there's a book out called Street Names of the City of Liverpool you might be interested in.

Tarleton Street is worth a mention, it was named after a local commander in the British Army who fought in the American War of Independence. He was portrayed in the film 'The Patriot' as a monster who rounded women and children into churched and burned them down. He apparently commanded his men with an iron fist but these atrocities never happened and created much controversy with his descendants, still in Liverpool complaning about the portrayal.

There are also a number of streets which were renamed in a fit of London-worshipping.

? -> Islington
Brownlow Hill (upper end) -> Paddington
Prescot Lane -> Kensington
Pinfold Lane -> Vauxhall Road
? -> Covent Garden
? -> Wapping



Parliament street was built on the boundary between the township of Liverpool and Toxteth Park as the northern edge of the new town of Harrington. it was named after the act of parliament which allowed the new town to be built... it was later extended along the boundary to Upper Parliament Street. However the new town around Mill Street never really took off and was soon subsumed by poor quality housing for dock workers when the south docks were built.