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P 86 - Bidston St. Oswald Parish - 17th century-21st century

1 - Registers and Services

2 - Ecclesiastical Administration

3 - Parish Affairs

1 - Vestry Minutes and Parochial Church Council (PCC) Minutes

2 - Churchwardens' Accounts and Parochial Church Council (PCC) Accounts

3 - Charities

4 - Church Buildings

5 - Churchyard

1 - Sentence of Consecration of Addition to Churchyard - 4 Oct 1854

2 - Account of William Rimmer for repairing churchyard wall - 28 Feb 1863

3 - Faculty - 27 Jan 1866

4 - Gift (Certified Copy) - 12-Oct-11

5 - Faculty - 13-Jun-12

6 - Certificate of Consecration of Addition to Churchyard - 27-Jul-13

7 - Accounts of Messrs. Gamon, Farmer & Co. relating to conveyance and consecration of additional churchyard - 1912-1913

8 - Letter (incomplete) relating to rights of parishioners living within the Borough of Birkenhead but in the parish of Bidston, to be buried in the churchyard - 27-Apr-28

9 - Letters from Martins Bank Limited relating to Alice Plummer's legacy of £25 upon trust to apply the yearly income from it to the upkeep of the churchyard - Dec-34

10 - Correspondence relating to collision of a Crosville bus with the churchyard wall, and subsequent repairs - Mar-Apr 1939

11 - Letters from Layton & Co. of Liverpool, solicitors, relating to Belinda Maude Fisher's legacy of £25 for the upkeep of the graves of her parents, John and Emma Godwin - Mar-May 1947

12 - Agreement between the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and the British Transport Commission for fixing a direction sign to Bidston Station on the churchyard wall - 14 May 1952

13 - War Memorial

1 - Pen and ink, pencil, and water colour sketches showing proposed war memorial and surroundings - 1919-1920

2 - Water colour sketch showing planting of ground surrounding war memorial - Nov-20

3 - Subscription list and appeal for further subscriptions - 1921

4 - Copy letter from War Memorial Committee on progress of memorial, with list of subscribers - 1921

14 - Flaybrick Hill Cemetery

15 - Order in Council that no new burial grounds shall be opened in Birkenhead - 1857-1902

7 - Parochial Statistics

9 - Papers and Correspondence

4 - Civil Affairs

5 - Publications and Memorabilia

7 - Schools