Historic Streets of Liverpool

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Paul Nixon, head of UK data licensing at Findmypast said: "One of the many joys of the Francis Frith collection is seeing how our villages, towns and cities have evolved over time.

The wonders of William Brown Street don’t end there! The World Museum is also on this street, offering exhibitions on natural history, archaeology, and world cultures. They even have a planetarium! While some of Liverpool's most impressive and historic buildings have been lost over the years, so has its streets.

Born into a Quaker family in 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Francis Frith founded his own photographic publishing company in 1860 with the aim of creating accurate and truthful depictions of as many cities, towns and villages as possible.

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 While Liverpool city centre continues to grow and adapt to the needs of a modern city, inevitably some of its old streets have disappeared off the map. Outside the city centre during the 20th century, Everton has seen some of the most prominent redevelopment, resulting in uprooted communities and vanished streets. Our collection includes maps of specific areas of Liverpool, such as Childwall and Everton, as well as some plans of particular streets including: It’s a partner to a South Sheet, also available on Historic Liverpool. There are also concentric circles showing distances from the Town Hall, each one quarter of a mile apart.

If you recognise anyone in the photos or have memories you would like to share, please do let us know in the comments below. A leader in the ECHO in December 1967 said: “The James Street walkway will be at least a promise that a day is coming when vehicles and walkers are no longer in thrombotic contention in the main arteries in the heart of Liverpool.” To capture some of these changes, we took a trip down memory lane and found photos in our archives that show the city in the 1930s right through to the 1990s. 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. This must have been one of the first post-Second World War maps of Liverpool to be published. This makes it interesting for historians for several reasons. A map of memories