Here is a check list of some Corporation "Dwellings" in Liverpool.
It's far from complete, but should include most of the well-known blocks.
I haven't included tower blocks.
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1868-9 Housing: St Martin's Cottages, Vauxhall Road/Silvester Street. Built 1868-69. Opened 1869. 124 units. These were Liverpool's (& Britain's) 1st Corporation Housing.
1885/12/?? Housing: Victoria Square Dwellings. (Nash Grove) (The 2nd example of Corporation Housing). Opened December 1885. 282 Flats.
1890 Housing: Labourers' Dwellings, Juvenal Street. (3rd example of Corporation Housing). Completed Dec. 1890. 102 units.
1897/04/?? Housing: Gildart's Gardens Dwellings (including Kearney Place & Purcell Place). Opened April 1897, 88 units. 1904, 141 units.
1897/06/?? Housing: Arley Street Dwellings. 1st phase opened June 1897, 38 units. 1902 : 1903, 8.
1901/04/?? Housing: Dryden Street Dwellings (including Rachel Street). Opened April 1901. 182 units.
1902 Housing: Kew Street Dwellings (including Newsham Street). Built 1902. See: 1902, 1903, 114 units. 1932, 9 units.
1902-3 Housing: Adlington Street Area Tenements. First phase completed & opened in 1902. 1902 : 1903. 272 units
1902/02/?? Housing: Fontenoy Street Dwellings. Opened February 1902. 16 units.
1902/02/?? Housing: Kempston Street Tenements (including Gildart Street & Constance Street) opened February 1902. 79 units.
1903 Housing: Kew Street Dwellings (including Newsham Street). Opened 1903. See: 1902, 1903, 114 units. 1932, 9 units.
1903 Housing: Mill Street (Tenements) in course of erection on site of tramway stables, 1903.
1903 Housing: Upper Mann Street, Toxteth (Tenements). Proposed to be built, 1903. 88 units. See: 1903, 1905, 1906.
1903 Housing: Upper Stanhope Street (Tenements) in course of erection on site of tramway stables. Opened 1903.
1905 Housing: Clive Street and Shelley Street. Built 1905. 83 units.
1905 Housing: Eldon Street (Corporation Flats). Built 1904-5. Opened 1905. 12 flats.
1905 Housing: Upper Mann Street, Toxteth (Tenements). Opened 1905-06. 88 units. See: 1903, 1905, 1906.
1905 or 1913 Housing: (Check) Rutter Street (Tenements). 1905 or 1913.
1905 or 1914 Housing: (Check) Shelley Street (Tenements). 1905 or 1914.
1906 Housing: Upper Mann Street, Toxteth (Tenements). Opened 1905-06. 88 units. See: 1903, 1905, 1906.
1909 Housing: Combermere Street, Toxteth (Tenements). Built 1909. 49 units.
1910 Housing: Mile End (Corporation Flats). Opened 1910.
1910 Housing: Wavertree Garden Suburb, Nook Rise etc. 1910 etc.
1910/05/?? Housing: Burlington Street Flats. Opened May 1910, 114 units. 1931/6, 209 units.
1911 Housing: 123-137 Grafton Street, Toxteth. (Corporation dwellings). Built 1911. 48 units.
1911 Housing: Bond Street Flats. Opened 1911. (?1925. 24?)
1911 Housing: Eldon Grove (Corporation Flats). Opened 1911.
1911 Housing: Limekiln Lane (Corporation Flats). Opened 1911.
1911 Housing: Saltney Street. Built 1911. 48 units.
1912/06/14 Housing: Bevington Street Area, Corporation Workmen's Dwellings. Built 1911-12. Officially opened 14 June 1912. 224 units.
1913 Housing: Northumberland Street, Toxteth. "Landing House" Tenements (68 units). Opened 1913.
1913 Housing: Southwell Street (Tenements). Built 1913.
1914 Housing: St Anne Street & Birkett Street (Corporation Flats). Opened 1914. 78 units.
1916 Housing: Gore Street, Toxteth. Built 1916. 24 units.
1916 Housing: Jordan Street (off St James Street - 3 storeys). Opened 1916. 31 Dwellings.
1916 Housing: Sparling Street (3-Bed Houses). Opened 1916. 16 Dwellings.
1920s Housing: South Hill House, Toxteth. Corporation Tenements. Built 1920s.
1921 Housing: Chillingham Street. (3-Bed Houses). Occupied 1921+.
1921 Housing: Dingle Lane, Toxteth (Houses). Built 1921.
1921 Housing: Eridge Street, Toxteth. (3-Bed Houses). Occupied 1921+
1921 Housing: Mason Street (Tenements). Built 1921. 28 units.
1921 Housing: Penrhyn Street (Corporation Tenements). Opened 1921. 26 units
1923 Housing: Blenheim Street (Corporation Flats). Opened 1923. 18 units.
1924 Housing: Prince Edwin Street (Corporation Tenements). Opened 1924. 60 units.
1925 Housing: St Augustine Street (Corporation Housing). Opened 1925. 6 units.
1926 Housing: Norris Green Estate. Started 1926.
1926/10/04 Housing: Dingle, Toxteth. Operations started on new housing scheme on 4 October 1926.
1927/10/06 Housing: Knotty Ash Estate bought by the Corporation for housing purposes, 6 October 1927.
1928 Housing: 30-40 Pitt Street (Corporation Tenements). Built 1928. 48 units. See: 1750, 1754, 1765, 1785, 1803, 1905, 1928.
