Chipping Street, Liverpool 8

[MissInformed]

I just thought of something from my school days I thought you might be interested in!
I went to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School on North Hill St/Letitia Street near Park Road.
At the back of the top playground (behind the reservoir) there is a little fenced off part. It is the remains of Chipping Street. It only has cobble stones and alot of overgrowth, but would be interesting to see if anyone knows if it was a fully functioning street at one time?

[scouserdave]

This is from one of the Godfrey maps, Toxteth 1906. I've got all the Liverpool ones and often refer to them. According to the map, Chipping Street is about 600 feet in length:PDT_Piratz_26:

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/chipping.gif

[MissInformed]

thanks dave
much appreciated.
wonder if there is any pics....

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi MissInformed

Not a picture of Chipping Street as such but there is a photograph of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - High Park Street on Toxteth.net and they note that "Our Lady of Mount Carmel first appears in the 'Liverpool Directory' of 1867 when the address is given as 'Chipping Street, Toxteth Park', . . ." See

http://toxteth.net/places/liverpool/churches/mount%20carmel.htm

All my best

Chris

[MissInformed]

thanks for info chris.
I have seen that on toxteth.net.
It's a shame there is not a pic of Chipping Street around.
I have searched Liverpool Records online cataloue too, but doesn't seem to be anything.

[snappel]

I think I know the bit you mean... no photos though.

Dave, agree with you on the Godfrey maps - I have most of the Liverpool ones and they're amazing... the differences between then and now are unreal...

[sweetpatooti]

That's the little street behind the church and Admiral Stree Police Station - you can get your wedding pics taken in the little garden behind Lady Mount when you get married there.

[FKoE]

how many times have you been married Pootie :D


Twice is pushin' it by der way ;) :celb (23):

[sweetpatooti]

Just the once - to the love of my life for 21 years (I was a child bride) - he is my 'Beshert' as they say in Yiddish.

[MissInformed]

awww bless!
yeah, the garden behind the church...memories! :)

I remember the teachers used to let us clean the rubbish out of Chipping Street for a treat on a Friday afternoon, and we used to actually argue to be the chosen ones!! how sad were we??

[sweetpatooti]

Your cup runneth over!

[shirleyvalentine]

Yes Chipping Street, was the street, that ran along the top of our street (Hodges Mount). Remember the cobbles well, we used to burst the tar bubbles in between them with lolly ice sticks on the hot summer days....ohhh they were the days lol


:)

[Davec]

Didn't Bouverie Street - which ran into Chipping Street from High Park Street - have those waist-high posts to stop through traffic?...and wasn't it 'unadopted'?

[lindylou]

Didn't Bouverie Street - which ran into Chipping Street from High Park Street - have those waist-high posts to stop through traffic?...and wasn't it 'unadopted'?

First time I've seen a mention of Bouverie st.
my aunty & uncle lived there. We used to visit a lot. Would love to see a photo of Bouverie street to refresh my memory. It was demolished many years ago. ( the street - not my memory !) :)

[shirleyvalentine]

Yes it did and yes it was unadopted.

It also had coble stones the full length of the road.

We used to cut through there on our way to Princess Park. (just a bit of useless information hee hee) :)

[Davec]

Funny thing is, I don't ever remember walking down Bouverie St, even though I must have passed the top of it hundreds of times. The rear of the 'new' police station in Admiral St. would be were it existed. Appropriate really, because in the 1891 census, out of the 23 houses 3 were occupied by rozzers.

Dave.

[lindylou]

Yes it did and yes it was unadopted.

It also had coble stones the full length of the road.

We used to cut through there on our way to Princess Park. (just a bit of useless information hee hee) :)

I do remember those cobble stones.

[essexscouse]

yes it was.The street was cobbled all the way through i lived in hodges mount at the top of which was chipping st it ran from the edge of the resevoir which is letitia st to admiral street at the other end next to the resevoir sanwiched between it and the school was a house wherein lived a boy from the school i think he was in the year below me his family name was Gargan further along chipping st was the coalyard of Alf the coalman and at the end was the United services club which had the Gym above for the boxing club Golden Gloves I remember being there one night when a local boxing hero Terry Wenton came in
I just thought of something from my school days I thought you might be interested in!
I went to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School on North Hill St/Letitia Street near Park Road.
At the back of the top playground (behind the reservoir) there is a little fenced off part. It is the remains of Chipping Street. It only has cobble stones and alot of overgrowth, but would be interesting to see if anyone knows if it was a fully functioning street at one time?

