19th Century

Liverpool timeline snippets you just need to know!

The century of change:- as a port Liverpool becomes second only to London

1800 – Population now 78,000. Everton still a village
1800 – Toxteth Park – there were four farms on land leased from Lord Molyneux
1800 – Gun batteries along Mersey because of Naploeonic Wars – including North Battery (site of Collingwood/Stanley Docks)
1800 – Post Office moves to Post Office Place (from Lord St), to Canning Place in 1839 – Customs House
1800 – Bartholomew Bretherton starts running stagecoaches (Angel Inn Dale St/North St John St)
1800 – Union News Rooms – Duke St/Slater St – 1852/60 becomes Liverpool’s first public library also housed Derby Museum
1800 – Heywoods Bank – Brunswick St, house attached in Fenwick St
1800 – School for the Indigent Blind – London Rd . Moved to Hardman St when Lime St extended – 1849-51, extension 1932 – still there
1800 – Additional canal basin at Old Hall east side for timber trade
1800 – Walton Windmill – ‘Springfield Mill’ -behind current Springfield pub demolished 1920’s/30s
1800 – Great Crosshall St laid out
1801 – Census – 12percent of population living in cellars, 15percent in courts. Pop is 77,653
1801 – William Hutchinson dies and is buried at St Thomas’ – 7th Feb aged 85
1802 – John Foster snr appointed Corporation Surveyor in addition to existing role of Dock Surveyor
1802 – Lyceum in Bold St (newsroom and library) – Thomas Harrison, built on site of a timber yard
1802 – The American Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool is created which, although a separate entity involves many figures from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and continues to operate until 1907
1802 – Chisendale Bridge, canal
1802 – Jonas Bold becomes Mayor – a noted slave merchant, sugar trader and banker – owned land since 1786 hence Bold St
1802 – Bethesda Independent Chapel – Duncan St East (Hotham St area)
1803 – Scotland Rd partly widened
1803 – Great Georges Sq laid out and built up by 1836 – was very grand area!! (bottom of Nelson ST)
1803 – St Marks’s Church – Upper Duke St. Demolished 1913
1803 – Botanic Gardens open in Myrtle St/Melville Place (to become site of Myrtle Gardens)
c1803 – Sessions House – Chapel St – pulled down 1855 for new Exchange
1803 – Thomas Staniforth dies aged 69 – 15th Dec. Buried at St Thomas’
1803/08 – Exchange Flags behind Town Hall (rebuilt in 1860’s and 1939)
1804 – Limekilns moved from Lime St (Limekiln Lane) to North Shore
1804 – Welsh Charity School built in Russell St
c1804 – Area between Clayton Sq and Lime St contains rope-walks
1804 – Bridewell on South Chapel St
1804 – 26th Feb – duel between Mr Sparling (St Domingo) and Mr Grayson (shipbuilder)
1805 – Olympic Circus – Christian St, Everton – 1831 became Queens theatre, 1847 Theatre Royal Adelphi, 1912 Adelphi Cinema – destroyed in Blitz
1805 – Moses Samuel and his mother move to Liverpool
1805 – Liverpools last duel – Colonel John Bolton v Major Brooks – Pembroke Place
1805 – Mayor – Henry Clay
1805 – Henry Duncan born at 106 Seel St – now Blue Angel Club
1805 – Joseph Williamson (Mole of Edge Hill) moves into house on Mason St – façade still standing. The famous tunnels start c1806 and end on his death in 1840.
1805 – Sir J A Picton born 2nd Dec. Died 15th July 1899
1806 – Edward Rushton opend book shop at 44 Paradise St
1806 – Charles Okill appointed to look into Treasurers books (John foster Snr)
1806 – William Roscoe elected MP for Liverpool – quickly left post after talking out against the slave trade
1806 – Marybone Brewery – top of Tithebarn/Vauxhall Rd – now site of student village
1806 – St Marys Chapel and Graveyard – Cambridge St – 20,000 burials by closure in 1849
1807 – Liverpool Cricket Club founded as Mosslake
1807 – Thomas Leyland Bank and warehouses in York St (off Duke St) 10th Jan
1807 – Last slave ship – Kitty Amelia. Capt Hugh Crow
1807 – Synagogue, Seel St/Back Berry St – moves to Princes Rd in 1878 (still there)
1807 – Brunswick Chapel and burial ground, Moss St – closed by 1963 and demolished
1808 – 7th March – cotton traders move from the top of Castle Street to Exchange Flags
1808 – Corn Exchange – Brunswick/Fenwick St – destroyed in The Blitz and rebuilt 1953-59
1808 – Dale St is widened.
1808 – Dingle estate purchased by Rev John Yates
1809 – In January 1809 the Commercial Room was opened in the New Exchange. This was afterwards renamed the News Room.
1809 – William Gladstone born in Rodney St – became Prime Minister 4 times
1809 – Female Penitentiary – Falkner St – with the aim to rehabilitate prostitutes to “a respectable station in society.”
1809 – Liver Grease, Oil & Chemical Company – trading in Liverpool on 22nd December 1809 as P. Houlgrove & Co. – Turpentine Distillers – still trading at Norfolk St
c1809 – John Wright & Co Sugar Refinery – Manesty Lane
1809 – Liverpool Female School of Industry – top of Wood St
1809 – Liverpool Society for Preventing Wanton Cruelty to Brute Animals’ – forerunner of RSPCA
1810 – William Brown (funder of museum) founds merchant bank. In 1825 he Brown is joined by a partner, Joseph Shipley
1810 – Great Homer St laid out by Georgian property developer Joshua Rose
1810 – John Foster Jnr goes to Greece until 1816, exploring architecture etc
c1810 – No. 10 Bold St, as house, later shop – TIEDEMANN & BYRNE, (from1870) – watchmakers – frontage late 19thC
1810 – Collape of St Nicholas spire – 24 children killed plus 3 adults
1810 – 4 – 6 Rodney St – Roscoe Court – one time the residence of James Maury, the first United States Consul in Liverpool.
1810 – Goree Warehouses rebuilt after 1802 fire – John Foster Snr supervised
1810 – Mersey Forge – Grafton St, Toxteth. Later became Mersey Steel and Iron Company
1810 – Liverpool Ship Owners Association formed. In 1988 the Association merged with the Liverpool Steam Ship Owners Association
1810 – Saracens Head Pub – Dale St (on site of Crosse Hall, now site of Municipal Buildings) Demolished in 1853
1811 – St Silas Church, Pembroke Place built – closes 1941
1811 – Front portico added to Town Hall as is
1811 – Day police introduced – seven districts each with 3 constables
c1811 – steam power is being used for dock excavation and pumping
1811 – Completion of Great Howard St Gaol – the ‘French Prison’ (for local prisoners)
1811 – St Lukes (bombed out church) started – John Foster Snr & John Foster Jnr – Opened 1831
1811 – ‘The Liverpool Mercury’ first published – lasted til 1904 when merged with Daily Post
1811 – Grain warehouse built at Dukes Dock – survives until 1960’s
1811 – Docks Committee separately incorporated – the finances of the docks were separately administered from those of the corporation. Make-up amended by a further Act of 1825 to include 8 members elected by the docks rate payers
1811 – Renshaw St Chapel – ex Benns Garden, see 1727 above
1812 – Otterspool House built by John Moss is in place – demolished 1931
c1812 – Prince Edwin St and Roscommon St laid out as Everton expands
c1812 – James Atherton lays out – Northumberland Terr., York Terr., Grecian Terr.
1812/13 – St Mary’s – Irvine St Edge Hill built – still there
1812 – The only assassination of a British Prime Minister. Spencer Percival was shot by bankrupt Liverpool merchant John Bellingham
1812 – Threlfalls Brewery – Crosbie St (off St James St) by John Threfall – moves to Trueman St in 1847
1812 – The Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society is formed
1812 – George Canning elected MP for Liverpool – holds seat until 1823
1812 – December, Liverpool had become the first and remained the only constituency with a permanent Parliament office in Westminster for the transmission of business between lobbyists, Members and Ministers
1813 – Approximately 10% of Liverpool’s population is now Welsh
c1813 – Bronte House – between Walton Lane and Sleepers Hill – for merchant Samuel Woodhouse
1813 – Seaforth Hall – built by Sir John Gladstone MP, father of the future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Demolished 1881
1812/13 – Horatio Nelson Monument in Exchange Flags – 21st Oct. Designed by Matthew Coates Wyatt (1777-1862) and sculpted by (Sir) Richard Westmacott (1775-1856).
1814 – St Georges Church Everton – first iron church – still there – John Cragg – Thomas Rickman
1814 – St John the Evangelist Church, Fountains Rd
1814 – The Liverpool Royal Institution – 1817 bought Parrs building on Colquitt St – opened on November 25. Moved across road in 1843 for gallery (dissolved 1948)
1814 – Harrington Elementary School – Upper Stanhope St
1814 – Huge Tobacco Warehouse built on west-side of Kings Dock
1814 – Thomas Leyland again elected Mayor
1814 – Edward Rushton dies
1814 – The first Liverpool ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope, within a few years India had become one of the principal markets for the goods exported from Liverpool
1815 – by now Liverpool is major port for import of West African Palm Oil
1815 – Liverpool Savings Bank Founded, originally Ranelagh St, moved to Freemasons Hall in Bold St, in 1819. Extended in 1829. By the 1850s, Liverpool Savings Bank had become the fifth largest in the UK
1815 – Tower of St Nicks replaced to a design of Thomas Harrison The new tower was built on a slightly different site and in the rebuilding the remains of the old chapel of St Mary del Key, which had served as a school, a boat house and a tavern, were demolished.