1928 Housing: Dingle House, South Hill Road, Toxteth (Tenements). 1928.
1928/06/29 Housing: South Hill Road Tenement Dwellings, Toxteth. Official opening by Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, 29 June 1928. 198 units.
1929 Housing: Melrose House (Tenements). Built 1929. 260 units
1929 Housing: Rankin Street. Built 1929. 46 units.
1930 Housing: Dovecot Estate. 1930 onwards.
1930 Housing: Hopwood Gardens (Corporation Flats), Hopwood Street. Opened 1930. 30 units.
1930s Housing: Almond Gardens. 1930s.
1930s? Housing: Walton Park Gardens (Corporation Flats)
1930s? Housing: Myrtle House, Myrtle/Crown/Falkner Streets.
1931 Housing: Beloe Street Tenements, Dingle, Toxteth, built 1931. 69 units.
1931 Housing: Great Richmond Street (Corporation Flats). Opened 1931. 21 units.
1931 Housing: Holly Street (Corporation Flats). Opened 1931. 34 units.
1931-6 Housing: Burlington Street Flats. 1910: 114 units. 1931/6: 209 units.
1932 Housing: Burnett Street. Built 1932. 16 units.
1932 Housing: Dingle Mount Tenements, Toxteth. Built 1932. 118 units.
1932 Housing: Kew Street Dwellings (including Newsham Street). 1902 : 1903, 114. 1932, 9.
1933 Housing: Speke Road Gardens. Municipal housing completed 1933.
1934 Housing: Blackstock Gardens (Corporation Flats). Opened 1934. 134 units.
1934 Housing: Dingle Road, Toxteth. Built 1934. 14 units.
1934/01/?? Housing: St Andrew's Gardens (Flats), Brownlow Hill (Trowbridge Street). Work started in January 1934. See: 1934, 1935.
1935 Housing: Chaucer House (Corporation Flats), Scotland Road. Opened 1935. 35 units. .
1935 Housing: St James Gardens, Toxteth. Built 1935.
1935 Housing: Wavertree Gardens (Flats), High Street. Built 1935.
1935/06/22 Housing: St Andrew's Gardens (Flats), Brownlow Hill (Trowbridge Street). Opened 22 June 1935. 346 units. See: 1934, 1935.
1935/7 Housing: Wilbraham House, Scotland Road. Opened 1935/7. 60 Flats.
1935/8 Housing: Fontenoy Gardens. Built 1935/8. 111 units.
1936 Housing: Muirhead Avenue flats. Occupied 1936
1936 Housing: Nelson Street. Built 1936. 25 units.
1936/7 Housing: Caryl Gardens, Toxteth (Corporation Flats). Built 1936/7. 312 units.
1936/7 Housing: Myrtle Gardens, Crown Street/Myrtle Street. Built 1936/7. 344 units.
1936/8 Housing: Highfield Gardens (Flats). Built 1936/8. 107 units.
1936/8/9 Housing: Gerard Gardens (Flats). Foundation Stone 1935. Built 1936/38/39. 312 units.
1937 Housing: Grafton House (Flats), Hill Street, Toxteth. Built 1937. 56 units.
1937 Housing: Horatio Street. Built 1937. 44 units.
1937 Housing: Johnson Street Area. Built 1937. 40 units.
1937 Housing: Prince Albert Gardens (Flats), Upper Frederick Street. Built 1937. 72 units.
1937 to 1950s Housing: Speke Housing Estate. Started 1937, & continued into the 1950s.
1933/8 Housing: Queen Anne Street Area (Flats). Built 1933/8. 449 units.
1938 Housing: Birkett Street (Flats). Built 1938.
1938 Housing: Brunswick Gardens (Flats), Northumberland/Caryl/Park Streets, Toxteth. Built 1938. 150 units.
1938 Housing: Kent Gardens, Kent Square. Built 1938. 90 units.
1938 Housing: Larkhill Estate, Muirhead Avenue. Built 1938.
1938 Housing: Stanhope House, Upper Stanhope Street, Toxteth. Built 1938. 67 units.
1938 Housing: Warwick Gardens (Corporation Flats), Caryl Street & Warwick Street, Toxteth. Built 1938. 107 units.
1938-40 Housing: Sir Thomas White Gardens (Flats), St Domingo Road. (On the site of St Domingo House). Built 1938-40. 348 units.
1938-39 Housing: Windsor Gardens (Flats), Falkner Street (Corlett Street). Built 1938/9. 138 units.
1938-39 Housing: Woodstock Gardens (Corporation Flats), Westmorland Place/Woodstock Street. Opened 1938/9. 201 flats.
1939 Housing: Ashfield Gardens (Corporation Flats), Latimer Street/Silvester Street/Limekiln Lane/Westmoreland Place. Opened 1939.
1939 Housing: Paddington Gardens, Mason Street. Built 1939. 100 units.
1939 Housing: St Oswald Gardens (Flats). Built 1939.
1939/40 Housing: Portland Gardens (Corporation Flats). Opened 1939/40. 110 Flats.
1940s? Housing: Sussex Gardens West, Toxteth. 1940s?
1949 Housing: King Gardens, Mill Street, Toxteth. See: 1938, 150. 1949.
1950 Housing: Sussex Gardens, South Chester Street, Toxteth. Built 1950.
1950s Housing: Corporation Flats, Great George Street area. Built 1950s.
1950s Housing: Harrington Gardens, Mill Street/Hill Street, Toxteth. Built 1950s.
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