This is the south half of a detailed plan of Liverpool published in 1890. It is incredibly detailed, showing every road name, paths within the parks, and even individual buildings in some streets (where those buildings were big enough). The book includes brand new photography, as well as images from the 1980s and 90s to give context. (And because, it pains me to say, those are now decades themselves part of history…) Landscape history in archive photographs Today, Water Street remains a hub of commerce, culture, and finance in Liverpool. Elegant buildings house financial institutions and cultural organisations, and, of course, the blend of old-world charm and modern commerce is pretty cool. 9. Forthlin Road There are literally a billion books containing archive photographs of Liverpool. I’ve reviewed some of the best (and some of the worst) on here. I judge the books by their cover, and also by their content, and most importantly by the captions on the images. As to the discrepancy between the date when your road was built, this could either be because my publication date is slightly out, or that the mapmaker knew what was being built in that area, and/or that the record for when your road was built counts the date at which all buildings were complete, increasing the chances that the mapmaker could see the new road plans several years before, perhaps when they’re being laid out.

The Williamson Tunnel excavators are almost all retired men, Liverpudlians with enough time and curiosity to devote to the project. Younger men, says Stapledon, ask to volunteer now and again, but they usually move on after a few weeks. “They don’t have the stamina we do,” he jokes. Liverpool's seven streets were Bank Street (now Water Street), Castle Street, Chapel Street, Dale Street, Juggler Street (now High Street), Moor Street (now Tithebarn Street) and Whiteacre Street (now Old Hall Street). Thanks for your comments. Yes, the ingenuity, not to mention the work rate, of the Victorians never ceases to amaze me. I think the fact that Edge Hill is around a station just spurred them on even more at the height of the Industrial Revolution, when Liverpool wanted to be the transport hub of Britain.Most of these photos were taken in Liverpool but some were taken in other parts of the region such as New Brighton. This area, the historic former home of the Hartley’s Jam empire, has been called Liverpool’s Port Sunlight.

However, Liverpool is a city with history around every corner and the place we now call home has come a long way since it was founded in the 13th century. A self service selection of facsimile street maps of Liverpool and large scale Ordnance Survey maps is now available. Liverpool districts and streets Or old pictures of the overhead railway line that once graced the waterfront. The stunning images are just a tiny glimpse of the wider collection. You didn’t think I would write an entire Liverpool post without spending a good chunk of it writing about the Beatles, did you? There were clusters of walkways around the city– including around Old Hall Street and St Johns Shopping Centre. And that 1971 Daily Post report said: “Eventually walkways will be used for open air exhibitions, displays and even open air cafes”. * What went wrong?And it went on: “It was once a planner’s dream, an idea explained in models and maps. But suddenly Liverpool is stepping into the promised age of the traffic-free shopping centre.” On a summer day in 2001, Coe and a small band of investigators literally “broke into” a suspected tunnel in the Paddington area of Edge Hill. With the help of a digger, they made a small hole in the roof of what turned out to be an old cellar: the upper level of one of the tunnel systems.