The Welsh had for long come to Merseyside to trade. By the late 18th century permission was given for some church services to be held in Welsh and in 1840 the Eistedfodd was held in Liverpool because there were so many Welsh people living there.
One particular Welshman will be remembered by any Liveprudlian over the age of 25. His name was Owen and his store, Owen & Owens stood in the city centre for many years.
Many of the houses that were built in the hose building boom of the nineteenth century were constructed by Welshmen. Two such builders left their mark on Liverpool in an unusual way. The streets from Spellow Lane in Walton going northwards are Oxton, Winslow, Eton, Neston, Andrew, Nimrod, Dane, Wilburn Ismay, Lind, Lowell, Index, Arnot, Makin, Olney, Weldon, Euston, Nixon. When the first letters of each street are put together they read Owen and William Owen, the names of the two Welsh brothers who built the houses there.
Source: OUR CITY OUR HERITAGE TEACHERS’ NOTES
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