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Is this street, Gloucester Street the shortest one in Liverpool ?

Gregs Dad,
It might be now but it was there before the station. Before demolition at the top of the hill there was a Gloucester St. sign between St.Vincent St. and Villars St.
I remember this from when I was a cabby years ago. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

it may have been then. the shortest one these days is Union Court off Fenwick St as far as I know.

Hi gregs dad, I can't answer whether Gloucester Street is or was the shortest street in Liverpool though it might well be. Here's a trivia question though, who can name the aged gentleman in the foreground with his hat raised?

Chris

Good old Mr Williams our old chairman

Is it gregs dads dad:)

Could it be what is left of Cambridge Street Wavertee. (This is where George Kelly the wrongly convicted Cameo killer lived).

Good old Mr Williams our old chairman

Yes it's T. V. Williams who was the then Chairman of Liverpool F.C. Well done.

I was told that the shortest one, at least in the city centre, is Castle Hill which only runs the length of one building, the 1st North and South Wales Bank which is now Reeds employment agency.

I was told that the shortest one, at least in the city centre, is Castle Hill which only runs the length of one building, the 1st North and South Wales Bank which is now Reeds employment agency.

thank you . that's the name I was trying to think of. I was stood in it on Saturday. No idea where I got Union Court from ,duh.

High Street runs just down the side of the Town Hall.
I remember being told when I was at school that the official address of all Town Halls was 1 High Street.
Ever since I've looked for confirmation of that.
I was in school in the 1950s, so that rule may not be applicable now.

Phillip,
When the police at Hood St. ran the Hackney carriage tests that was one of the questions, 'Where is the town hall?'.
Few got it correct the first time, most answering Dale St. as I did. The seageant
that gave the test seemed to enjoy failing people first time.
The correct answer as you said was 1 High St.

I was once told that I lived in one of the smallest residential Streets in Liverpool,Petton Street off St Domingo Road it is so small we always had trouble with deliveries as they could never find it in the A-Z

Having lived in every street in Liverpool Mandy, it was odds on you would have lived in the shortest one too at some point :unibrow:

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Kew Street off Scottie road.

I think I win!

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It's got to be the smallest street (actually looks large on a map but it isn't!)

Quite a few littl'uns on a previous thread:

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4004

The question should really be:
Which street started out as the shortest street?
The thread mentioned deals with streets that used to be much longer.
Castle Hill is the strongest contender, but it should be checked to see if it was longer at one time.
Apart from that, High Street, by the Town Hall, is about the shortest.

Another question could be:
Which street started out with the least number of houses?
I know one with 6.
South Hill Grove in the Dingle.

Wm. Brown St. never had any houses.

Is it gregs dads dad:)

No he never had grey hair he died at 37 years of age

Gregs Dad,
It might be now but it was there before the station. Before demolition at the top of the hill there was a Gloucester St. sign between St.Vincent St. and Villars St.
I remember this from when I was a cabby years ago. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

i used to work there with the old man

Wm. Brown St. never had any houses.

quite correct. when there where houses there it was called Shaws Brow.
http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/ShawsBrow.jpg

it was renamed William Brown St in 1860, when the William Brown Library opened.


(pic is a classic print. this version is on old liverpool website)

I was once told that I lived in one of the smallest residential Streets in Liverpool,Petton Street off St Domingo Road it is so small we always had trouble with deliveries as they could never find it in the A-Z

It's on the 1906 OS map, though, Mandy, with about 14 properties on it.
7 of those are definitely houses, so we're still looking for a street (road or whatever) with less than 6 houses when it was first built.

In Kirkdale yesterday, came across Turton St which must be in the running for the shortest and narrowest street now.When my brother lived there it had about 10 houses on one side the other side was the back of the stables in Boundary St,but now it`s only the length of a corner shop.

