tarboat's photos with the keyword: heads

The houses on Rossett Road in Crosby nearly all had carved heads over the doorways when first built. Whilst some have been obliterated over the years, there are still eighteen survivors. The image is laid out with those on the north-west side of the road in order at the top with the south-east side in order at the bottom. Best viewed large .

There is a terrace of four houses, numbers 228-234 Greenacres Road, Oldham, that was built in the early 1870s as Cambrian Terrace. Over the door of each house is a stone head and associated decorative work which is really attractive and eyecatching. I wonder why this was not done more often, and whether they were meant to be specific characters?