1815 – First steam ship on Mersey from the Clyde – the Elizabeth
1815 – St Michael-in-the-Hamlet – plus 5 villas, more added in 1840’s, and a terrace in 1880’s John Cragg – Thomas Rickman
1815 – St Andrew’s Renshaw St/Heathfield St built – later demolished for Central Station
1816 – First street gas lamps – outside Town Hall
1816 – St Philip Church – Hardman St – John Cragg – Thomas Rickman
1816 – Steam ships start being built on Mersey at Runcorn
1816 – Roscoe’s Art Collection is bought by Liverpool Royal Institution on his bankruptcy – finally to Walker Art Gallery in 1948
1816 – Abercromby Sq starts to be laid out – was Moss Lake Fields (drained early this century – 1816). The west terrace is added by John Foster snr 1819. Central rotunda 1822
1816 – Floating Baths launched
1816 – Liverpool Gas Light Co formed – Wykes Court and Hatton Garden
1816 – Liverpool Leeds Canal now open throughout
1816 – Leyland and Bullins Bank open branch in King St
1814-16 – Wellington Reading Rooms Mount Pleasant
1817 – St Peters RC School – Seel St next to church (Alma de Cuba now) still there
1817 – Steam ferries between Pier head and Birkenhead
1817 – The seawater baths were demolished, in order to make way for the Prince’s Dock
1817 – Johnson (the Cleaners) Brothers started in business as silk dyers
1818 – Pleasant St Board/Primary School – still there
1818 – St Andrews School – Fleet St junction with Slater St – paid for by John Gladstone – still there
c1818 – Great Crosshall St Welsh Independent Chapel – site of Marybone Student Halls now
c1818 – Cheapside widened – current terrace of shops on left-hand side built
1818 – First iron shed for docks – east of Queens Dock
1818 – Waterloo Hotel opens Ranelagh St – Mr Lynn
1818 – Islington Market – Shaws Brow – demolished 1856
1818 – Kirkdale Gaol – enlarged 1864-65, closed 1892. Now the site of Kirkdale Recreation Ground
1818 – Church St first Liverpool street to be macadamised
1819 – Tower Buildings pulled down, replaced by warehouses, rebuilt 1856
1819-20 – Jonathon Blundell Hollinshead – Mayor
1819 – Glass Manufactory, Vauxhall Rd – Orford & Foster
1819 – Steam packet to Belfast starts – ‘The Waterloo’
1819 – On the 20th June, paddle steamer Savannah, Georgia sails into Liverpool first steam assisted vessel to cross Atlantic
1819 – St Mary’s, the Chapel of the School for the Indigent Blind, Duncan Street (later Hotham Street) opened by Bishop of Chester 6th Oct
1819 – Castle St gas lit
1819 – Orange Lodge formed in Liverpool
1820-30 – Canning St laid out – one of longest and best preserved
c1820 – Manchester St laid out
1820 – Anne Jemima Clough was born. She pioneered the University extension movement (which provided lectures for women who were denied access to universities because of their sex)
c1820 – Many streets widened – Dale St (north side taken down and set back) ; Lord St; North and South John St; James St; Old hall St; Tithebarn St
1820 – Liverpool Opthalmic Infirmary – Wood St
1820 – Liverpool Seamans Friend Society founded
1820/21 – The Birkenhead Ferry, as we know it today was inaugurated in 1820 at Woodside. A George la French obtained the consent
1820 – Great Homer St widened and built upon
1820 – Dome added to Town Hall
1820’s – 72 – 74 Upper Parliament St – still there
c1820 – A house called Holly Lodge built by Quaker Issac Cooke – became school in 1922
1820 – Mechanics and Apprentices Library on School Lane
1820 – John Foster jnr is first President of the revived Liverpool Academy of Arts
1820 – Everton Cross disappears
1820 – Old Hall St widened, slums/courts demolished, and the hall finally demolished
1820s – North and South John Streets widened
c1821 – Water St widened
1821 – Select Vestry by election to overcome previous mal-administration of Poor Relief and workhouses
1821 – Windmill at St James Mount demolished after storm
1821 – Bent’s Brewery – Johnson St – Richard and John Bent.
1810/21 – Princes Dock – 19th July – George IV’s coronation Half-tide dock added 1868. Entrance sealed 1949
1821 – James Cropper creates Dingle Bank – 1823 three large houses and Dingle Cottages
1821/48 – Dock wall constructed
1821 – Red Star Line established – increased traffic to America (Liverpool-New York)
1821/27 – St Patricks RC Church – Park Place/Park Road
1822 – James Muspratt opens an alkali works in Vauxhall – the origins of ICI
1822 – St John’s Market opened in Great Charlotte St (demolished 1964) – Opened 7th March
1822 – Father James Nugent born in Hunter St – memorial in St John’s Gardens –
1822 – George III monument – London Road. Originally intended for Great George Square – Sir Richard Wesmacott
1822 – Brocklebanks opened an office in Rumford Street
1822 – 5th Dec – violent storm causes deaths and damage
1822 – St Matthews Daily & Sunday Schools – Hackins Hey
c1822 – ‘The Lancashire County Refuge for the Destitute’ was Roscoe St now Edge Lane – Adelaide House
c1823 – Sudley House
c1823 – Windsor St laid out
c1823 – Borean Universalists Chapel in Bold Street
1823 – Egyptian long staple cotton is imported into Liverpool for the first time
1823 – Miss Anne Sharp – best friend of Jane Austin – is running a boarding school at 14-15 Everton Terrace. Buried at St Georges church
1823 – Union Half-tide Dock built – merged with Coburg Dock in 1858
1823 – 30th Sept – Mr Sadler – as part of triennial music festival makes a false landing in is hot-air balloon
1823 – Liverpool Oil Gas Company (became New Gas and Coke Company)
1823/4 – St Andrews Church – Rodney St – still there but burnt out in 1983 – 2013 – being converted to student accommodation
1824 – Under Chairmanship of John Moss the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Joint-Committee is established to press for railway
1824 – Park Hill Rd laid out, South Hill Rd soon after
1824 – Camell Laird – Birkenhead – William Laird
1824 – Bartholomew Bretherton – stagecoach coach proprietor – builds Rainhill House/Hall opposite his stables
1824 – John Foster Snr resigns as Corporation Surveyor and Dock Engineer. 18th February – John Foster Jnr appointed as Surveyor and Architect to the Corporation
1824 – Jesse Hartley is appointed dock surveyor (chief engineer) of the Port of Liverpool, at the age of 44. It was a post he would hold for nearly forty years until he died, still in post, aged 80.
1824 – Liverpool Infirmary moves to Brownlow St – 230 beds cost £25,000
1824 – Gaetano Donizetti’s writes ‘Emilia di Liverpool (Emily of Liverpool) Opera’
1824 – Many more schools by now – 12 Anglican; 7 Methodist; 15 Sunday School Union etc
1825 – Anti-emigration laws relaxed, many now leaving for new World via Liverpool
1825 – Necropolis or Low Hill Cemetry Everton (now Grant Gardens). John Foster Jnr – 5-acre site surrounded by an arcade. Grand entrance with Oratory
1825 – Liverpool Mechanics School of Arts, (moves to be the Mechanics Institution Mount St in 1835)
1825 – Number 100 Bold Street was built to house Louis Daguerre’s Diorama
c1825 – Charitable Institutions House – Slater St – paid for by John Gladstone
1825 – Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb – Wood st
1825 – Improvement Act – Castle Ditch houses demolished (for St Georges Crescent 1827). Also plans for James St, Hanover St, Great Howard St, Leece St, Shaws Brow, London Rd
1825/35 – Ropeworks off Lodge Lane
1827/32 – Brunswick dock built for timber trade – Jesse Hartley
1826 – Cookes Circus. In 1830 remodelled as ‘Cooke’s Royal Amphitheatre of Arts’ (Great Charlotte St/Roe St) – 1881 Royal Court Theatre’ – rebuilt after fire in 1933/38
1826 – Bank of England opens in former private house in Hanover St – move to Castle St in 1844/45
1826 – The poem Casabianca ( known as The Boy stood on the Burning Deck) was written by Liverpool born Felicia Hemans
1826 – Upper Stanhope Street, Upper Hill Street, Chester Street and Windsor Street were purchased from Lord Sefton by the Wesleyans
1826 – Houses built on Park Street
1826 – Group of 6 houses – Blackburne Terrace – set back with carriage drive
1826 – Bevington Bush School – North Corporation Primary School – Blackstock St
1826 – St Michaels Church – Cornwallis/Kent St
1826/27 – Lord St widened four fold and the crescent (St Georges Crescent) introduced. Pool Lane improved and called South Castle St
1826 – The second Bill for Liverpool Manchester Railway was introduced in February 1826, approved by Parliament and given royal assent in May
1826 – First Adelphi built on site of Ranelagh Tea Rooms
1826 – Gardeners lodge built at St James Mount/cemetery – still there
1827 – Old Dock filled in ready for Customs House
1827 – Floating Mariners Church in Kings dock – sank in 7th June 1872
1827 – St David’s Welsh Church Brownlow Hill – demolished 1910 for extension to Adelphi Hotel
1827 – Oratory opened at public cemetery – St James Mount, for funeral services. On site of ancient windmill
c1827 – George Forrester and Company of Vauxhall Foundry founded. Started building locomotives in 1834-to-1847
1827 – St Mary’s Church Bootle built – hit in Blitz and demolished later, now ‘Church Gardens’
1827 – Wesleyan Methodist Chapel – Stanhope St
1827/28 – Queens Hall, 65-67 Bold St – was a Chapel, then entertainment hall, then café…
1827 – Liverpool – Holyhead Semaphore Telegraph
1827 – Liverpool Law Society founded
1827 – 12th April – George Canning MP becomes PM for a short time
1827 – Thomas Leyland Leyland died on 29th May, aged 75
1827 – Upper Parliament St laid out
c1828 – Mathesons Brewery – Bond St off Vauxhall – merges with Threfall’s in 1888
1828 – Dale St widened
1828 – Foundation stone for 5th Customs House laid 12th Aug (finished 1838)
1828 – Rushworths (organs) founded in Yorkshire, move to Liverpool late 1800’s. Had shops in Islington and Whitechapel, plus organ works in Great George St and St Anne St
1828/1902 – W.H & G.H Dreaper were piano makers at 96 Bold Street – supplied the Beatles
1828 – Hendersons Dept Store opened in Church St – 1949 purchased by Harrods
1828 – Widening of St Johns Lane – burials exhumed
1828 – Calderstones Mansion House
1828 – St Martin-in-the-Field – Silvester St off Vauxhall Rd – ‘The Black Church’
1829 – UKs first publicly funded baths at St Georges Dock
c1829 – Shaw St, Everton laid out – first house built on Shaw St – eventually grand Georgian houses built on west side
1829 – St James Cemetery – over 100 rock-hewn catacombs, 57,774 burials. Finally closed 1936. Restored 2001
1829 – St Brides – Percy St
1829 – Horse racing starts at Aintree – William Lynn of Waterloo Hotel Ranelagh St
1829 – Claremont Grove (Fountains Rd) Independent Chapel Kirkdale – became RC John the Evangelist in 1870
1829 – Liverpools first joint stock bank – Manchester & Liverpool District Bank – 45 Pool Lane
1829 – Liver Theatre – 46 Church St – (converted to shops 1850s, may now be Dorothy Perkins)
1829 – John James Audubon arrived in Liverpool on 21st July, stays with Rathbones at Greenbank
c1829 – Liverpool North Dispensary – 56 Vauxhall Rd/Freemasons Row
1829 – North and South Bootle Landmarks – they stood on what is now the site of the Alexandra Dock, Branches Nos. 1 and 2
1829 – Park Road Welsh Congregational Church built – Demolished c 1986
1829 – Rainhill Trials – won by the Stephensons ‘Rocket’. George Stephenson lived for a time at 34 Upper Parliament St
1829 – Vauxhall Gas Works – Liverpool Gas Light Co (1815) – off Lower Burlington St/Eccles St
1829 – First Liverpool Cooperative Society formed by John Finch
c1829 – Grecian Hotel – Dale St – façade still in place (opposite Stanley St)
1829/30 – Wapping Goods and Crown St Passenger/Edge Hill Tunnels – first in the world under a metropolis.
