There is an exhibition at The Lady Lever Art Gallery until13th May called ''Merchant Palaces'
There are some great photographs from Harry Bedford Lemere of houses in Fullwood Park and Sandfield Park as well as T.H. Ismay's home in Thurstaton.
There was a house called 'Palmyra in Aigburth Vale as well as a house which has disappeared called 'Rainhill' which is believed to be somewhere in Liverpool.