It's on the 1906 OS map, though, Mandy, with about 14 properties on it.
7 of those are definitely houses, so we're still looking for a street (road or whatever) with less than 6 houses when it was first built.

heres a pic from the LRO of Petton Street ( no Ged thats not me in the pic :PDT10)


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Little St Bride st L8 (off Catherine st). That's a small street with only about 2 or 3 houses.

Little St Bride st L8 (off Catherine st). That's a small street with only about 2 or 3 houses.

But were they built as houses?
In that immediate area alone there are Back Canning Street, Little Catherine Street and Little Canning Street, to name but a few.
They were back streets and the buildings would originally have been stables.
By the time that area was built, houses would have needed "rights to light" and the back streets wouldn't have been wide enough to admit adequate light.

I used to visit a house in Little st Bride st. (1970s). It was one of the typical large houses of the area. I must go past that way to refresh my memory.

Two other small streets I've thought of; Crouch st and Boycott st off St Domingo Grove. L5. They have houses.

quite correct. when there where houses there it was called Shaws Brow.
http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/ShawsBrow.jpg

it was renamed William Brown St in 1860, when the William Brown Library opened.


(pic is a classic print. this version is on old liverpool website)


You're both wrong.


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I stand corrected. cheers for that Tony. I thought I'd seen a picture of the library with houses, but despite looking on the net I couldn't find it. When I saw the Shaws Brow pic I'd assumed I was mistaken.

There's pics in the LRO showing the Angel Vaults, Leicester Hotel and houses on Wm Brown St at Livesley Place with the library and Museum in situ but not yet the technical college.

Here's another short street, Cummings Street off Cornwallis St - not THE shortest by any means but one of them possibly, it becomes Bailey Street at the top.




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This is Bailey street which runs from Cummings st to Grenville st South. Each of the houses have bars on the windows and a front door sized gate which precedes the front door.

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Acton grove, Anfield, L6. Interesting because it has only 7 houses - 4 of which were made from the old 'Anfield Boys Club' building - which I think was originally, in the old days, a little church hall. The spire is still on the roof.

I played footy for Anfield boys youth club in 1979 when I was at the Merseyside youth association based at 86/88 Sheil Road but I don't remember it being in that old hall with a spire - didn't they have a bigger place too then? Or is my memory playing tricks on me.

Yes, the Anfield boys club was moved into a big new building on Breckside playing field - I don't remember the year it was built, but it would have been early or mid 1970s I think.
There has recently been more refurbishment and the club updated and expanded to accomodate Vernon Sangster sports centre (recently demolished to make way for LFC).

The old Boys club lay empty for a long time until property developers came along and turned it into houses. (quite a nice idea really). :)

Acton grove itself is an old road.

I'm not going to create a new thread but does anyone know of the narrowest street in Liverpool?

I know that the highway agency should allow every road/street to fit a single car down, but are there any which are plain silly and narrow?

Hackins Hey is pretty narrow when you turn into it from Dale st, or Cumberland st even but I think you'll mean ever narrower than those?

Hackins Hey is pretty narrow when you turn into it from Dale st, or Cumberland st even but I think you'll mean ever narrower than those?

Narrow enough so you can't get your wallet down Ged :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Oh, I don't know any that are that narrow. :)

Glover Street, off Sefton Street, has to be one of the narrowest streets. It's blocked off now, though.

This is Bailey street which runs from Cummings st to Grenville st South. Each of the houses have bars on the windows and a front door sized gate which precedes the front door.

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:shock: don't think I'd fancy living there.

Petton St was behind Everton Library. It ran from St Domingo Rd and Beacon Lane. it would not be in the first 50 Short Streets. (Well maybe the first 49)

Cheers!

How about Sweeting St between Dale St and Castle St?

Yes, that's a lovely little street. :)

On the subject of short and narrow streets. if anyone knows of Princes St which runs from Dale St to Victoria St,it has a short section half way down which opens into North John St. This should qualify for both shortest and narrowest. (Its got no houses at all).

Wm. Brown St. never had any houses.

William Brown Street did have houses - check out the map I published on a previous page of this thread.

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