Lost streets of Liverpool that have disappeared from the map

If you walk around Liverpool city center you will find traces of the way we used to live.

From ‘ghost signs’ of lost shops to a plaque outside Liverpool Crown Court showing where it once was. Like any modern city, Liverpool has had to adapt and grow over the years, meaning that some of its old streets have disappeared from the map.

Outside the city centre, in the 20th century, Everton saw some of the most significant redevelopment, resulting in uprooted communities and disappearing streets. Today, the only signs of some of these streets that remain are in the photographs and memories of those who lived there.

In 2022, the ECHO compiled a list of some of Liverpool’s lost streets, which we throw down below. This list gives just a small selection of streets that have either completely disappeared or are just a shadow of what they used to be. If you have memories of other vanished city streets that you’d like to share, please let us know in the comments below.

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Gloucester Street

Before Lime Street Station was extended, Gloucester Street ran from Lime Street to Copperas Hill. The above image, dated 1954, found in the Getty archives shows the view from Gloucester Street, looking down beyond St George’s Hall and into the heart of the city centre.

as this photo was taken in the mid-1950s, particularly following the Lime Street Gateway Project, which began after Liverpool’s 2008 European Capital of Culture year, saw the demolition of the old retail parade in front of the station.

The improved facade and the public square built in its place have seen the area completely transformed over the years. Gloucester Street itself was believed to have been built and named around 1814.

Fairy Street

Everton’s defunct Fairy Street was one of the classic steep streets of Netherfield Road that are still fondly remembered. Many of the terraced streets were demolished in the 1960s as part of the controversial slum clearance, although there are still references to Fairy Street in the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) until the mid-1980s.

Ken Rogers, author of the best-selling book Lost Tribe spoke about the lost streets of Everton to the Liverpool Echo in 2011. Ken said: “There is no doubt that many of the old houses were in desperate need of repair and even demolition. But almost everything was deleted. out – every street, every corner shop and most of the famous pubs that were all part of the community.”

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Fairy Street also suffered extensive damage during the May Blitz of 1941 during the Second World War. References to the street in the BNA date from the mid-19th century.

Manchester Street

Manchester Street, which ran past the entrance to the Queensway tunnel in Liverpool city centre, was once a popular street for shops and cafes. Before the tunnel was built, the street played a more prominent role, connecting Victoria Street with Dale Street.

After the construction of the Churchill Way flyover, Manchester Street became little more than the “dog’s leg” of a road that tapers back to Victoria Street. The passage has since been demolished and the lost Manchester Street is now part of the Old Haymarket.

Some of the street’s attractions over the years have included the X-rated Glamor Cinema Club, Shank’s Bar, Yates’s Wine Lodge, an entertainment hall and the Royal Tiger nightclub. On the corner of Victoria and Manchester Street was a shop called Game, which sold board games and accessories for fantasy role-playing games.

Hale Street

Hale Street was a narrow lane connecting Dale Street and Tithebarn Street (between Moorfields and Vernon Street). While technically a remnant of the street is still present downtown and can be found on Google Maps, it’s not the atmospheric side street it once was.

One of the most prominent buildings on the street was the Hale Street Warehouse, which was a group of former yard structures, built to allow smaller businesses to operate on the side streets and alleyways that turned onto Dale Street. The buildings were said to be reserved for those involved in manufacturing and craftsmen.

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Much of the original street has disappeared as a result of post-war development in the city centre. Fortunately, similar alleys such as Hackins Hey and Eberle Street have survived.

Everton Terrace

Everton Terrace was more like a series of multi-level streets interconnected by steep steps leading to rows of terraced houses. The photograph above, dated 5 May 1927, shows the entrance to the Netherfield Road terrace, which was demolished in the 1960s.

Following the clearance of the slums, some of the housing was replaced by high-rise apartments in the 1960s, such as the cluster of three-storey, 14-storey tower blocks nicknamed “The Pigs”. They were unpopular and soon fell into disrepair and were subsequently demolished in the 1980s.

The clearances radically transformed Everton’s landscape, opening up the environment that still presides over the city, with towering views of the docks and skyline from its hills. The land once occupied by Everton Terrace eventually made way for Everton Park, which was built in the 1980s.

Havelock “Mountain” Street

The mighty Havelock Street, once considered the steepest street in Liverpool, was an imposing stretch in the heart of Everton. The joke was that you needed an oxygen mask to make the ascent to one of Liverpool’s highest points, according to Ken Rodgers, author of the 2010 book Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road.

Everton ‘Mountain’ was such a vertical challenge that it needed a free-standing handrail to give local residents a chance to reach the top. Everton has its fair share of steep streets – but there was nothing like Havelock Street.

In the 1960s, the bulldozers took to the streets and the locals occupying the terraced houses in the neighborhood were scattered far and wide to random destinations around the city. These days the terraced houses that flanked Havelock Street have disappeared, along with all the others that swept out of Northumberland and Everton Terrace.

A steep path with wide steps replaces the old Havelock Street, which rises through the trees of Everton Park.

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