Originally Posted by
lindylou
That's right. I've known a lot of people born and bred around L'pool 8 - in roads including Falkner, Canning, Huskisson, Hope st, Stanhope st.
No matter what the official boundaries were or are, they always said that they were from L'pool 8 - never saying Toxteth (which only became in usage by the media after the riots - and no one had ever heard of it being called the 'Georgian Quarter either !!
It seems to be popular to call it 'Tocky' these days - usually by the youth.
Dingle. people from Dingle usually say they are from Dingle and don't refer to it as anything else.
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