1830 – Edge Hill and Crown St Stations – passenger terminus for Liverpool-Manchester Railway
1830 – Liverpool – Manchester Railway opened: world’s first true passenger – line 15th Sept. Edge Hill – Wapping Tunnel with Moorish arch by John Foster Jnr – demolished 1860
1830 – Seven private banks now exist in Liverpool – normally larger merchants
c1830 – Boundary St laid out – division between Liverpool/Kirkdale
1830 – Wavertree Botanic Gardens – Edge Lane (relocated from Mount Pleasant)
c1830 – 18-19 Abercromby Square built for CK Prioleau, a South Carolina businessman whose firm supported the Confederate cause in the American Civil War. Bishop Chavasse also lived here and Noel Chavasse VC winner
1830 – The Grange – farmhouse – Edge Lane/Botanic Rd
c1830 – Harrington Chambers – North John St – as shops and offices
1830 – St Augustines – Shaw St Everton built. Destroyed in The Blitz
1830 – Brougham Terrace built – (1889 no. 8 becomes Britain’s first mosque) – later became Register Office til 2000
1830 – St Annes’s Stanley – Tuebrook – Prescot Rd – rebuilt 1890
1830 – Stanley Meat Market – abattoir (1931)
1830 – Horse-drawn buses introduced
1830 – The American Bar – now Irish American – Lime St
c1830 – Clare Terrace, Marmaduke St
1830 – Falkner Square completed – became public garden in 1835 – built by Edward Falkner. Falkner Terrace, Upper Parliament St completed by 1831, restored 1986
1830 – Liverpool Branch of Temperance Movement founded
C1830/33 – 75 -79 Bold St
1830 – Clarence Dock opened for new steamers – first to include continuous covered sheds – filled in in 1929 for power station site. 1.3m Irish immigrants passed through Clarence Dock 1845-52
1830 – Arthur Leyand builds New Hall – Norris Green – ‘New Hall Lane’ (Townsend Ave/Broadway) demolished 1931 for new estate housing
1830s – Percy St
1831 – Population of Everton 40,000, total population 205,000
1831 – Dublin St and Saltney St laid out off Great Howard St – most northerly at this time
1831 – St Judes Church, Hardwick St – site of The Royal now
1831 – St Catherine’s church Abercromby Sq.
1831 – Bank of Liverpool founded (merges with Martins 1918, renamed Martins Bank in 1928) site of Golden Talbot Inn 34 Brunswick St
1831 – Worlds first steam powered fire engine purchased by Liverpool Docks Committee
1831 – St Martins Market – Bevington Hill – presents one front to Scotland-road, and another to Bevington Bush. Later becomes known as Paddy’s Market when 34 Banastre St market moves in – Paddy’s was a general market – clothes and ‘rags’. Moves to Great Homer St after 2nd World War
1831 – Second Lunatic Asylum – Ashton St/Brownlow St –
1831 – 30th June William Roscoe dies
1832 – First recorded evidence of ‘The Parks Police’
c1832 – John Mayor Threlfall starts brewing business in Crosbie St – then Trueman St 1847
1832 – Cholera outbreak kills 1532 people. Kitty Wilkinson allows house to be used as wash house
1832 – Christ Church School – Christian St. Demolished in 1939
1832 – Israel Barned and Co. of Liverpool began business – bank
1832/36 – Edward Lear employed by Earl of Derby at Knowsley
1833 – Great fire in Lancelots Hey (off Chapel St) – New Quay
1833 – Liverpool Zoological Gardens – Mr Atkins – Boaler Rd/Sheil Rd as is – was Plumpton Hollow
1833 – St Anthony’s Church – Scotland Rd. In 1847 2,303 men, women and children were buried at St Anthony’s – Irish famine. The crypt contains 660 individual burial vaults
1833 – Merchants Coffee House, Chapel St/south west of church yard was demolished
1833 – Two small chapels were built between St Patrick’s and Warwick St. Park Place Chapel was built on Park Road
1833 – Michael James Whitty took up his appointment as Superintendent of the Liverpool Town Police Night Watch.
1833 – 10th Jan – Liverpool Medical Society founded
c1833 – St James Market – end of Great George St opens. Demolished in 1899
1833/34 – First India Buildings for George Holt – Water St
1833/34 – St Matthias Church built in Love Lane. Was acquired by the railway and moved to Great Howard St/Vulcan St 1848/49 and closed 1949
1834 – City Fire Brigade formed – became part of city police force in 1836 – ‘fire bobby’s
1834 – Barker & Dobson start trading in Paradise St
1834 – Liverpool New Gas & Coke Company Works – Athol St
1834 – Royal Northern Hospital (later David Lewis Hosp) – No. 1 Leeds St, expanded to Gt Howard St in 1844
1834 – Hallsal Seager and Co Brewery added to The Bush in Bevington Bush
1835 – Deane Rd Jewish Cemetery. Many prestigious Liverpool people are buried at the cemetery such as David Lewis (founder of Lewis’s store) and the founder of H.Samuel jewellers as well as Charles Mozely, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Liverpool
1834 – Waterloo Dock opens – altered in 1868 by GF Lyster. Originally had three blocks of warehouses – north demolished after war damage, west stack demolished 1969
1835 – City boundaries extended to include: Kirkdale, Everton, Toxteth, West Derby – more taxes now raised
1835 – Whigs oust the Tories after more than 50 years control of Liverpool
1835 – Liverpool Town Borough Police formed
1835 – Liverpool Mechanics School of Arts – Mount St, then Mechanics Institution then Liverpool Institute High School for Boys (closes 1985)
1835 – Liverpool Salvage Corp formed
1835/37 – Liverpool Medical Institute – corner Hope St/Mount Pleasant
1835 – Liverpool becomes an Assize town
1835 – Judges lodgings in St Anne St, corner of Mansfield St, (they move to Newsham House in 1868)
1835 – Worlds first passenger railway timetable
1830s – Northend and Southend Abbatoirs – Trowbridge St
1836 – Lime St Station opened by J.Foster jnr. Rebuilt 1849, 1867, 1874 south vault added – streets disappear: Gloucester St, Hanley St, Disley St, Poyton St, Norbury St. Skelhorne St re-routed as is. Screen wall by John Foster Jnr (demolished 1868 when the hotel was built)
1836 – St James-the-less Primary School – Athol St
1836 – New grandstand at Aintree r’course – Captain Becher rides ‘The Duke’. 1839 first ‘national’ (official name in 1847)
1836 – Trafalgar dock opened – part filled in early 1990’s
1836 – Botanic Gardens move to Edge Lane – surrounding public park opens in 1856
1836 – North and South Wales Bank founded – Welsh builders – Cook St
1836 – Gambier Terrace built – John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe share a flat here in 1960 – No. 3
1826 – Liverpool Domestic Mission Society founded
836 – Liverpool Stock Exchange – Sweeting St. Moved to Exchange St East in 1879
1836 – The artist and theosophist Isabelle de Steiger (née Lace) was born at 2 Canning Street
1836 – The Liverpool City Police replaced the Night Watch and the Corporation Constabulary. On the 9th February Michael James Whitty was appointed Liverpool’s First Head Constable
1836 – Waterloo Cup – hare coursing starts (Altcar) – conceived in Waterloo Hotel Liverpool, Earl of Sefton/William Lyn
1836/37 – Peter Walker Snr moves to Liverpool, and starts brewery at 43 Prince Edwin St in 1845
1836/37 – St Annes Church Aigburth
1837 – Crescent Congregational Chapel – Everton Brow/Crescent
1837 – Grand National – Earl of Sefton/William Lynn
1837 – St Mary’s Cemetery. Became Lester Gardens off Walton Rd in 1898
1837 – West Derby Union formed
1837 – Liverpool Chess Club formed at the Lyceum
1837/38 – Grand Junction Railway opened – linked Liverpool to Birmingham via Newton Junction
1837 – Fish Market – Rose Street/Gt Charlotte St next to Royal Amphitheatre.
1837 – Liverpool now linked to Birmingham and London via train
1837 – In the late 18th and early 19th Century a Triennial Music Festival had been held in Liverpool, discussion’s start on providing a big enough venue eventually leads to building of St Georges Hall
1837 – Hope Hall – later Church of St John – then concert hall – Hope Hall Cinema 1912/63 – Everyman Theatre 1964 – rebuilt 1975/77
1837/45 – West Derby Union Workhouse – becomes Mill Rd Maternity Hospital 1871 – closes 1993
1837/39 – Queens Building and Avenue – off Dale St/Castle St – built for The Royal Bank.Dale St was widened.
1838 – Liverpools first steamer to cross Atlantic direct – Royal William – took 19 days
1838 – The Liverpool Polytechnic Society was established on 23rd October 1838
1838 – Last of merchants, Thomas Tobin, moves out of Bold St as it becomes all shops
1838 – Schweppes open a factory at 148 London Rd
1838 – 19th Oct – first iron built sailing-ship in Liverpool by Messrs Jackson, Gordon &Co launched – The Ironsides
1838/40 – Castle Moat House – built for North and South Wales Bank
1839 – 5th Customs House & Revenue Building opened. Demolished after being damaged in The Blitz
1839 – Additional canal arm towards Vauxhall Rd parallel to Charters St
1839 – Gas Pumping Station – Rose Hill – becomes Bridewell in 1849 see below
1839 – Pembroke Chapel – Pembroke Place/Crown St
1839 – St Saviour’s – Falkner Sq
1839 – Fish Market in James St taken down
1839 – The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society set up to help victims of the great hurricane which hit the Irish Channel and Liverpool on 7^th/8th January
1839 – Mornington Terrace – Upper Duke St – row of 5 houses
1840/41 – Great George St Church – now ‘The Blackie’
1840 – Mrs. James Aikin forms first female orphangage in Stanhop St – moves to Edge Lane in 1843
c1840 – Albert Pub – Lark Lane
1840 – The Mersey is charted by Capt Henry Mangles Dengham, Resident Marine Surveyor of the Port of Liverpool
1840 – First performance by Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
1840 – Barned’s Building – Sweeting St (originally Elbow’s Lane) -headquarters of Barned’s Bank
1840s – North Shore cotton mills develop around canal (north of Boundary St) , but a short lived industry in Liverpool – changed to flour & rice mills
1840 – Coburg Dock opened, enlarged 1858
c1840 – Marldon Chambers – Clarence Building, North John St
c1840 – Teutonic Hall (St James Hall)- Lime St – became Palais De Lux Cinema. Downstairs housed Allsops Royal Waxworks or Crystal Palace Waxworks
c1840 – Woodlands on Anfield Rd – oldest surviving of the villas – once home of Henry Tate – extended in 1910 as Queen Mary High School for Girls. Now Abbey Lawns Nursing Home
1840’s – St Domingo Grove and Vale laid out – villa developments
1840 – Franz Liszt composer and virtuoso pianist; performed at the Theatre Royal, 1 Dec
c1840 – Many industrial works in Vauxhall
1840 – Girls Orphanage – 97 Upper Stanhope St
1840 – Cunard awarded transatlantic mail
1840’s – Fulwood Park, Cressington Park, Grassendale Park laid out – posh!!!
1840 – The Hall of Science’ -Nelson St – a spacious building with a gallery on three sides, and had a seating capacity of 2,700 persons. Became Nelson Assembly Rooms by 1843, then commercial premises
1840 – Joseph Williamson dies on 1st of May 1840 aged 71 years and was buried with his wife and her family in the Tate family vault located within the graveyard of St Thomas’ Church
1841 – Work starts on St Georges Hall
1841 – Liverpool Poor Law Parish comes into being under 25 member Board of Guardians
1841 – Church of St Clements – Beaumont St – still there
1841 – Church of the Holy Apostles, Canning Street
1841 – Toxteth Dock
1841/45 – Dukes Dock extended with a half-tide dock
1841/42 – Salthouse Dock remodelled & enlarged
1841 – The population of Everton was 9,221. By 1901 it had risen to 121,469. The merchants had moved further out of Liverpool and rows and rows of terrace housing had been built
1841 – Docks Watch/Police merge with City Police
1841 – The South End Homeopathic Dispensary was established at 41 Frederick Street by John James Drysdale,
1841 – The Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Association formed
1841 – Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children – Horatio Street, Scotland Road. Then in October 1845 it transferred to Pembroke Place. In 1862 a new hospital was built in Myrtle Street.
