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The latest series of Memory Lane is in major retailers including Asda, Tesco, Home Bargains and selected newsagents now. This series of the bumper picture special looks at fun in the sun - with stunning photographs and treasured memories of family holidays from years gone by. You can also buy Memory Lane online here. Bromborough Pool Village inspired William Lever to build his own model village at nearby Port Sunlight. A lot of people knew about the tunnels, but that was as far as it went – they just knew about them or heard about them,” explains Les Coe, an early member of the Friends of Williamson Tunnels (FoWT). “It was just left at that. But we decided to look for them.” The version available on Historic Liverpool is an adapted version of the original, with the wards colour-coded. This old map covers Toxteth to Princes Park (and includes a slice of Sefton Park on its eastern edge), shows areas of West Derby, including undeveloped streets to the north of Edge Lane, and covers the very centre of Liverpool. If you recognise anyone in the photos or have memories you would like to share, please do let us know in the comments below.

Lime Street is one of Liverpool’s most famous and well-known streets – and most of that is because of the train station here! It runs from the Mersey River to the Liverpool Town Hall, making it one of the main streets in the city. Many Liverpool walking tours and bus tours start here. It makes sense – this location is just gorgeous! Notable landmarks adorn Water Street, including the iconic Royal Liver Building with its famous Liver Birds, and the Port of Liverpool Building stands as another architectural gem. Our collection includes maps of specific areas of Liverpool, such as Childwall and Everton, as well as some plans of particular streets including: Other maps in this category include a German military map of West Derby during World War II, and a plan of James Okill’s land in Little Woolton in 1752, showing field names and land areas.In 1523 Sir William Molyneux erected a tithe barn to collect produce, received as tithes in Liverpool and Kirkdale. Paul and his family moved to 20 Forthlin Road when he was around 13 until he was famous! It was on this street that he honed his musical skills, collaborating with John Lennon and laying the foundation for his world-changing career. As well as the wide shots of historic landscapes, Liverpool includes interiors and details. There are high quality shots of windows in the Port of Liverpool Building, and carvings on the Cunard Building. Photos show lavish Edwardian interiors of the Cunard and White Star Buildings, including an office in the latter, beautifully neat with gorgeous brass lamps and elaborate ceiling mouldings.

The long gone Fairy Street in Everton was one of the classic steep streets off Netherfield Road that are still fondly remembered. Many of the streets full of terraced houses were demolished in the 1960s as part of the controversial slum clearances although there are still references to Fairy Street in the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) up until the mid-1980s. The walkways weren’t well used, meaning they became home to criminals, meaning they got even less busy. Which of the great and good of previous centuries might have looked out on this vista, waiting for their ship to come in? Trams and railways in old Liverpool Taking a photo with the Penny Lane street sign is a must-do whilst you’re here. If you’re also into the Beatles, head to the Penny Lane Development Trust, where you’ll find cool Beatles murals and a tiny collection of local Beatles memorabilia. The house called Mendips is located at 251 Menlove Avenue, and it’s still standing! It was bought by Lennon’s aunt Mimi in 1945 and was where John grew up, often playing guitar with Paul in the glass-panelled porch.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! William Brown Street is where you’ll find some of the most beautiful public buildings in the city. Named after a local benefactor, this street is a treasure trove of Liverpool landmarks and free museums. 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.

Open [Access] Archaeology, along with other initiatives under the ‘Open…’ banner, seeks to create data which is easy to share between researchers. Both amateurs and professionals alike will be accessible for years to come. The photos are in batches, so we see a couple charting the development of the Pier Head from the 1990s to today. We also see the Goree Piazzas from different angles, revealing the changing waterfront. There are explicit links between the captions, so this is much more than a scattershot ‘photo album’ approach.Hi Martin and anyone else who might be looking at the maps on this fascinating and very useful blog, 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. My name is Martin Greaney, and I did my undergraduate studies (BA Archaeology and Prehistory) at Sheffield Uni, and stayed there to do my MA in Landscape Archaeology. After completing this, I worked for English Heritage’s National Monuments Record (now the Historic England Archives), helping them put thousands of their records online. But that was all a long time ago now… Liverpool has a long and rich history, a snapshot of which is captured in these fascinating photographs from the 1950s. But many other streets in the city centre once had very different names, and here we've listed the fascinating - and sometimes gruesome - reasons why they changed.

Bennison, a finely engraved large scale map, covering as far as Walton and Woolton and showing the names of property owners. Falkner Street was originally known as Crabtree Lane, but was renamed Falkner Street in the early to mid 19th century after Edward Falkner, who is rumoured to have raised a thousand men in under one hour for the defence of the town when the French threatened to invade. 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. Leaving Liverpool city centre, let’s head to another famous Liverpool street with a Beatles connection: Penny Lane! 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.You’ll still feel the energy and passion of those iconic first performances as you explore because you’ll hear live music playing in nearly every single venue you pass! On one end of Hope Street stands the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. This modernist structure, completed in 1967, boasts a unique circular design, and its many stained glass windows make for a colourful interior. In 1979, the ECHO and the Daily Post reported that the bridge over The Strand was widely known as “mugger’s alley”. One official told the Post: “Three of our staff at the Cunard Building were mugged by half a dozen children who were expert at the job.” Read More Related Articles Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up here.

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