Origin street names Edge Hill

[juno-liverpool]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how to find out about the origin of old street names in Edge Hill, the more unknown, small roads that is? I'm i.e. thinking of Juno St and Helena St: is there any connection to Roman mythology (just like in the area where you had Jupiter, Venus, Apollo St etc), or are they chosen because they are female first names, such as the surrounding Janet St, Winifred St etc? (There should be more of those!

Just wondering if any (council) records about such naming decisions exist?

J.

[purlin]

I think it was quite common for the house builders to submit Street and or Road names for their developments to the local council for approval.  The names themselves could have a personal or family significance/theme.

There may be information held at the Liverpool records Office.

[Blue70]

There's books that give the origins of some Liverpool street names but for most you would have to do your own detective work to try to find an explanation for the choice of name. For a lot of names you won't be able to find out why they were named so. A lot of the houses around Edge Hill look to have been built in the 1850s and 1860s. The Welsh built a lot of Liverpool houses. Sometimes there are obvious themes to the names. Sometimes there are none. Some themes are vague such as the first letters of street names in Walton that spell out the Welsh building firm's name. There's a lot online about the Welsh builders here is a relevant quote:-

"...an influx of Welsh builders invaded Messrs. Earles' fields [in the Edge Hill district] about 1863, and in a few years the whole surface north of the railway was covered with houses."

JA Picton

Links:-

http://www.liverpool-welsh.co.uk/archive/The%20Welsh%20Builders.pdf

http://liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/liverpool_1863/



Blue

[ShaunJ]

It's difficult to fathom any pattern to the names of streets around Juno Street. Chatsworth Street and   Woodside Street are either side of it.

[juno-liverpool]

Thank you all for your swift replies!
Thanks blue for the Welsh information, that's really interesting. And the 1863 map I also hadn't seen before.

Just found this information in the Liverpool Mercury of 24 Febr 1854 about Juno St:
"Sales by Private Treaty:
John Rigg, Estate agent, 18 Ivy Street, Birkenhead, has the following desirable properties on sale:
Three freehold houses (recently built), situated in Juno Street, Wavertree Road, Edge Hill."

Does this ring a bell..?

J.

[ainslie]

Sometimes a group of street names reflect the former use of the land.  Liverpool Cricket Club was once based at Edge Hill but had to move when the railway or some industry needed the land.  One result was the appearance of Spofforth Road, Giffen, Darling, Richardson, Murdoch and Bannerman Streets- named after members of an early Australian touring cricket team.
Most of the streets have gone but the Australians keep on coming back!
A