Post by BereniceUK on Apr 5, 2017 19:32:01 GMT
I was told that Hands Street, off Catherine Street, was named after W. H. Hands, who was killed at Spion Kop, South Africa, in January 1900.
He was born c.1873, in Coventry, and in the 1891 census his residence was given as Holy Trinity, Coventry. In 1896 he was married at St Mary's Church, Bootle, and the time of his death was living at 16, Surrey Street, off Hawthorne Road, Bootle.
The area around where Hands Street is now was mostly fields in 1893, streets such as Catherine Street, Hands Street, and Lily Road didn't exist. Violet Road was an unmade, and unnamed, track which linked Linacre Road to Akenside Street. I came across a reference, in an issue of the Bootle Times, March 1900, which made reference to the council waiting for work to be completed in Violet Road. So it may be that the information I was given re. Hands Street is correct, and it was named so in memory of William Hands.
The photo below shows Hands Street as it is now, but there was originally early-20th century housing there.
He was born c.1873, in Coventry, and in the 1891 census his residence was given as Holy Trinity, Coventry. In 1896 he was married at St Mary's Church, Bootle, and the time of his death was living at 16, Surrey Street, off Hawthorne Road, Bootle.
The area around where Hands Street is now was mostly fields in 1893, streets such as Catherine Street, Hands Street, and Lily Road didn't exist. Violet Road was an unmade, and unnamed, track which linked Linacre Road to Akenside Street. I came across a reference, in an issue of the Bootle Times, March 1900, which made reference to the council waiting for work to be completed in Violet Road. So it may be that the information I was given re. Hands Street is correct, and it was named so in memory of William Hands.
The photo below shows Hands Street as it is now, but there was originally early-20th century housing there.