Liverpool old courts and housing website

[rubyrose]

For anyone with Liverpool ancestors or an interest in social history, this website is a must.

There are loads of photographs of 19th and 20th century Liverpool. I've just been looking at some of the places where my ancestors used to live - it would break your heart to see the conditions in which they lived.

Its really well put together with informative commentary.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7

Ruby

[Ruskie]

This is fascinating - thanks for posting it Ruby.

Some of my OH's ancestors lived in Courts in Liverpool so it is enlightening to see these photographs. I actualy love the old buildings - shame there was such overcrowding and insanitary conditions. 

I'm really enjoying this site - it's in my Favourites!

[liverpool annie]

Oh Ruby ... what have you started ..... I'm going to be there for days .... 

How terrific is that ?? .... it does break your heart doesn't it ?? how lucky we are !!

Annie 

[VICTORIA]

Hi Ruby,

Thought you would like to know that these pictures are included in books by Ged Fagan Inacityliving Editions 1/2/3 My son bought them for me last Christmas I treasure them.

Victoria

[Heyesie]

For anyone with Liverpool ancestors or an interest in social history, this website is a must.

There are loads of photographs of 19th and 20th century Liverpool. I've just been looking at some of the places where my ancestors used to live - it would break your heart to see the conditions in which they lived.

Its really well put together with informative commentary.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7

Ruby

Ruby
I have to agree with you on this one
It is disgusting to think our ancestors had to live in such squalor.
Just goe's to show with what contempt the working or lower class was thought of back then
Untill a war broke out eh
They were the salt of the earth then.
even looking at the later photos during the 1980s and 70s
How people lived with rose tinted glasses eh.
The likes of Gerrard gardens and any of the likes in the Dingle
What a hell hole of a place to bring up your family.
I was brought up in Speke, which had its bad points
But count my blessings now my family moved from the Dingle area
Down to Speke, and not choose to live in those horror homes
Good ridance to the likes of that style of living I say
Funnily enough students and yuppies fall over themselves nowdays to live in St Andrews gardens and Myrtyl gardens

[rubyrose]

Glad you are all 'enjoying' this website. Its awful to think of any people living in those conditions, let alone your own family.

I agree with you Heyesie about the later dwellings too, hard to believe that some of them won awards for architecture.

My dad's family came from Scotland in the 1870s and lived first of all in Clayton Street at the back of Picton Library and then in Sylvester Street, other ancestors lived in Fords Court. All of these streets are pictured on the website.

Ged Fagan's books should be compulsory reading in all Liverpool schools, they are a great piece of social history.

Regards

Ruby

[MissM]

Thanks for posting this link.  I've been there before but I think even more photos hav ebeen added.  I know I cried when I first saw where my Great Grandparents had lived - Penrhyn St, Bostock St - real poverty.

Like Heyesie my family ended up in Speke which has had it's bad times but none of them compare to these courts of North Liverpool.

Lynne

[Taidquest]

hi all, I have been looking at all the Liverpool photos too
and trying to become familiar with place names etc.
does anyone know if there are photos of Great George
 street Liverpool district online? and is the Kent street or
 place mentioned on the photo site anywhere near a Kent Square
or Saint Peters roman catholic church,these are the addresses on my Kavanagh
great grandparents marriage cert in 1899 and I'd love to see the area they lived.
                                                                               regards,anne

[liverpool annie]

Hi Anne !

To those from outside Liverpool tracing their relatives, some sources of possible confusion exist.  St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Seel Street. (after a short period of use as a Polish Church and a period of abandonment, this is now a cafe/bar). There is also a still extant and thriving, St. Peter's Church in Woolton.

http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverpool/churches/st%20peters.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Liverpool

Annie