything!! How wrong can you be?! I know on 8 Aug 1932 (aged 9) she was at St Peters School, Sackville St (obviously not when she would have started) and was withdrawn on 13 Apr 1933. Her Mother married a Catholic and so she moved her to All Souls on Collingwood St!

Isn't it a shame those WW2 records weren't kept, especially with the roles women were deployed to do at home.

Best wishes
Mx

I missed your other enquiry about Sefton Park General Hospital records for 1953, I suspect they wouldn't be available due to the 100 year closure, but if they were at all then you would need to apply to the NHS.