1841 – St Bartholomews – Naylor St, Vauxhall
1841 – St. Anne’s Church, Overbury Street – presbytery 1841, church opened 1846 – still there
1842 – The Mersey Conservancy Act of 1842 established the Mersey Conservancy Commission whose officers acted on behalf of the Monarch, who was the ‘conservator of all navigable rivers’. Since 1858 the navigation authority for the Estuary has been the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
1842/44 – Canning half-dock
1841/51 – Population jumps from 223,000 in 1841 to 376,000 in 1851 – many Irish
c1842 – Bonded Tea House – 177 Gt Howard St. Originally Clarence’s Warehouse – Liverpool’s largest when built.
1842 – Kitty Wilkinson brought about the opening of Britain’s first combined public baths and wash house at Upper Frederick Street
1842 – Southern and Toxteth Hosp first opened in Greenland St, Toxteth. Later Caryl St (1872)
c1842 – 8/ 10 Benson St – offices of Samuel & James Holme (building contractors) – still there
1842 – There are over 140 warehouse fires – one in Formby St resulted in £500,000 loss destroying nine warehouses
1842 – St Georges Skin Hospital, Grenville St South
1842 – Vauxhall Rd Chimney stack – alkali works – 250ft high! – demolished 1921
1842 – Liverpool Building Act – led to start of housing improvements and planning laws for courts
1842/43 – The Brownlow Hill Workhouse was enlarged with Henry F Lockwood and Thomas Allom as architects
1843 – Act of Parliament allows use of water from the Mersey to be used for street cleaning, sewer flushing and fire fighting
1843 – Building Act covering fire regs for warehouses
1843 – Dr Duncan issues pamphlet highlighting the plight of those living in courts and slums, and cellar dwellings
1843 – Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society founded as burial club
1843 – Corporation buys site of Wavertree Hall (Plumbes Hall) as intended site for a gaol. Walled Garden laid out in 1856
1843 – Scotland Road United Methodist (Wesleyan Methodist Association until 1857, United Methodist Free Church until 1907). Later became Derby Cinema
1843 – Liverpool College – Shaw St, Everton – Harvey Lonsdale Elmes. From 1863 Upper school called Liverpool Collegiate – moves to Lodge Lane in 1884-87.
1843 – Select Vestry erected Kirkdale Industrial School for the care and training of pauper children on what is now Westminster Road at Kirkdale. Became Kirkdale Homes for elderly in 1904, renamed Westminster House in 1950s.
1843 – Myrtle St Orphan Asylum for Girls – 1854 saw the building of the Boy’s orphan asylum and at the same time the Church of the Holy Innocents
1843 – Princes Park laid out – private – Dickinson’s Dingle damned to form lake
1843/45 – Hartley adds half-tide dock to Dukes Dock.
1844 – Mersey Yacht Club founded
1844 – Girls School established in Blackburne House – Mrs Frances Elizabeth Davies was the school’s first Matron and Head Governess
1844 – Construction starts on Birkenhead Docks
1844 – St Anthony’s School – Newsham St (next to church) Scottie Rd
1844 – Myrtle St Baptist Church
1844 – Charles Dickens gives speech at Mechanics Institute – Mount St – 26^th Feb
1844 – Liverpool’s first gymnasium – Cook St – Lewis Huguenin
1844 – Thomas Sands, Mayor of Liverpool, called a public meeting on 18 October to make arrangements for the establishment of a ‘Sailors’ Home, Registry and Savings Bank for Seamen’
1844 – Liverpool Warehouse Act – because of fires, stopped timber built warehouses
1844 – Thomas Fresh appointed as Inspector of Nuisances on 4th Sept
1844/45 – Kardomah Coffee Company founded in Pudsey St. Cafes in Bold St, Church St (now Goldsmiths)
1845 – Brownlow Hill workhouse rebuilt – held several thousand people
1845 – Royal Insurance founded – became Royal & Sun aAlliance
1845 – Disaster at Sussex St Toxteth – 6 killed when a huge iron tank that was being erected by the Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Company burst – Acorn Court as is Toxteth
1845 – High Park St Reservoir – Toxteth – still there.
1845 – Ruperts Cottage demolished?
1845 – In February rooms were taken in Stanley Buildings, Bath Street and opened as a Seamen’s Savings bank, Shipping Office and Registry
1845 – Liverpool Observatory opened – Waterloo Dock – also One O’clock Gun – demolished when grain houses built 1868
1845 – Thomas Cook first ever trip for profit to Liverpool from Leicester
1845 – White Star Line founded in Liverpool
1843/47 – Albert Dock (Jesse Hartley) – Opened 1845
1846 – Newsham House – purchaced by Liverpool Council, 240 acre estate for £85,000
1846 – Princes Road (boulevard) laid out, Upper parliament St to Princes Park – built up from 1860’s
1846 – 23rd November – Clarence Temperence Hall opened
1846 – 31st July – Prince Albert lays foundation stone for Sailors Home
1846 – Hartfield House, which became Calder High School, was built by Charles Wilson
c1846 – The Apothecaries’ Hall, in Colquitt/Wood-street – very grand, back part remains on Seel St
c1846 – Piermasters House – only surviving one of 4 built at Albert Dock and 40 in total
1846 – Crown St Goods Tunnel
1846 – Liverpool Sanitary Act – sewers, drainage, paving of roads,
1846 – Council appoints country’s first Medical Officer of Health – Dr William Henry Duncan
1846 – 27 Castle St – offices for Ambrose Lace, attorney – still there
1846 – William Lassel of West Derby discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune
1846 – Well sank at Green Lane West Derby, and reservoir in Kensington
1846 – The Clarence Temperance Hall, 23rd Nov
1846 – May – Liverpool Telegraph Shipping Gazette published
1846 – System of Master Porterage introduced by Docks Committee
1846 – John Foster jnr dies and is buried at St James Cemetry
1846 – Bevington Bush Baths (Paul St Baths)
1846 – Liverpool YMCA formed
1846/48 – Bank of England – Castle St (between Union Court-Cook St) – C.R. Cockerell
1846/47 – Norwich Union Building – 27 Castle St (next to Bank of England)
1847 – Liverpool Landing Stage – Iron floating stage for Pier Head ferry – Georges Dock
1847 – Immigration from Ireland due to Potato Famine hits peak
1847 – Statue of William Huskisson unveiled by Sir Robert Peel outside Customs House
1847 – James Newland appointed as City Engineer – idea for Queens Drive
1847- J A Picton builds Sandy Knowe for himself – Wavertree
1847 – Over 5000 cellar dwellings declared unfit for human habitation
1847 – An Act of Parliament allows the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company to transport goods along the canal and compete better with railways
1847 – Liverpool Water Act – allows city to look outside of boundaries for water supplies, and buy the two water companies
1847 – Threlfalls Brewery in Trueman St. Closed in 1982
1847 – The Fairrie Sugar Refinery – Vauxhall Lane – merges with Tate & Lyle in 1929
1847 – Charles Dickens performs at the Theatre Royal, Williamson Square, on 28th July
1847 – Newington Buildings – Newington off Renshaw St
c1847 – St Joseph’s RC Church – Grovsenor St, on site of previous church – demolished 1979
1847 – Fever Sheds – Mount Pleasant
1847 – Holy Trinity Church – Breck Rd – still there
1848 – St Francis Xaviers church – school 1857, college 1877 – Salisbury St Everton (sold to council 1941). Charlie Chaplin attended SFX school in 1900
1848 – Salisbury Dock – Collingwood Dock – Stanley Dock – Bramley Moore Dock – Nelson Dock
1848 – Salisbury Dock Masters Office
1848 – Victoria Tower and Dock Masters House, Salisbury Dock – still there
1848 – Link between Leeds/Liverpool Canal and Stanley Docks – Jesse Hartley – only all granite locks in UK
c1848 – Boys’ Refuge Industrial School for Catholic Boys – founded by Christian brothers – Soho St 1848 – Ocean Monarch sinks off Llandudno – 178 die
1848 – Dock Traffic Office (Albert Dock, old Granada TV Building)
1848 – Christ’s Church Great Homer St. Destroyed in The Blitz
1848 – St Paul’s CofE Church Belvidere Rd – Princes Park
1848 – Hydraulic warehouse hoists installed in Albert Dock – a world first
1848 – 14/16 Bold St, frontage by1861 – for John Cripps, shawl merchant and manufacturer
1848 – Roscoe Arcade is in place in Bold St
1848/71 – Sewer System built by James Newlands. Newlands original sewering of the city to convey foul drainage to the river was the major factor in eliminating typhoid and cholera
1848 – Great Howard St Railway Station opened (converted to goods station when Exchange opened in 1850)
1848 – Liverpool Trade Guards Association formed
1848 – Waterloo Goods Station opens – between Oil St/Formby St
1848 – St Edwards College – St Domingo House
1848 – Everton Barracks – Ruperts Lane
1848 – Amalgamation by A.o.P of Liverpool Gas Light Company and the New Gas and Coke Company to form the Liverpool United Gas Company
1849 – Philarmonic Hall built – burned and rebuilt 1933 – H.J.Rowse
1849 – Father Nugent finds Ragged School in Copperas Hill
1849 – St Augustines Church – Great Howard St – Demolished 1976
1849 – St Peters Church – Sackville St Everton
1849 -Victoria-Waterloo Tunnel
1849 – Allerton Tower based on a design by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes
1849 – St. Alban’s, Athol Street opened
1849 – Liverpool Industrial School for Girls – 39 Northumberland Terrace
1849 – The Jhelum, a fine 3-masted bark, was built at Queens Dock by Joseph Steel & Son for their own account – hulk remains still in Port Stanley, Falklands
1849 – Rose Hill Bridewell – (previously gas pumping station) – closed 1972
1849 – Leveson St Masacre – renamed Grenville St South
1849/51 – Institute for the Blind – Hardman St. (see 1800 – moved here brick by brick from London Rd)
1850 – First LYR railway station on Tithebarn, later rebuilt/expanded by Exchange Station in 1888 (closed 1977 replaced by Moorfields) – streets lost – Key Street – Plumbe St – McViccar St – Lumbar St
1850 – Liverpool Sailors Home opened 16th Dec – Canning Place – finally demolished in 1974
c1850 – Seel House – Seel St – for T. & T. Vickers & Co., engineers and iron founders. Now Base2stay
1850 – Royal Liver Friendly Society formed as a burial club. Registered 14th Aug, first office 14 Pickop St. It was formed by 9 working men in a pub known as the Lyver Inn
1850/54 – Walton Gaol built- first hanging 1887
1851/55 – Wapping Dock Warehouses
1849/52 – Kirkdale beach becomes docks – Wellington, Huskinson, Sandon
1850 – Toxteth has now grown beyond Park St
c1850 – Midland Railway Goods Station – completed 1874 – now Conservation Centre – Whitechapel/Crosshall St
1850 – The Royal Coliseum Theatre and Music Hall, in Liverpool’s Paradise Street opened
1850 – Modern Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
1850 – Creation of Liverpool Diocese
1850 – St Nicholas pro cathedral Copperas Hill, demolished 1972
1850 – St John’s National School – Great Crosshall St – still there
1850 – Artist Sarah Biffen dies, buried at St James Cemetery
