Queen's Road L6

A Memory of Everton.

This was my grandparents home for many years and I visited it many times with my dad. My recollections of it were firstly, the size of the house! In it's heyday, it was considered posh and my grandparents employed a maid. The house had bells to press in most of the rooms to summon the maid. There was one in the bathroom and I was terrified of pressing it in case a bogie man jumped out at me !! There was also a large cellar, but wild horses wouldn't have dragged me down there!!
My grandfather was the first Manager of the Everton Palace cinema and was also an impresario, meeting, amongst other stars of the day, the first Knight of the music hall, Sir Harry Lauder who stayed at the house when appearing in local theatres. He recalled Sir Harry travelling to the Argyle theatre in Birkenhead by underground train, wearing his famous kilt! That was something of a surprise for the locals, many of whom had never seen a kilt.
Sadly, after the second war, the area became somewhat Bohemian and the grand houses of old were turning into flats and as a result of this, Queen's Road lost its 'posh' tag somewhat. I didn't really appreciate this wonderful house until it was demolished in the late 60s and was sad to see the area so rundown when I revisited it.
Still, better precious memories than none at all.

---

---