[shirleyvalentine]

Yes, the boy you talk of, his name was Paul........I remember him well, he used to run down Hodges Mount, as if he was riding a horse lol ohhh happy days :)

[Davec]

I think there were a few of us who used to do that....but always alone :). I always treated my 'horse' fairly, never asking him to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Dave.

[shirleyvalentine]

Yep, only treat one as you would have treat yourself lol

Gosh, the games we used to play. So innocent, yet wonderful :)

[Ged]

I noticed a few of Mount Carmel on this 1973 flickr set. Are any of the streets you're looking for on there?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/60302053@N00/pool/page30/




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[shirleyvalentine]

Thank you Ged,

Some wonderful pictures of Our lady of Mount Carmel. However, haven't come across Hodges Mount yet lol. But I am sure it will turn up one day along with all the other old streets from the area.

Thanks again.

Kindest Wishes
Chrissy :)

[shirleyvalentine]

After saying that, found a picture of the site of our street, after the demolition the houses (sad). If anyone one wants it I have a copy.

[Ged]

First time I've seen a mention of Bouverie st.
my aunty & uncle lived there. We used to visit a lot. Would love to see a photo of Bouverie street to refresh my memory. It was demolished many years ago. ( the street - not my memory !) :)


As requested. From my trip to the LRO.

[Ged]

I notice Letitia street also got a couple of mentions so here she is :)

Both have been added to this page of my site along with some others.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44843738&cr=7


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[Davec]

Ged,

big ta's for those mate, especially the Bouverie St. one...it might just about be unique.

Dave.

[lindylou]

Ged, thanks for that Bouverie st pic. When I was a kid I used to go with my mum or nan most weeks to visit an aunty & uncle. Have never seen a photo of the street since. Thanks :handclap:
Not sure if my aunty & uncles house is showing on the pic - will ask my mum to see if she recognises it.

[Ged]

You're both welcome Dave and Lindy. Having pretty much got everything out of the records office for myself now (until the next time I think of something), I took a list of those streets that forumers here and elsewhere were looking for. If you can't enlarge those pics to full screen let me know and i'll upload again using imageshack.

[lindylou]

re Bouverie st; anyone who knew the area well - is the pic taken from Chipping st end or the other end ?
My relatives lived nearer to Chipping st end. I'll have to find out from my elderly aunt if she remembers the corner shop which is on that photo.

[Davec]

lindylou,

I'm pretty sure that view is from High Park St. end.
Chipping St. as you know was only a narrow street, so I think you would need to be in the much wider High Parky to get that perspective.


Dave.

[lindylou]

Thanks. Yes, I thought it was more likely to be High Park st end.

[essexscouse]

As requested. From my trip to the LRO.

Great pics matey thanks
Bouverie pic is from high park st end

Letitia st is from north hill st end .To the right of letitia pic was Bores Factory demolished by then .The right hand side of letitia st was new build corpy houses one of my friends lived there he was one of 13 kids in the house
to the left at bottom of street was (memory failing) refuge house or similar

[Ronijayne]

I remember Chipping St. I also went to Mount Carmel

[shirleyvalentine]

I have a 1966 Kellys Directory

Some Names & house numbers to go with the Letitia Street pic

From 28 North Hill Street Left Side

3 Johnson Regnld
6 Sharpe
7 Lund Harold
9 Thompson Wm
11 Comie Mrs
13 Foxley Stanley
15 Kennedy Mrs Eliza
17 Bailey Fred
19 Willliams Rt
21 Foxley mrs Catherine
23 Cartwright
25 Roberts Iowerth
27 Kennedy Jn
31 Berry Jn
33 McArdle Patrick

Chipping Street
Right Side High park St

[shirleyvalentine]

Listing of house numbers and names of people that lived there, as listed in the 1966 Kellys Directory.

8 Chipping Street
Left Side

1 Usher Wm
3 Davies Arth
5 Boileau Mrs GL
7 Growney Hugh
9 Austin Thos
11 Gray Jas
13 Tunstall Mrs F
15 Perry Wm
17 Moore Mrs E
19 Balmer Mrs Sarah
21 Jones Mrs Mary Eliz
23 Roberts Mrs Eliz

RIGHT SIDE
2 Donnolly Jas
4 Cregeen Thos Edwin
6 Gillbanks mrs Hilda
8 O'Malley Jas
10 Carr Wm
12 Hussey Cyril
14 Atkinson Jas
18 Thompson Mrs
20 Wilson Jn

HIGH PARK STREET

[Ronijayne]

I know some of those names. Anne Gillbanks was my 'best friend' when I was very young. There were three of us, went everywhere together when I lived with my Grandmother. The other one was Vera Mulloney.

[lindylou]

Thanks for the Bouverie st listing. I can see my relative's name. :)