1850 – Sandon Dock – modernised 1901 (biggest entrance in port) still open
1850 – Robert Cain opens pub in Limekiln Lane; Opens brewery in Stanhope St in 1858
1851 – Bootle still a separate village
1851 – Liverpool Infirmary becomes Royal Liverpool Infirmary following visit by Queen Victoria
1851 – St Mary’s, the Chapel of the School for the Indigent Blind, Hardman Street/Hope Street
1851 – Population 376,000
1851 – Sandfield Tower – West Derby
1851 – ‘Warehouse keepers’ more prominent – now 16 listed
1851 – During excavations at junction of Lord St/Whitechapel/Paradise St find stone arches of the old ‘pool bridge’
1851 – 13th Earl of Derby dies and leaves collections to museum
1851/52 – James Baines – The Black Ball Line – clippers to Australia,
1851 – Cornwallis St Baths. – Closed 1967
1852 – Derby Museum of the Borough of Liverpool – original Museum of Liverpool opened in Union building on corner of Parr St/Slater St – still there – attracted 157,861 visits in its first 32 weeks
1852 – Egyptian Museum – Colquitt St – Joseph Mayer
1852 – Grove Park laid out (Lodge Lane/Sefton Pk Rd)
1852 – Ye Cracke – Rice St (originally The Ruthin Castle)
1852 – St Judes School (associated with church)
1852 – Huskisson Dock opened – enlarged 1860’s
1852 – Wapping Basin and Dock – Kings Dock narrowed by 60ft to accommodate
1852 – Baths Committee established
1852 – Athol St Bridewell – demolished 1970’s
1852/55 – Stanley Dock Hydraulic Power Centre to West of North Stanley Warehouse, Regent Road
1852/54 – North Fort constructed
1852/53 – Samuel Holme Mayor – idea for civic area in William Brown St
1852/53 – Liverpool’s first Public Library and Museum – Duke St/Slater St
1853 – George Henry Lee founded as a bonnet shop – 12 Basnett St (rebuilt 1910) – Eventually taken over by John Lewis’s together with Bon Marche
1853 – There are now 32 Ragged Schools open in Liverpool
c1853 – Holy Cross Catholic School, Fontenoy St
1853 – Notre Dame High School – Maryland St
1853 – West Derby Church – St Mary’s
1853 – Park Hill Reservoir, Toxteth – still there
1853 – Garston Docks opened – chiefly for coal
1853 – Nathanial Hawthorne arrives as American consul. Also lodged at 153 Duke St, boarding house ran by Mrs Mary Blodgett
1853 – Father Nugent founds The Catholic Institute – Hope St
1853 – Prescot St. Bridewell
1853/54 – Albert Dock – The west and east ends of the south stack of warehouses (now Britannia Pavilion) are built, to meet demand for more accommodation
1854 – Mersey Rowing Club formed
1854 – St Georges Hall opens (Harvey Lonsdale Elms)
1854 – Palatine Club – 7 Bold St/Rotunda Place. Formed in 1835 in an existing building higher up Bold St on same side
1854 – Church of the Holy Innocents opens. Demolished 1934 for Myrtle Gardens
1854 – A mass snow-ball fight takes place in Exchange Flags
1854 – Robert Cain buys larger brewery on Wilton St
1854 – St Chrysostom church Audley St – demolished 1970
1855 – Cranmer Methodist, Vauxhall Road
1855 – Liverpool Daily Post first published – 1d
1855 – Houses on south side of Shaws Brow removed, street widened and graveyard extended. Creates an open vista to St Georges Hall
1855 – Hunger riots in liverpool – Bread Riots
1855 – Training ship TS Akbar
1855 – Jones, Quiggan & Co founded – ship builders
1855 – Stanley Dock North & South Warehouses
1855 -Liverpool Improvement Act 15th July allows for work on Shaws Brow/William Brown St to accommodate museum, library. Plot of land on corner of Byrom St/Shaw’s Brow bought from a Mr. Bradshaw for £3,500
1855 – Liverpool Corporation buys Birkenhead Docks – £1,143,000
1855 – Area between Crosshall and Sir Thomas St cleared (including Saracens Head, Flying Horse, Old White Lion Inn) eventually site of Municipal Buildings. Site of Charles Hengler’s circus (permanent site) opened 15th March 1857
1856/58 – Liverpool and London Globe Insurance Building, No. 1 Dale Street. Site of original Town Hall. A police station also here as late as 1848
1856 – Lewis’s Dept Store founded – women’s added 1864. In 1879 holds worlds first Christmas grotto in Bon March.
1856 – The second Tower called Tower Buildings, a large Italianate office block by J. A. Picton. Demolished in the early 20th century.
1856 – Short arm built off/below first lock of Stanley Basin for the Bridgwater Canal
1856 – The Liverpool College for Girls at Grove Street was established
1856 – Tower Buildings rebuilt and Water St widened
1856 – The writer Jessie Vaizey (née Bell) was born at number 47 Myrtle Street South
1856 – The 21ton Horsfall Gun built at Mersey Forge Sefton St – largest in world – could fire a 300lb cannon ball five miles
1856 – The Sisters of Notre Dame open Our Lady’s Training College, a Roman Catholic college for women – Mount Pleasant – still there part of LJMU
1856 – Four Liverpool Park keepers appointed
1856 – Corporation acquires Stable Yard in Edgehill after Williamson dies
1856/58 – Albany Building – Old Hall St – J.K.Colling for wealthy banker Richard Christopher Naylor
1856 – Hebrew Congregation Synagogue – now Unity Theatre – Hope Place – Thomas Wylie
1856 – Policeman’s Lodge at Wapping Dock
1856 – St Vincent De Paul Church – St James St/Hardy St – still there
1856 – Catholic Apostolic Church, Catharine Street/Canning St
1856 – St Aidan – Latham St, Kirkdale
1856 – All Souls Church – Eaton St, by canal
1856 – Wapping Hydraulic Tower
1856 – Wavertree Botanic Gardens opened out top the public
1856 – Toxteth Cemetery opened – William Gay of Bradford was charged with the design, and Thomas Denville Barry the architecture, first interment was that of an Elizabeth Watling on 17th June 1856.
1857 – Main Bridewell Prison – Cheapside
c1857 – Conway St/Gordon St/Elias St laid out
1857 – Toxteth Union formed – The parish of Toxteth Park originally formed part of the West Derby Union which came into existence in 1837. However, on 24th June 1857 it became an independent Poor Law Parish
1857 – Liverpool Salvage Assoc. founded
1857 – Thomas and James Harrison bought their first iron hulled sailing ship, ‘The Philosopher’
1857 – Second public aquarium in the world opened within Derby Museum – Duke St/Slater St
1857 – Liverpool Football (Rugby) Club formed – first open rugby club in the world – (now Liverpool St Helens, 1986)
1857 – Liverpool Borough Bank goes bust
1857 – James Carling – pavement artist – born at 38 Addison St
1857 – Mersey Docks and Harbour Board formed. Arose out of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Manchester Commercial Assoc. and GWR proposing a bill to parliament. Ill-feeling had existed for years due to merchants using port believing Liverpool only used money to benefit the town and not the Port. Remit of MDHB – levies and taxes to be used for the benefit of The Port of Liverpool. Liverpool Corporation receives £1.5million compensation for loss of dues, and £1.143m for Birkenhead Docks.
1856/57 – Pugin Lady Chapel – Our Lady of The Immaculate Conception – St Domingo Road
1856/57 – High Level Coal Railway – Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway – Bramley-Moore Dock
1857 – The water area in 1857 amounted to 192 acres 129 sq. yds., or an increase of over 82 acres in twenty-five years. River wall extended just over 5 miles
1857 – Liverpool branch of the Mercantile Marine Service Association was established in order to improve the competence and standards of the ships, officers and men
1857 – Princes Landing Stage opens 1st Sept
1857 – Mount Vernon Green Girls’ Reformatory School opens
1857 – Outdoor Gymnasium- Smithdown Rd – Charles Melly
1857 – The first general meeting of the newly formed County Palatine Loan and Investment Company Clarendon Rooms on 4 September 1857
1857 – Rivington Water Works completed, water delivered to Everton Water Tower
1857 – Dec – two captured guns from battle in Sebastopol placed outside St Georges – later moved to Wavertree Park
1857/59 – Magistrates Courts – Dale St
1858 – Scarletina (scarlet fever) epidemic results in the death of over 1,100 children
c1858 – St Georges Industrial School – Everton Crescent, moves to West Derby Rd (later Ogdens site)
1858 – Robert Cain acquires existing ‘Mersey’ brewery – Cains Brewery – red brick building and tower – Stanhope St. Buys it from George Hindley vicar of St Georges Everton
1858 – 25 Church St – for art metalworkers and electroplaters Elkington’s – now Clarks Shoes
1858 – Langdon’s’ Building – corner of Nelson St –
1858 – Major developments in progress at Birkenhead Docks
1858 – Steamer Douglas, starts operating for the Isle of Man Steam Packet – sold to the Confederacy, renamed Margaret and Jessie, and operated as a blockade runner until her capture by the Union on 5th November 1863. The ship was renamed USS Gettysburg, and commissioned into the Union Navy on 2nd May 1864.
1858 – Liverpool Society for the Relief of Sick and Distressed Needlewomen.
1858 – Liverpool Steam Ship Owners’ Association formed
1858 – Holy Trinity Church – Parliament St
1858 – Havelock Buildings – corner of Bold St/Berry St – contained Stortz’s Photographic Art Studios
1858 – Museum of Anatomy in Paradise (Street)
1858 – Reynolds Wax Works – Lime St
1858/59 – Henry Morton Stanley – the man who immortalised the phrase, “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” – lived at 20 Roscommon St
1859 – Start of the Volunteer Force/Movement for riflemen/artillery corps – forerunner of TAs
1859 – Sinking of The Royal Charter – 26th Oct off Anglesey/Moelfra
1859 – Canada Dock opens, enlarged 1896
1859 – Liverpool Geological Society founded
1859 – Hargreaves Building – No. 5 Chapel St – carved stone heads of historical figures associated with Latin America
1859 – HMS Conway – training ship
1859 – Evangelist Revival gathers pace in Liverpool
1859 – UKs first tramway in Liverpool docks
1859 – 33 drinking fountains inserted into dock wall
1859 – 11 Dale St – Queen Insurance Co – J A Picton, also housed Liver Sketching Club from 3rd Jan 1891 until 1973
c1859 – Phrenological Institute 30 Mount Pleasant
1859 – Export Carriage and Wheelworks, St Anne Street
1859 – With Nightingale’s full support and encouragement William Rathbone founded the District Nursing Service in Liverpool
1859 – The Crown Hotel Lime St
1859 – Toxteth Workhouse – Smithdown Rd – became Smithdown Road Institution and then Sefton General Hospital. Large hospital extension added by 1905. Mental Wards added 1927
1859 – Ford Catholic Cemetry – Bootle
1859 – Pekin Buildings – Harrington St
c1860 – The Liverpool Road and Railway Omnibus Company formed by
1860 – Thomas Ogden opens shop in Park Lane – see 1899 Boundary Lane factory
1860 – Holy Cross Church – Standish St – near to pilgrimage site – site of St Patricks Cross. Demolished in 2003
1860 – William Brown Museum and Free Library opened – all but façade destroyed in Blitz, rebuilt 1957
1860 – St Johns Lane widened – steps leading to south portico of St Georges removed?
