1.    Where was the first Speke public library located?
2.    What was the name of the first newsagents shop located on the "Old Estate"?
3.    Who was "Sally" and what did she sell from her cart at the end of Western Avenue?
4.    What was the name of the aircraft factory located on Dunlop Road during WW2?
5.    What was the surname of the married couple who acted as scout master and cub        mistress at All Saints Church during the 1950's?
6.    What did the "Giant Tyres" refer to?
7.    What was the name given to the woods at the end of Western Avenue?
8.    What was the name of the rubber company located in Speke?
9.    Who was the headmaster at Stocktonwood Road School during 1948?
10.   What was referred to as "Tin Town" by all of the corpy bus conductors?
11.   Where was the fire station located?
12.   Where was the "Smithy"?
13.   Where was the old Corpy Rent Office?
14.   Where was the first police station located?
15.   Who was the owner operator of the first "chippy" in Speke?
16.   What was the name of the first greengrocers shop located in the "Crescent"?
17.   What is the name of the first pub to locate in Speke?

18.   What was the number of the first express bus service from Speke to Liverpool?
19.   Where was the first bus terminus located in Speke?
20.   Who was J.F.O.S.Graham?
21.   Where and what was "Berties"?
22.   Where and what was "Nursalls"?
23.   Where was the first post office located?

24.   What was the surname of the Headmistress at Stocktonwood Road School during the 1940's?

25.    Name the Pubs on the south side of Speke.

26.    Name the two primary schools on the South side.
27.    Name the secondary schools.
28.    Name the road that runs down to Oglet shore from Hale Road.
29.    What where the flats around the back of the Alderfield Drive shops
          locally known as ?

30.    Name the Headmaster of St Ambrose Junior school in the early 70's.

31.    Name the Headmistress of the St Ambrose Primary school in the early
         70's.
32.    Where was the doctors and dentists surgery in the sth end of
          Speke?
33.    Which buses ran from the Eastern avenue terminus and where did they
          go?
34.    Which buses ran through Speke from Wooleyback land....and where did they
          go?

35.    What was the name of the bus company that ran these buses

36.    What was the name of the little store on the side of St Ambrose social
         club
37.     Where is St. Ambrose church located ?
38.    Which type of flowers did Speke kids sell every summer and where did they
          get them from ?

39.    What was the name of the Social Club behind the flats on the Corner of
          LittleHeath Road and Central Way?

 

Answers
Thanks to Vinny Edwards for some of the questions posed.
______________________________

If you would like to add Speke questions to our board please send them to us at ;

earlgroup2002@yahoo.ca