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The junction of Burrough's Gardens and Limekiln Lane in 1990 and 1993 respectively. Kingsway Court apartments built by Wimpey in 1993 stand on the site once occupied by 1950s built corporation flats.
Dingle images captured by Mr Dean and supplied to Dingle Renaissance by Margaret Henry. Also pictures taken by Roger O'Hara which can be seen with others by visiting:
The No.85 en route to Walton passes Mill St flats. Picture courtesy of Rob from the MTT collection, G.S. O'Brien.
Looking down Devonshire Place towards Clare Terrace from Torr Street off Netherfield Road North. Pics by Mike Murphy.
Russell Street flats front and back from Seymour Street to Clarence Street. Pictured by Mike Murphy.
Swindon Street from Commercial Road L5.
Petton st, off St. Domingo Road, Everton.
Grosvenor Street, Rose Hill, Chaucer Street and Juvenal Street, off Scotland Road L3.
Elm Grove and Albert Street off Crown Street, Liverpool 7.
Smithdown Lane, Grinfield Street (South Side) and Grinfield Street at its junction with Mason Street L7.
Kingslake Street and Woodside Street flats off the West end of Wavertree Road.
Great Crosshall Street South side and North side. Also a 60s view of it when the South side had 3 blocks before the Western end blocks were demolished to make way for the flyover.
The same flats as in the pictures above. This time adorned for a May Procession. Picture courtesy of Margaret Donnelly. Others of hers can be found by visiting
Green Street flats were converted to houses by removing their top floor and rearranging entrances, staircases and rooms.
Marybone flats with Adlington and Bispham House behind
Soho Street, leading into Springfield which in turn leads into Trinity Walk.
Everton Brow showing the Prince Alfred pub and the flats to its West which carried on into Watmough Street.
These are set back on Brunswick Road.
Just off Westminster Road.
Richmond Row flats after a facelift.
Kensington flats, around the corner from what was the Coach & Horses on Low Hill.
Silvester Street at its junction with St. Augustine Street. The top floors of these were 'lopped' to create bungalows. Also a shot of Bevington Hill and the Round counter cafe with the flats in the background.
John Bagot Close and Netherfield Road North.
York and Northumberland Terrace between St. Domingo Road and Netherfield Road North.
Trinity Walk and Springfield Street flats and maisonettes which backed onto Islington, the reason for the photograph taken by the council was to show the new road improvement scheme.
15-16b Grosvenor st block before the gardens were put in.
Gerard Close,at the bottom end of Gerard Crescent
Skirving Street off Great Homer Street looking West. Also Skirving place flats front and rear onto Scotland Road.
Boundary Street East looking West and then East.
Hardy Street and Gt George Street 1962. LRO.
Gt. George Street in 1976 by Springy.
Another view prior to the new housing at the foot of the Anglican Cathedral. Pic by NancyO.
Gt. George Street in 2007.
Gt. George Street door walls. Hardy Street and Grenville Street South looking North.
Grenville Street South looking South and Upper Pitt Street East side looking North and then the West side, looking South.
Two views of Ashwell Street flats off Parliament St, courtesy of Marky.
Hardy Street South side.
In the shadows of the cathedral. The back of Gt George St flats from Nelson St, taken by Steve Howe.
Northumberland Street. LRO.
Kingsley Road, Toxteth. LRO.
Stanley Road, Kirkdale and the continuation of the flats into Lemon Street.
Gerard Close, Hunter Street when newly completed in 1952. These formed the South end of Gerard Crescent.
Maisonettes and flats in the Allerton and Garston area as photographed by Mike Delamar.
Windsor Street looking North.
The Great Homer Street market area had many flats on Lower Arkwright and Anderson Street.
Netherley Flats off Brittage Brow.
Essex Street from Jan 05 and Lamport Street from Sept 04. These were situated between Mill Street and Park Road and were taken by Marky.
Rose Hill with the low level flats on the right.
Langsdale Street from William Henry Street.
These maisonettes are situated between Pleasant Street and Mount Pleasant, rather hidden away somewhat.
Wellington Road flats including those on Upchurch road and similar ones on High Park Street.
Virgil Street off Great Homer Street - 1990.
Parliament Street.
Stanhope St pictured by Marky.
Silvester Street off Scotland Road.
Park Road near Steble Street.
Virgil St/Cazneau st Junction. LRO.
Westminster Close/Rumney Road and Rumney Place, Kirkdale.
St. Domingo Road, Wye st area from Mere Lane and Albion Street, Everton.