1860 – The Rotunda Theatre Scotland/Stanley Rd – rebuilt 1878. Damaged in the Blitz
1860 – Satirical newspaper The Porcupine founded
1860 – Robert Cain is landlord of Transatlantic Hotel on Stanhope St
c1860 – Russell Buildings – School lane/Peters lane – still there
c1860 – Lombard Chambers – Ormond/Bixteth St – offices
1860 – Kitty Wilkinson dies aged 74
1860 – Jesse Hartley dies on 24th Aug aged 80
1860 – There are now 5 hotels in Clayton Sq. – Feathers, Neptune, London, Brunswick and Temperance Hotel
1860 – First Chinese immigrant sailors as a result of employment by Alfred Holt and Company establishing the Blue Funnel Shipping Line.
1860 – The Fiery Cross launched – famous tea clipper – built by Chaloner of Liverpool, designed by William Rennie
1860 – 29th April – fire at Sailors Home
1860 – Charles Kuhn Prioleau and Mary Elizabeth WRIGHT were married on 3rd May 1860 in Walton-on-the-Hill Church
1860 – Oakfield villas built – Breckfield off Oakfield Rd
1860 – The Denbigh built at Birkenhead and runs from Liverpool-Rhyl
1860’s – Exchange Buildings rebuilt – hydraulic lifts incorporated in 1866
1861 – 12th April, a bloody 4 years in American history begin as Confederates open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter. To have big impact on Liverpool
1861 – population 555,000
1861- Prince of Wales Theatre – Clayton Square – was residence of Mrs Clayton, eventually becomes The Jacey Cinema
1861/65 – Commander Bulloch was the Confederate States’ Navy secret purchasing agent in Liverpool during the American Civil War (1861-65) who operated out of the offices at Rumford Court/Place – Offices of Fraser, Trenholme (cotton) – senior partner was Charles Kuhn Prioleau. Henry Lafone was Confederate secret agent based in Liverpool. Due to her strong trading links with North America, and especially with the cotton-producing Confederate States of the south, Liverpool played a very important part in the American Civil War
1861/72 – Thomas Haines Dudley – US Consul in Liverpool – Unionist spy
1861 – 80th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers formed, HQ on 59 Everton Rd from 1884
1861/63 – Richmond Building 26 Chapel St (JA Picton for William Brown)
1861 – Liverpool – Holyhead Electric Telegraph
1861 – Leigh Bridge – Athol St, over canal – still there
1861 – Quaker cemetery – Arundel Ave off Smithdown – still there but no buildings
1861 – Bridewell – Argyle/Campbell St – dates from 1850 – still present
1861 – IK Brunels ‘Great Eastern’ sails from Liverpool on route to Quebec. On board – the 4/60th Rifles, consisting of 2,144 officers and men, 473 women and children and 200 horses
1861 – Liverpool Rubber Co founded – 292 Vauxhall Road
1861 – Jean Francois Blondin – world famous tightrope walker – Plumptons Hollow (Sheil Rd/Boaler St)
1861 – Liverpool Savings Bank H/O – 93 Bold St
1861 – James Dunwoody Bulloch arrives in Liverpool from Confederacy with orders for 6 steam vessels to blockade the Union
1862 – The 1st Grand Olympic Festival in Liverpool was held on 14th June 1862 at the Mount Vernon Parade Ground with 10,000 spectators
1862 – Rotunda Gymnasium – Bold St next to Lyceum
1862 – Liverpool Hospital for Cancer and Skin Diseases moved in 1882 and becomes The Radium Institute – 1950s to Clatterbridge)
1862 – Brocklebank Dock – Bootle now developing rapidly – beach disappears
c1862 – Stanley Rd laid out, Vauxhall Rd extended as Commercial Rd
1862 – Castle Shipping Line founded – Donald Currie – Liverpool to Calcutta
1862 – CSS Florida secretly leaves Liverpool on 22nd March – American Civil War against the Union – built by William C Miller and Sons
1862 – On September 7th, a serious fire at the Brownlow workhouse destroyed the church and one of the children’s dormitories. Twenty-one children and two nurses were burnt to death
1862 – Major Street Ragged School – Canon Major Lester
1862 – Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses established
1862 – The Laird Rams – built for Confederacy at Birkenhead but never deployed
1862 – St Michael’s RC Church – Horne St/West Derby Rd
1862 – Henry Tate also started his own refinery at 1 Earle Street (east of Old Hall Street), and 2 years later added a molasses refinery at 1-3 Edmund Street. Moves to Love Lane in 1872
1862 – Sheil Road and Sheil Park opened
1862 – Sefton Park Cricket Club formed, Smithdown Rd – move to Sefton park in 1876
c1862 – Liverpool Dispensary for Diseases of the Teeth – 82 Russell St
1863 – Wellington Statue – 16th May.
1863 – Anfield Cemetery – Included 3 chapels – one remains
1863 – First ‘Liverpool Special’ post-box, only 8 cast
1863 – No. 12 Hanover St – warehouse/office block – still present
1863 – Frank Hornby was born in Liverpool in 1863
1863 – Conversion programme from ‘pail closets’ to ‘water closets’ starts (mostly complete by 1890’s)
1863 – Alfred and Charles Booth established the partnership of Alfred Booth & Co. with the main purpose of importing English light leather to the U.S.A
1863 – Four hangings at Kirkdale Gaol
1863 – Margaret Street Baths – Everton
1863 – Fabius Baptist Church Everton Road
1863 – First Jewish Mayor – Charles Mozley. An anti-sematic sermon by St George’s church leads to Corporation to abandoning them and its subsequent decline
1864 – Oriel Chambers – is the world’s first metal framed glass curtain walled building – Peter Ellis
1864 – Building of ‘court’ housing is banned (at this time 3,073 comprising 17,835 houses and estimated 110,000 people)
1864 – Brunswick Station – 1st June. Closed to passengers 2nd March 1874 and became Goods Station remaining in use until early 1970’s
1864 – St Michaels Railway Station – (used for International Garden Festival in 1984)
1864 – Aigburth Station Originally Mersey Road & Aigburth, opened as part of the Garston and Liverpool Railway line.
1864 – Cressington Station
1864 – Temple 22-24 Buildings Dale St – for banker Sir William Brown
1864 – TS Indefatigable – John Clint a Liverpool ship owner, founded a charitable institution to train the sons of sailors, destitute and orphaned boys to become merchant seamen
1864 – Liverpool Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest
1864 – Dr. Sebastian Z. De Ferranti born in 130 Bold St
1864 – Liverpool & Wigan Boats Mans Mission founded – had hall on Pall Mall from 1878 (some frontage remains)
1864 – No. 16 Cook St – by Peter Ellis – all steel spiral staircase
1864 – Large explosion on the Lotty Sleigh on the Mersey 15th Jan
1864 – New arm of canal built at Phillips St – with 3 short arms – used for loading ‘night soil’. Manure/night soil removal is a key challenge as population expands – wharfs outside of town used for storage
1864 – Nos. 48-50 Castle St – Mercantile and Exchange Bank – now William Hill Bookies
1864 – Berey’s Building Bixteth St – still there
1864 – Mary Prioleau famously holds a Confederate Bizarre at St Georges Hall
1864 – SS Great Eastern sold 14th January 1864 in the Cotton Room at the Liverpool Exchange. The auctioneer, Joseph Cunard, of Cunard Wilson and Company
1864 – William Brown dies on the 3rd March 1864, he died at his home on Richmond Hill, Anfield
1864 – On 9th July – the 3rd Olympic Festival organised by the Liverpool Athletic Club held at Zoological Gardens
1864 – Humyak House warehouse in Duke St – still there
1864 – The foundation stone of the new Liverpool Gymnasium in Myrtle Street opposite the Philharmonic was laid on 19th July
1864/69 – Walton Workhouse – became Walton Hospital, closed 1990’s
1865 – On 28th May – 153 Welsh leave Liverpool for Patagonia – on The Mimosa
1865 – Milepost on corner of Tetlow St, Walton Lane
1865 – The New Liverpool Gymnasium, Myrtle Street, 6th Nov by Lord Stanley
1865 – Liverpool River Police (til 1920)
1865 – Jones Quiggin & Co. launch 5 blockade-runners: Widgeon, Snipe, Curlew, Plover, Noor-el-Huda
c1865 – All Souls Church – Collingwood St off Scotland Rd – because people had no were to take the dead. Demolished 1968
1865 – Playhouse built – rebuilt 1895, (1968 extended as now) – oldest repertory theatre in UK
1865 – Dr John Bligh moves to 109 Mount Pleasant from Ireland
1865 – Compton House rebuilt after fire (Europe’s first purpose built dept. store JR Jeffrey) – then Compton Hotel, M&S (1928)
1865 – Agnes Jones takes over as Nursing Superintendent at Brownlow Hill Workhouse Hospital. Liverpool pioneered the use of trained nurses in workhouses through an experiment in 1865 funded by local philanthropist William Rathbone
1865 – Liverpool Construction Act was passed on 26 May – inc St Anne St extended into Cazenau St – St Anne’s rebuilt (1871) corner of Great Richmond St
1865 – Liverpool Improvement Act 1865 – led to parks development
1865 – Great Drought – adverse effects on trade and health
1865 – Liverpool Tramways Company lays trial track in Castle St – horse drawn trams – not successful?
