A favourite of mine was the view out of the fifth floor of the second Adelphi Hotel. It looks south west down Ranelagh Street and you can make out Central Station. There’s the faint outline of the Customs House (that place again!) and, according to the caption, Birkenhead. (Perhaps that’s easier to see on the full size negative.) Signing up is free and it only takes a minute for you to get the best stories, sent straight to your inbox. 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.

Most of these photos were taken in Liverpool but some were taken in other parts of the region such as New Brighton. After years of planning, that bridge appeared overnight in James Street in September 1970 and opened the following year.There’s also The Grapes pub, where The Beatles used to drink between sets. It’s one of my favourite places in the city! 4. Penny Lane At the end of the decade people are pictured crowding into stores on Church Street at Christmas time, and inside the Mardi Gras on Mount Pleasant couples do the Twist on the dance floor.

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. But you don’t need to do that right now, as Hugh Hollinghurst has put together a neat little collection published by Amberley. Old photographs of Liverpool It is a remarkable and unique photographic record of Britain over 110 years of change that is also a wonderful resource for local and social historians as well as genealogists or anyone compiling their family history. 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). Estate plans, such as the Molyneux Muniments of 1769 – 90, are copies of the originals in the Lancashire Record Office and include such areas as Croxteth, Fazakerley, Toxteth Park and West Derby.If you recognise anyone in the photos or have memories you would like to share, please do let us know in the comments below. This is a map of all the old streets of Liverpool within the boundary of Queens Drive (plus a few helpful extra roads at the far north and south). By ‘old’, I mean it shows the streets as they were before vast swathes were demolished in the first half of the 20th century. Therefore it should be a great help in tracing where your ancestors lived and/or worked. For example, you can look up the Welsh streets of Toxteth, many of the courts of Everton, and even the inner parts of the more recent suburbs in West Derby. 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. 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.

While some of Liverpool's most impressive and historic buildings have been lost over the years, so has its streets. Finally (I told you William Brown Street has a lot to see!) let’s not forget Wellington’s Column, towering above the city skyline and paying tribute to the Duke of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo. 6. Hope Street If you've been on a night out in Liverpool, chances are you ladies have hobbled over these cobbles on your way to Concert Square.

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Other photos show ground-based scenes. There’s a busy intersection on the Strand in one. Little more than the stanchions which held the rails up remaining in another. (This allows Hollinghurst to date that particular image to 1957). History of Liverpool in eight chapters During his lifetime Francis Frith himself had a steadfast belief in making photographs available to the greatest number of people, and we are delighted that the wonderful selection of nostalgic historical photographs in The Francis Frith Collection will now be seen and enjoyed by people all over the world on Find My Past." Nearby, St. George’s Hall stands as Liverpool’s own example of Greek Revival architecture, hosting concerts, and events, and even being used as a filming location. You may recognise it from the John Lennon biopic, “ Nowhere Boy”.