Kirk Street off Netherfield Road North.
Mark St off St. Domingo Road and Netherfield Road North flats.
Vescock Street, Vauxhall with a 2nd view from Green Street.
Blenheim Street flats which just like their neighbours in Tatlock Street were lopped to create new housing.
New Red Rock View, Shallcross Street and Boundary Lane L6.
Ember Crescent off Breck Road and Kilshaw Street L6
Abingdon Grove, Walton.
These type of flats line both sides of Falkner St.
Greenheys Gardens and Fern Lodge on Lodge Lane
These flats are off Stonebridge Lane in the Dog & Gun area.
Upper Warwick street flats.
Salisbury Street flats and Carver Street off Canterbury Street which face onto Islington.
Burlington Street.
Smith Street, now demolished.
Smith Place.
Rollo Street and Lambeth Walk,part of the Easby Estate, pictured in 1990. These have now gone, see the dereliction section of the 'streets ahead' page for more on this estate.
Landseer Road, Everton. LRO.
Flats on Lower Breck Road, Cabbage Hall.
Belmont Road/Avon Street.
Chelsea Lea off Orrell Lane L9.
Moss Lane, Orrell Park.
These front onto Netherton Way facing the Giro.
Two sets of flats on Storrington Avenue. North side and South side.
Shadwell st, Vauxhall in 1990.
Rocky Lane on the North side of Newsham Park.
Gleave Square
An aerial view showing 1930s and 1950s flats within the Vauxhall boundary from Silvester st to Boundary st and Scotland rd to Vauxhall rd.
Birchfield Street 1992
Looking down Langy
Langsdale st North side
Four shots looking up Langy.
Flats off William Henry Street
Sixteen shots of Prince Edwin Walk being demolished in 1993, taken from a number of different angles. These were situated just off Prince Edwin Street facing S.t Gregory's School. All apart from 2 were taken by Joe Devine, the others being Mike Murphy and Myself (No.1 in 1990)
Lace St flats
Grosvenor St with mobile shop in the 80s
Netherton.
The Comus Street area with it's car showroom.
1) Flats at Lee Park Avenue, Gateacre/Netherley. 2) Flats at Knotty Ash on East Prescot Road. 3) Ancroft Road, Huyton - Pilch Lane area.
Dave Duff kindly furnished me with this set of 6 photographs he took in April 1995 around the time of the demolition of the maisonettes in the Seaforth District. Alexander, Churchill and Montgomery House heights can be seen in the shots.
Cantril farm in 1967. The only shop available for these residents is a mobile, a number of which were around the city in the 1960s and 70s. In 1983 Canny Farm (which had been tagged with the unwanted title of Canibal Farm) was renamed with the posh title 'Stockbridge Village'.
Highfield off Edge Lane drive in 1960 and how they look nearly half a century on, below.
Flats off Beechwood Road, Grassendale L19.
The Green - Liverpool 13. Situated at the north end of the rocket flyover on Queens Drive behind the Gardeners Arms pub, these 50s style flats surround a pleasant green just yards from the busy thoroughfare which can be negotiated via an adjacent subway.
The Athol Street area known locally as 'Over the bridge'. Taken from Logan Towers in 1982 by Ron Formby of the Scottie Press Vauxhall community newspaper. All of these flats were cleared and the new housing called 'Athol village' built during the 1990s.
Boundary Street flats with shops below as captured by Harry Ainscough on 23rd January 1967.
Flats situated on an angle off Brunswick Road taken in 1979. Arkwright Street as seen from Great Homer Street in July 1967. Maisonettes of this type were prevalent in this area around Arkwright Street, Lower Arkwright Street, Anderson Street and Buckingham Street. A football match is in full swing on the pitch off Canterbury Street as captured by Ron Formby in 1980. Maisonettes off Langsdale Street are caught in view.
Woodfarm Heys, Cantril Farm circa 1973/74 was emailed to me by Brian Halford who features in the 3 stars jumper along with his friend Vin Devine.
The new flats on Hughes Street L6 in 1956.
Little barn Hey maisonettes on the Buckley Hill housing estate, Netherton which has recently bitten the dust.
With thanks to Dave Duff.
The new flats off Park Road in 1961. One pictures shows the remains of some derelict but still trading shops. Another view shows a safe pedestrianised area with traffic bollards. A shot from Tupman Street and local kids using the facing wasteland as a makeshift playground.
Park Road 1961.
A horse and cart passes along Portland Place at the foot of Sackville Street, Everton. This photograph from the Shrewsbury House archives was kindly supplied by member, Samp.