1865 – George and Phillip Holt register Ocean Steamship Company
1865 – The so-called ‘New’ ferry service was introduced between Liverpool Pier Head, Toxteth and Birkenhead
1865 – On 6th November – the final act of the American Civil War is the surrender of Confederate ship Shenandoah to the Mayor of Liverpool
1861/65 – Chatham Building built – Chatham St C.M. Chapel – now part of university
1862/68 – Municipal Buildings Dale St
c1865 – Victoria St cut out – many court slums demolished
1865 – Fowlers Building – Victoria St built by Sir James Picton, for Fowler Brothers, international dealers in foodstuffs. Earliest grand building in the new Victoria St
c1865 – Smaller houses start to be built in Breckfield area – Thirlmere Rd and side streets (all named after Lake District lakes)
1865 – Costain Group founded by Richard Costain
1866 – Sefton Park Mews – livery stable – Lodge Lane
1866 – Incline to Horsfall St from Sefton St – included urinals and horse trough – still there
1866 – Toxteth Town Hall – High Park St
1866 – The North End Homeopathic Dispensary opened in Wilbraham Street, moving to 10 Roscommon Street in 1872
1866 – Chisenhale St Bridge built across canal
c1866 – Wesleyan Chapel 81 – 95 Shaw St – became Shaw St Synagogue c1908 – destroyed in Blitz
1866 – Monarch of the Seas leaves for New York but is lost and never found
1866 – No. 96 Bold St – former Dreaper’s Pianoforte Warehouse, now occupied by News From Nowhere
1866 – George and Phillip Holt invest in 3 new steamships – Agamemomn – Ajax – Achilles. The Agamemnon leaves Liverpool for China on 19th April
1866 – Prince Albert equestrian statue St Georges Plateau
1866 – On 14th Feb – first voyage of the Booth Steamship Company left Liverpool for Pará Brazil
1866 – Empire Theatre, Lime St (initially Prince of Wales Theatre) rebuilt 1925. On 29th July 1867 its name changed to the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Opera House to honour the Princess of Wales
1866 – Herculaneum Docks open (filled and closed after 1972)
1866/68 – Waterloo Grain warehouse built x 3 , one survives as Waterloo Apartments
1866/68 – County Palantine Buildings – School Lane
1866 – North Hay Market – Gt Homer/Cazneau St
1867 – Josephine Butler House built, Myrtle St – demolished in 2009
1867 – Central Fire Station – Hatton Garden (top end of Tithebarn St – Dale St)) – backs onto Main Bridewell
1867 – Linacre Gas Works – off Marsh Lane by the canal
1867 – Sefton Park laid out
1867 – Stanley Hospital – Kirkdale first opened for women and children
1867 – No. 83 Church St built (by date on building)
1867 – London Carriage Works – Hope St (now a hotel)
1867 – Vandyke & Brown photographers – 34 Castle St/42 Virgil St – later Bold St and South Hunter St
1867 – ‘The Octagon’ Grove St – built as house by J.W.Hayward
1867 – Liverpool Corporation purchase Britains first steamroller
1867 – On-going disputes with Birkenhead ref amount of relative investment compared to Liverpool docks
1867 – Liverpool Velocipedes is the country’s first cycling club
1868 – First borough to secure and Act of Parliament to establish a tram system. Liverpool Tramway Co starts construction of the Inner Circle and the lines to Walton and Dingle.
1868 – Newsham Park opened
1868 – Bootle-cum-Linacre, Fairfield and part of Wavertree were added to the parliamentary borough, which then received a third seat
1868 – Owen Owen founded – London Rd, then Clayton Sq. (1925) , then as TJ Hughes in London Rd
1868 – Runcorn Railway Bridge
1868 – Burials exhumed from St Peters for widening of Church St
1868 – nos. 60/62 Castle Street – built for Alliance Bank (then North and South Wales Bank)
c1868 – Princes Dock modernised
c1868 – Aigburth Hall built for Charles Chaloner – demolished for housing 1935
1868 – Adelphi re-built
1868 – Ayrton Saunders Co Ltd (chemist) Hanover St – now Gostins Building
1868 – Liverpool is the first borough to gain an Act of Parliament to establish a tram network
1868 – Welsh Presbyterian Church – Toxteth/Welsh Cathedral – Princes Rd
1868 – St Timothy’s – Rokeby St, Everton – closed 1957, hall remained til 1970’s
c1868 – Batavia Buildings – Hackins Hey on site of old Quaker House
1868 – Masons Building – Exchange St East – had Crooked Billet Restaurant in basement (named after the old pub)
1868 – Oakfield Road, Anfield laid out and built up
1868/70 – St Johns Church – Tuebrook
1869 – Our Lady of Reconciliation de la Salette – Eldon Place, Vauxhall
1869 – Tramways start with 16 horse-drawn carraiges – 1st Nov
1869 – Welsh Baptist Chapel – Village St Everton
1869 – St Nathaniel’s Church – Upper Parliament St
1869 – St Margaret of Antioc – Princes Rd
1869 – Knotty Ash Brewery, Prescot Rd Knotty Ash
1869 – Joseph Robinson founded his stove enamelling company in Grafton Street – eventually becomes part of Robinson Willey
1869 – The Oceanic Navigation Company Founded by T. H. Ismay
1869 – Thingwall House Knotty Ash
1869 – Charles Dickens pays his final visits to Liverpool inc dinner at St Georges Hall on 10th April
1869 – Home for Incurables – 96 Upper Parliament St. Founded by Josephine Butler, a ‘House of Rest’ for women suffering from incurable chronic diseases; from 1975 began to admit male chronic cases
1869 – Notre Dame Collegiate College – Everton Valley
1869 – St. Martin’s Cottages, Silvester St, Vauxhall were Europe’s first municipal housing
1868/71 – Lime St Station Hotel (North Western Hotel) (now LJMU halls)
1870 – By now Toxteth is built up to to Wellington Rd
1870 – Workshops for the Outdoor Blind – Cornwallis St – still there
c1870 – Liverpool Union Bank Head Office – Brunswick St/Fenwick St
1870 – Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas – Berkley St/Princes Rd
1870 – Compton House – School Lane – warehouse
1870 – John Houlding opens brewery in Tynemouth St Everton. The company, along with 21 licensed houses, was taken over by Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1939 and ceased to brew
1870 – Breck Road Station – closed to passengers 1948 – closed completely 1969
1870 – On 24th Jan – 15 people crushed to death at St Joseph’s, Grosvenor St after shout of ‘fire’
1870 – Liverpool Institute of Chartered Accountants – North John St
c1870s – ‘Little Italy’ – Gerard St, Circus St area based in St Josephs and Holy Cross Parishes
1870 – Ramsbottom’s Chimney – Smithdown rd/Crown St – to extract steam from Lime St Tunnel
1870 – Byrom St widened and St Stephens rebuilt located
1870 – Statues by Benjamin Edward Spence, presented by the sculptor’s widow – Picton Reading Rooms – Jeanie Deans, The Lady of the Lake, Highland Mary
1870 – Liverpool ‘Evening Express’ first published – runs until 1958
1870 – Stanley Station opened, Anfield & Walton Station opened. Both closed by 1948
1870 – Stanley Park opened – 14th May – 25,000+ in attendance
1870 – WE Gladstone PM for first time, again in 1880, 1886, 1892
1870 – Gladstone Conservatory erected in Stanley park
1870 – Grand Fancy Fair , Flower Show and Bazaar Stanley Park – in aid of new Stanley Hospital
1870/72 – Bootle Borough Hospital – Derby Rd/Nelson St Bootle – closed 1976 – buildings still there as Mast House
1870 – St Brigid’s – Bevington Hill – demolished 1967
c1870s – Mason St/Highgate St – Edge Hill – many HQ/Drill Halls etc for Lancashire Voluntary Corps
1870/73 – Robson St laid out/widened
1871 – Georges Dock Basin closed
1871 – Queen Victoria equestrian statue St Georges Plateau
1871 – St Ambrose Church – Prince Edwin St
1871 – St Domingo Chapel – Breckfield Road North – Everton FC formed here in 1870
1871 – Park Police become Special Constables
1871 – Maiden voyage of RMS Oceanic for White Star – 2nd March
1871 – Streatlam Tower, Princes Ave. By W&G Audsley for James L Bowes wool merchant – housed his Japanese art collection (museum 1890). In 1888 Bowes was appointed the Honorary Japanese Consul at Liverpool, the first such appointment in the UK
1871 – Sefton Barracks Windsor St – 8th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers
1871 – Toxteth Tabernacle – Prk Rd
1871/72 – Mayor – John Pearson
1871 – Nos. 59-61 Tithebarn – former printing and bookbinding factory – Union Paper & Printing Co.
1872 – Blackstock St School – may be Bevington Bush School as 1848 map – walls still there
1872 – Imperial Chambers – Dale St (offices look onto central space)
1872 – Royal Southern Hospital – Caryl St (replaces Southern and Toxteth)
1872 – Liverpool United Gas Company showroom, opened at Duke Street
1872 – Tates Sugar Refinery – Love Lane – amalgamates with Lyle 1921. Takes over Fairre & Co in 1929, and Macfie & Co in 1938
1872 – St Paul’s Eye Hospital – St Pauls Sq – moves to Old Hall St 1912
1872 – Sefton Park opened 20th May – 266 acres – home to Mersey Bowmen Tennis Club 1887 – Sefton Cricket Club 1876 – Sefton Park Bowling Club 1884
1872 – Masonic Hall – Hope St – on site of original building. The Property was purchased on the 27th April 1857. Opened 8th Oct 1858. Extended 1932 – grand entrance demolished.
1872 – The Liver Sketching Club formed
1872 – Steam locomotives come into use on the docks
1872 – Salisbury St RC School – rebuilt 1920 – closed 1980, became furniture warehouse now demolished
1872 – Sir Charles Sydney Jones born 7th Feb
1872 – St Bridget’s Church – Lawrence Rd/Bagot St – still there
1872 – Seels Building – corner of Church St/Paradise St – still there
1872 – Wavertree Town Hall – still there
1873 – Liverpool Council of Education founded
1873 – Georges Dock filled in and Water St and Brunswick St extended)
1873 – First Sheltering Home for Children opened on Byrom St (later Myrtle St – see 1888)
1873 – Andrew Barclay Walker – Mayor
1873 – St Lawrence CE School – Croylands St off Barlow Lane
1873 – St Lawrence CE Church Barlow Lane
1873 – Sandon & Canada Goods Station – 2nd June
1873 – Major plans drawn up to extend docks north, south, and east. Powers obtained to borrow £4,100,000
1873 – New offices and warehousing built at Old Hall St canal basin
1873 – On 24th Dec – Brazilian Vice-Consul Joas Baptiste Cafferena killed crossing line at Broad Green Station
1873/74 – The Vandyke & Brown printing works and equestrian studio moved to 19a Hardman Street and remained there until at least 1875 when the partnership was dissolved. Richard Brown immediately created the new firm of Brown, Barnes & Bell
1874 – Roscommon St School – 1936 Senior School (closed 1973) –
c1874 – Newsham Park Windmill built to pump water between the two lakes – worked til 1920’s demolished 1954
1874 – Steble St Baths and Wash-house
1874 – St Silvester’s School – Silvester St
1874 – Liverpool Royal Infirmary School of Medicine Debating Society founded – became Medical Students Society (M.S.S.) in 1943
1874 – ‘Tithebarn St Outrage’ – murder of Richard Morgan by High Rip gang. McCrave and Mullen were hanged at Kirkdale on 3rd January 1875
1874 – Bankhall St Canal Warehouse – still there
1874 – Landing Stage fire 28th July
1874 – Triennial Music Festival revived after 40 years – held at Philarmonic Hall – 29th/30th Sept, 1st Oct
1874 – Central Station opened (high level station demolished 1973)
1874 – Princes Road Synagogue – built to replace the older one in Seel Street. Consecrated 3rd Sept at a ceremony led by Chief Rabbi Dr Nathan M Adler.
