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Forgotten/Closed off Streets
Hi all
This is my first proper post so be gentle!
I was going down by Grafton St/Sefton St today and I have been thinking for a few weeks, there are alot of little side streets down there, some blocked off. E.g Crow Street.
I took 2 pics but they are a bit dark, so sorry about that.
Perry Street(1) and Crow St (2) the railings one.
I wondered if anyone else knew of any such streets?
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Plevna St off Dingle Mount Liverpool 8
Excellent idea for a thread. Plevna St has always interested me. It was a short blind ended street off Dingle Mount. It's still there but now used as the entrance to the Liverpool City Mission Church on Dingle Mount. It still has its original rough cobbled surface. See
http://www.toxteth.net/maps/liverpool/lpool6d.htm
and
http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverp...le%20mount.htm
Plevna St is named after a Balkan City whose fall led the Turks to call for an armistice in the Russian Turkish war of the 1870s ( source Steve Horton: Street Names of the City of Liverpool)
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Dingle Mount Church Army Hostel
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Originally Posted by
PhilipG
Bosnia, Plevna and Balkan Streets were originally intended to go right across that block and houses at either end of Plevna and Balkan Streets were built (before 1889), but two schools were then built (shown on that 1905 map). One was replaced by the Matthew Arnold School in 1908, so the rest of the houses were never built.
This is from the Ordnance Survey map of 1953.
Note the house numbers.
Thanks for the extra info Phil. I was interested to see the large property known as the Church Army Hostel on Dingle Mount. This site is now occupied by Higson's Court, a housing development for both families and elderly people. The last family to occupy the building before it went over to institutional use was one Harmood Banner, the well known 19th C Liverpool accountant. He died in the mid 1860s and by 1871 the building was used as an epileptic hospital. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmood_Banner
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Upper Beau St off Fox St Everton
Upper Beau St Everton was once quite a long street. Now only a short length still exists. Photos taken a few years ago. the area may have slightly changed since then.