St. Johns Church Brasenose Road Bootle

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ourmaud
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Hi, i am looking for any info about the above church which was demolished after bomb damage, where are the records now located etc. Also anything about St. John and St James, Monfa Road -demolished in 2007.
Jan
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Hi Ourmaud,

Welcome to the site,

The records for St John's Brasenose Road are at Liverpool Records Office, in the temporary library in the museum in William Brown Street.

This is from their on line catalogue.

No 283 JBT
Title St John's Church, Bootle
Date 1827-1962
Description The collection comprises - Baptism registers, 1864 - 1942, Marriage registers, 1866 - 1945, Banns registers, 1940 - 1945.
AdminHistory St John's '... Bootle's second oldest Anglican church' was licensed for the performance of Divine Service in June 1864. It was consecrated in November 1865 and assigned a parochial district in February 1866. The church stood on a site flanked by Brasenose Road and St. John's Road. During the Second World War St. John's church suffered from bomb damage to the extent that it had to be demolished. By order in Council its benefice was merged with that of St. Mary, Bootle in 1979 (see 283 BOO)
Extent 10 volumes
RelatedMaterial Records of St. Mary's Church, Bootle.
AccessConditions Access will be granted to any accredited reader.

Also the records for St James are at Liverpool.

282 JMB St. James Roman Catholic Church, Bootle 1845-1964

Consisting of baptisms and marriage records.

Jan
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ourmaud
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Thanks very much for the quick reply!Just researching some family history and St. John,s was mentioned so will be looking into it further now :D
Jan
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Hi Ourmaud,

What years are you looking for for St John's?, there are some St John's registeres on the ancestry.co.uk website and a few other Bootle church records, they only go up to 1906 though.

Jan
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PETER CRAIG
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ourmaud wrote:Hi, i am looking for any info about the above church which was demolished after bomb damage, where are the records now located etc. Also anything about St. John and St James, Monfa Road -demolished in 2007.
Welcome to the Bootle forum ourmaud,
Peter.
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Dan
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I'm not sure, but I think St John's is the church on the left of the picture, which was taken July 1936.
Brasenose Road is on the left, then St John's Road.
Further up ,on St John's Road, is the first St Alexander's church.

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The street immediately behind the long rectangular British Ropes building, in the centre of the photo, is Hotspur Street.The next street is Glendower.
Just go through Shakespeare for the rest of the street names.
You can see the bridge over the railway, that had the really steep steps, leading down to the Glen.
The end house on St John's Road, on the lhs nearest to the camera, was Mrs Grogan's shop (in the 60s).

St John, Brasenose Rd., Bootle, L20 8HT
St John is located at OS Grid Reference - SJ 341941 .
This grid reference points to the church being in Ceres Street. But there's no church in the photo at this map reference.
Est 1827 - demolished after bomb damage.
Source: Liverpool Record Office

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Map of area covered.

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Regards

Dan
ourmaud
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Thanks Jan, Peter and Dan
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Bootle Times December 21 1945

The closure of St John's Church on Advent Sunday, December 2 1945.

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Bootle Times January 18 1946.

Memories of the church stretching back as far as the 1890's.

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