1874 – St Philemon’s Church – Windsor St
1874 – Liverpool St James Station opens – closed 1917
1874 – Liverpool Seaman’s Orphan Institution founded – temporary building rented at 128 Duke St – moves to Newsham Park in 1874 and on 30th Sept stages a Royal opening by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. In 1879 opening of a sanatorium. In 1900 Swimming Pool opens. In 1937 – School Block opens. Closed 1948, opened as Park Hospital 1954
1875 – By end of year 60.75miles of tram lines in Liverpool
1875 – Baptist Chapel, Walton lane
c1875 – Rapid expansion of housing off Edge Lane
1875 – Fanny Louisa Calder began teaching cookery classes for adults at St George’s Hall. It develops into school at corner of Seel/Colquitt St – now Elysian Fields. Calder set up the Northern Union of
Training Schools of Cookery in 1876, and the national Association of Teachers of Domestic Science in 1897.
1875 – Liverpool British Workman Public House Company formed – temperance – became Liverpool Cocoa Rooms
1875 – Zultan of Zanibar visits Seamans Orphange Newsham Park, 8th July
1875 – Victoria Hall, Victoria St – Christian Business men erect wooden hall, Feb/March to discourage drinking
c1875 – Large block on corner of Richmond St/Whitechapel – by H H Vale
1875 – Calderstones estate bought by shipping magnate Charles MacIver
1875 – Pupil Teachers’ College was established in two houses in Shaw Street, (later in Clarence St)
1875 – YMCA Mount Pleasant (now Hatters) – first purpose built YMCA in the world!
1875 – Stanley Park Baptist Church – Walton lane
1874/75 – The Beaufort Street School
1875 – Mossley Hill Church
1876 – Pier Head and Prince’s Landing Stage joined together- larger vessels – longest in world at the time
1876 – Liverpool Rubber Co invents/names ‘plimsolls’
1876 – Presbyterian Church of England, formed by merger of the United Presbyterian Church and various English and Scottish Presbyterian congregations – Philharmonic Hall 13th June
1876 – Hengler’s Grand Cirque, West Derby Road opens on 13^th Nov. Became site of Hippodrome in 1902.
1876 – Jim Larkin born Combermere St
1876 – No. 73 Anfield Rd built – John Houlding’s house – still there
1876 – The Liverpool Road and Railway Omnibus Company, and the Liverpool Tramway Company merged as the Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company
1876 – Aigburth Cocoa Rooms – Aigburth Vale – still there (Peoples Hall)
1876 – Messrs Busby Funeral Carriage and Coaching Ltd- St Anne St – still there
1877 – William Theodore Bent has a brewery at 30/32 Johnson Street, after which it traded as Rowland Bent & Co
1877 – Westminster Rd Baths opened
1877 – The North Wall Lighthouse – ‘The Bootle Bull’ – Gladstone Dock – demolished when dock built
1877 – Walker Art Gallery opened – named after Andrew Barclay Walker, Mayor, of brewery fame
1877 – St Peter’s Church, built in 1877 by J. Warrington
1877 – Liverpool Racquet Club – Upper Parliament St – destroyed in Toxteth Riots 1981 – now in Chapel St
1877 – Photographer, Aaron Vandyke also advertised from 64a Bold Street and in 1881 from 39 Bold Street as well
1877 – St Cuthbert’s – Robson St Anfield – demolished 1970
c1877 – Gladstone Buildings – Union Court off Cook St
1877 – No. 1 Castle St – Agnews Exchange Art Gallery – still there
1877 – Peter Kavanaghs Pub – Egerton St
1877 – Mersey Chambers – Old Church Yard – still there
1877/78 – Hanover St/Paradise St junction realigned – north side of Hanover St to current line, Paradise St extended to Park Lane
1878 – St Domingo’s football Club formed – became Everton in 1879
1878 – St Bridgit’s School Limekiln Lane – Father O’Donovan
1878 – Second sailors Home opened – ‘North End Home’ only operated until 1906
1878 – Branch Dock and 61 Casemates dug out at Herculaneum Docks
1878 – Three Legs of Man Pub – next to Empire on corner – demolished 1999 for theatre expansion
1878 – Albert Dock Pump House (now Pumphouse Inn 1986)
1878 – North & South Wales Bank – St James St/Great George St – still there
1878 – St Gabriel CofE Church – Yates St Toxteth
1878 – Mount Carmel Church – High Park St Toxteth
1878 – Former Victoria Chapel – Crosshall St – still there
1878 – Bon Marche Dept Store founded (David Lewis) – Basnett St
1878 – Forty people killed following false call of ‘fire’ at Royal Colosseum Theatre, Paradise St
1878 – The Liverpool Cotton Bank is established – 14th April
1878 – Petony’s Building – St James Place
c1878 – Crosshall Building – Crosshall St
c1878 – Percy Buildings – Erberle St
c1878 – Cross’s Menagarie – Old Hall, then Earle St
1878 – On 1st June – North of England Monster Meet of Bicyclists at Sefton Park
1878 – The Lodge Lane baths and wash house was built on the corner of Lodge Lane and Grierson Street, next door to the water pumping station
1879 – Seaforth Battery completed
1879 – Everton FC play their first game – at Stanley Park v St Peters Church on 20th Dec
1879 – Monday May 5th Opening of a sanatorium at the Seamen’s Orphanage.
1879 – Liverpool Echo first published
1879 – Picton Reading Rooms (extension to William Browns library of 1860). Picton Hall below.
1879 – Liverpool Corporation Electric Lighting Act
1879 – Steble Fountain – named after Colonel Steble who was Mayor in 1874
1879 – Imperial Buildings – apex of Victoria St/Whitechapel
1879 – Anfield Cycling Club formed
1879 – No. 100 Bold St – presently occupied by Petticoat Lane and a newsagent –
1879 – Knotty Ash and Stanley Railway Station – closed to passengers 1960, closed completely 1972
1879 – Death of Hugh Shimmin founder of the satirical newspaper The Porcupine
1879 – Huskisson Goods Station – between Sandhills/Boundary St
1879 – Peter Walker Snr dies (brewer) – Andrew Barclay Walker takes control of company
1879 – A screw-driven ferry was introduced on the Liverpool to Woodside route. This was the Oxton, which was the first so-called ‘luggage-boat’ which could carry vehicles
1879 – Commercial Saleroom Building – Victoria St/Temple Court – James F Doyle – apple trading exchange
c1879 – No.92 Bold St
1879 – ‘Reform Club’ Building 31 Dale St – now Trident House
1879/81 – St Cyprians Church – Edge Lane/Durning Rd
1880 – Liverpool becomes a city – Queen Victoria
1880 – Liverpool Eye and Ear Hospital – Myrtle St – still there
1880 – Simpson & Roberts founded – now Princes Foods –
1880/01 – MDHB reduce rates and dues at the port, again in 1884
1880 – Everton Cemetery – Long Lane Fazakerley
1880 – St Luke’s Art Workshop – Myrtle St
1880/83 – Westminster Chambers – Dale St/Crosshall/Preston St
1880 – First Bishop of Liverpool at St Peter’s – John Charles Ryle
c1880 – Former Bradford Hotel – corner of Pall Mall/Tithebarn – still there
c1880 – The Arkles Pub
c1880 – Welsh Streets built in Toxteth by and for Welsh workers
1880s – Mildmay House – Blachburne Place
c1880 – Effingham St Warehouses – still there – scene of fire 1892
1880/87 – High Rip Gang notorius
1880/87 – Edge Lane, Durning Road, and Wavertree Road were planned out
c1880 – Two steam hopper barges purchased, Alpha and Beta, to dump refuse beyond The Bar
1881 – Langton Dock opens – part used since 1879 (water admitted 3rd March 79)
1881 – Langton Castle pub – Regent Rd/Nelson St
1881 – Kirkdale Cemetery – Longmoor Lane Fazakerley
1881 – Alexandra Docks and station opens. Station closed 1967
1881 – No.1 Victoria St – offices above restaurant for brewer Andrew Barclay Walker
1881 – First police horse-drawn patrol vehicles introduced
1881 – King’s Regiment Liverpool – becomes city’s regiment – formed 1685 as Princess Anne of Denmark Reg.
1881 – The 2nd Lancashire Artillery Volunteers are listed at Windsor Barracks Spekeland Street, between Overbury Street and Chatsworth Street
1881 – Pumping Station, Mann Island. The Pumping Station was built to service the railway tunnel underneath the Mersey.
1881 – Fenian Plot to blow up Town Hall
1881 – Granby St Board School. Closed 1999
1881 – W.H.Fleming founds Flemings Jeans
1881 – Work starts on Lake Vyrnwy Dam and reservoir
c1881 – Granton Road School built
1881 – The Mere Pub
1881 – Throstles Nest Pub
1881/82 – Bank of Liverpool – Victoria St. Still there as Sir Thomas Hotel
1881/82 – Muskers Building – Dale/Stanley St
c1882 – Granite Buildings – Stanley St – offices with produce warehouses to Progress Lane behind
1882 – Liverpool Art School – Hope St/Mount St
1882 – Liverpool and Distict Football Association formed – 12 member clubs
1882 – Liverpool Ramblers AFC (now at Moor Lane, Crosby)
1882 – Liverpool Harriers (athletics) formed (now Liverpool Harriers & Athletic Club)
1882 – Waterloo Rugby Club – Blundellsands
1882 – Liverpool Radium Institute opens in Jospehine Butler House, Myrtle St
1882 – Henry Royce moved to Liverpool continuing to work for the Electric Light and Power Company.
1882 – Edge Hill Gridiron railway sidings system in place
1882 – Liverpool University College – Liverpool Uni since 1903
1882 – No. 2 Castle St – Robert Jones Goldsmiths
1882 – Bootle Town Hall opensI
1882 – Venice Chambers – Lord St/Dorans Lane – still there
1882 – Princes Building – Dale St – shops, offices, leather works – still there
1882 – Lisbon Building – Victoria St (Lisbon pub now downstairs)
1882 – Spellow Train Station. Closed 1948
1882 – Union House, 21 Victoria St (formerly Palace Chambers)
1882/84 – Swedish Seamans Church Park Lane – still there
1882 – Electric lights trialled at St John’s Market
1882/83 – Municipal Buildings Annexe – Dale St
1882/88 – Harrington Docks open. (filled in 1986-94)
1883 – Northern Hospital introduces Europe’s first horse-drawn ambulance service a regular, hospital-based, horse-drawn service equipped for first-aid and ready for immediate use.
1883 – Ashcroft Building – Victoria St – housed billiard table factory (showroom there til 1987)
1883 – St Marys RC Church Edmund St taken down brick by brick and moved to Highfield St – destroyed in The Blitz
1883 – Liverpool Press Club formed
1883 – Bramley-Moore Dock Hydraulic Engine House
1883 – Sinking of pilot boat ‘The Good Intent’ off Formby Point
1883 – Old Cambridge Hall, Warwick St taken by Methodists and known as Templar Hall, closed 1931
1883 – On 12th August – at St Joseph’s Grosvenor Street, Bishop O’Reilly ordained 13 new priests for the diocese
1883 – Sir Arthur Forwood’s Insanitary Property Committee, established
1883 – Statue of Benjamin Disraeli – Earl of Beaconsfield – outside St Georges Hall
1883 – Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children formed. Initially 6 Nile St, then 3 Islington Square
1883 – Special Hospital for Women – 107-109 Shaw St
1883 – Pilotage Building – Canning Graving Docks – still there
1883/85 – Crown, Jerome and Carlisle, Abbey Buildings – Victoria St
1883/89 – East Toxteth Sheds with clock tower – now Century Buildings
1884 – First game at Anfield – