Come and find out what The Oxton Society has achieved over the past year, and help shape our future plans. We are holding our Annual General Meeting in November where we will review the year and hear from our guest speaker Dan Longman of Wirral Borough Council. We...

The Xmas Lights switch-on will take place on Saturday 22nd November from 3.30pm to 6.00pm. All the usual attractions including Entertainment, Choirs, Street-food, Santa's Grotto Please will you help to finance this year's Xmas Lights. Installation of the lights and...

  Open Door, a mental health charity based in Birkenhead, has sent a thank you to Oxton residents for raising over £10,000 from this year's Secret Gardens. This year a total of £33,850 was raised and distributed between Open Door, The Woodecraft Folk-Wirral,...

On Saturday,14th June, a blue plaque was unveiled at 13 South Bank, Oxton. It was to celebrate Sir Peter Shepheard (1913-2002) who was born in this cottage and lived here, with his family, until he graduated from Liverpool School of Architecture in 1936. The unveiling...

    This year’s Secret Gardens was another huge success for the Oxton village community. The chief organisers Kirsty Cotton and Lisa Stafford, deserve huge praise for putting on an event that utilises nearly 200 volunteers, sponsors, entertainers, artists, food hubs...

The new programme of Oxton History Walks is now underway. Please click here for details

  After years of delay the application to develop the Ashton House site in Village Rd has finally been approved. The original house was constructed in the first half of the 19th century, and was since used as a hospital for many years. Permission has been granted...

There is a defibrillator machine inthe center of Oxton. It is located in Oxton Willows. https://maps.app.goo.gl/P1mfZjDWtrLxiC9YA   In the event of an emergency always call 999 first. Only after that call should you seek out a defibrillator device if instructed...

  Congratulations to the Oxton History Society who were recently awarded the prestigious Wirral Horn Award. This award is given annual by the Wirral History and Heritage Association to an individual or organisation who had made an exceptional contribution to the field...

Oxton came out in force to start our Xmas celebrations with the switch-on of our Xmas Lights. A big thank you to the happy throngs of neighbours who sampled a delicious range of street food and drink, applauded our wonderful entertainers and visited Santa’s Grotto…
(Images used with kind permission of Alla Barkova)