Hughson Street, Toxteth as captured by Marky in 2004. These have since been demolished.
Upper Park Street flats off Park Road. There are so many single blocks of just 6 flats like this still around in Liverpool.
Storm clouds gather over Grosvenor Street in June 1992. This was taken from our front garden at No.16, Chaucer Street runs down between the two blocks to Scottie Road.
Freehold Street and Holland Street run between Prescot Road and Edge Grove in Fairfield. These blocks have had a revamp including security doors where there once was an square entrance hall.
Dingle flats from Mill View showing Laxey Street. Toxteth Tabernacle and Colemans fireproof depository are in the background. This was taken by Kevin Willcott who died tragically young aged just 21. It was given to his friend John Burns and it's with thanks to his sister Jo Perry for restoring the photo and supplying it here. A larger picture showing St. Georges school is on the sum skools page.
This housing on Malta Walk off Park Road, Liverpool 8 will sadly not enjoy any modernisation and is currently empty and surrounded by tins which can mean only one thing.
Another two views of Laxey Street as captured by Stepehen Burns in 1979 and supplied to me by his sister Jo Perry. First we are looking East towards Park Road as an Atlantean bus passes along the top.
Next, we are looking in the opposite direction towards the Mosley Arms on Mill Street.
Marie Farrington has kindly sent me this pic of her son, then aged 3, taken in 1981 in Sherborne Avenue, Halewood. These maisonettes have since been demolished.
Dingle girls in the 1950s with bomb sites gradually being used for new flats like the ones across the way. Coleman's fireproof depository can be seen across Park Road.
Canterbury Street flats in the Everton area of L3.
Maisonettes in the Arkwright Street area of Everton, looking South from the high rise on Conway Street. Pic courtesy of Dave Duff.
Some more of the Buckley Hill/Sefton Estate that was demolished in 2008. These photographs were kindly supplied to me by an ex resident, Colin McKeown.
Brittage Brow flats undergoing demolition in Netherley in 1982.
A little bit of everything here as we look down Chaucer Street from Grosvenor Street. For a few years this was practically the view from my front door though much diluted by the early 1990s. The shops on Scotland Road had fallen to the Kingsway tunnel development, Chaucer House tenements long since gone. Arden House in the distance a recent casualty back then, only the 1950s flats, one of which was our home were the only survivors but now even those are coming down (July 09) Back in the 60s, i'd gone to Bishop Goss school and the oblong playground which ran along the gable of St. Joseph's church acted perfectly as our footy pitch. One of the goal ends alas backed directly onto Chaucer Street and many a time the ball would go over and roll down towards Scottie, no good when you were needing to claw back a goal or two.
Park St in 1969.
Sefton View flats off Moss Lane, Litherland.
Wood Road and Marsden Road maisonettes, Halewood. Another find by Dave Duff.
As seen earlier on this page, the land between Scotland Road and Cazneau Street and Juvenal Street and Richmond Row contained a number of blocks of flats built in the 1950s. These have now been razed to the ground (11/10/09), this area now looking desolate and flat like this for the first time since when these flats were first getting built.
Looking Easterly from Comus Street up Rose Place towards Bishop Goss School and St. Joseph's presbytery. The main door of St. Josephs church (demolished in 1979 and which can be seen on the People and Places page) can be seen as can the original length of its wall.
Looking North towards Chaucer Street, the white building is the rear of the Denbigh Castle pub which is now a solicitors. This is the first time in about half a century that you would be able to view it from here as the flats on Grosvenor Street would have obscured the view. The presbytery is also seen here from Chaucer Street.
A closer view of the rear of the Denbigh Castle and Bishop Goss old seniors school. The 'oller' here once contained my old block which was 16 Grosvenor Street and pictured earlier on this page. The 2nd picture is looking South towards the city centre from Chaucer Street. Rose Hill, Comus Street and Peover Street blocks once existed here.
Wastelands now awaiting new housing whilst grassy wilderness has already taken over where the grey breeze block pensioners flats once existed on the corner of Juvenal Street and Grosvenor Street. This is a side on view of the gable end of St. Joseph's church wall which was left remaining and the school.
The grey breeze block structure was once part of the pensioners flats and was home to the sweet/groceries shop before becoming Kingfisher upholsterers. The blocks seen here have only one tenant remaining and are the rears of the only two blocks left which front onto Cazneau Street. Again, this is pretty much the only time these could have been viewed like this since they were built in the mid 1950s.
