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[Alan]

When I lived in St Helens we referred to the area just to the north of Knowsley Road - Dodd Avenue, Ellison Drive etc as being Newtown. A fairly small area of mainly pre-war or immediate post-war semi-detached houses that seemed posh to us who lived in streets of terraced housing. Reading another thread on Newtown, it seems the area also now embraces all those streets that lie to the north of Liverpool Road including Boundary Road etc. Is there an accepted boundary definition of Newtown?

[Olliebeak]

I was always told that Newtown was the area contained between Rivington Road/Knowsley Road/Boundary Road/Horace Street. My great-grandparents lived in Grafton Street and then Exeter Street.

[antonio111]

I thought the same as Ollie, Alan, I think your memory is playing tricks as Dodd Ave, Ellison Drive are predominantly council houses built about 1928, are you perhaps thinking of Windsor Rd, bottom end of Mulberry Ave, St Lukes Rd, St Teresas Rd?

[Dave]

Ollie is right. The 'Newtown' was just outside the boundary of the 'old town' (the clue being in Boundary Road).

[Alan]

antonio111, on 31 January 2012 - 06:08 PM, said:

I thought the same as Ollie, Alan, I think your memory is playing tricks as Dodd Ave, Ellison Drive are predominantly council houses built about 1928,

I figured a bit later than that but I know they're council houses. As I said, to us from Harris Street they always seemed posh, probably because they had front gardens

[SKYMAN]

Yes the Grafton St area and ST TERESAS CHURCH is Newtown
this includes the estate you mentioned that was built in late twenties /early thirties
when Green Bank ended its days most of the people were housed there,my wifes parents
went to Dodd Avenue,the avenues were named after Councilors of the time,

[oller]

I think Ollie is right. I lived in Devon St (next to the Exeter St she mentioned)

[dibuzz]

My dad lived in Devon Streeet and called it Newtown

[Phyll]

One of my best friends lived in Sidney Street, all that area was Newtown.

[Olliebeak]

Link to the Newtown, St.Helens website. On the Homepage, the site owner (Jeff) gives a description of the Newtown area that coincides with what I always believed. However, he does say that he's open to correction on the point.