ROSELEIGH Owners and Occupiers (continued):

1889-1925
James Bellhouse Gaskell (1848-1925) moved here from Hillcliff (see p.21) in the summer of 1889 - presumably because this was a bigger/newer ? house and the garden was nearly half an acre larger. He remained here to the time of his death. Between 1892 and 1899 Gaskell bought 2½acres of land in M.W. also over 3¾ acres in L.W. previously belonging to Gateacre Hall.

Between 1892 and 1904 Gateacre Hall was demolished and in the Liverpool Directory of 1914 is the first mention of an occupant of the Lodge to Roseleigh on Woolton Hill Road - Joseph Storey, the gardener there.

On 20th Sept. 1925 J.B. Gaskell died and was buried in Gateacre Chapel graveyard. He left £239,212.

1925-1929
during these years the house seems to have been empty.

1930-1934
Louis Nicholas, F.C.A. occupied - and owned ? the house. He was a chartered accountant with his main office at 19 Castle Street.

1935
during this year the house was empty again.

1936-1957
Charles Joseph Doyle, builder and contractor with an office at 15 Victoria Street and works in Old Swan lived here until his death in March 1957, leaving effects of £76,552.

We understand that in about 1958 Mrs F. Ebbs, director of Celebrated Ebbs Houses Ltd., of Forty Pits, Allerton divided the house into three parts.

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