Christopher T. George
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I understand High Streets to be the main trading streets of towns, with the 'High' origins coming from a High Cross that will have been present as a natural meeting point. Liverpool's High Cross was taken down in the late 17th century to make way for the construction of the 2nd town hall.
Given that the official address of Liverpool Town Hall is Dale Street and there's very little left of High Street anyway I reckon we should start a campaign for it to be re-named back to Juggler Street.
Interesting, thanks, Philip. Do we assume that "Juggler Street" was because of jugglers being at the Liverpool Fair?
By the way it looks as if they have been busy adding images to the Seven Streets website:
http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/LHOL/content.aspx?itemid=176
I couldn't get the images to open beyond the thumbprint image. Maybe you will have more success.
Chris
Christopher T. George
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Editor, Loch Raven Review
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Found this booklet in the Athenaeum library yesterday. Interesting read.
The Antiquity of Some Liverpool Streets
R. Saunders Jones, 1927
Smashing pics Dave - there's some more Liverpool history here. (it mentions the streets and population numbers etc....
Thank you, Dave, interesting information indeed!
Chris
Christopher T. George
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Also found this map showing Liverpool in the 14th Century. High Street was already named.
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I was one of the last people tested for a hackney carriage licence by the police in Roe St./Hood st. It was about 1966, not too sure exactly, the jurisdiction was then passed to the City Council and transfered to Gt.Crossall St.
The dept. was run by a very bad tempered police sergent, questions were asked orally. There were about six questions which most people failed on first time, one was "Where is the town hall?". Most people answered Dale st. his reply was come back when you learn where the town hall is. The correct answer was number 1 High st.
After the Dept. moved it became a multiple choice written test and allowed a lot of drivers on the job who just did not know enough, the quality of service went downhill from there.
Last edited by shytalk; 01-12-2007 at 07:38 PM.
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Thanks for the book and the map, Dave.
The map is a "Conjectural" map showing how it was thought Liverpool looked in the 14th century.
I think the References would date from whenever the map was drawn.
An update.
Informed today that the Council, along with Christina Clarke, Brenda Murray, Florence Gersten and Robin Riley have agreed to the wording to be put on the plaques for Liverpool's original seven streets. The council have also agreed to lift a york stone or granite flagstone up on each street and have it engraved with an emblem indicating the seven streets. The whole thing will be completed by August 2007.
There's also going to be a conference at the Town Hall on May 1st, hopefully with up to one thousand companies who have businesses in the seven streets. I've queried this figure, as I can't see how they could fit that many into the Town Hall. A few of us are organising a stand there with info about the seven streets.
Also Colin Harrison from the Chamber of Commerce has suggested organising a photo exhibition of the buildings in the seven streets, but this is still early days. I've got more than enough photos, but may shoot a few more just in case.
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
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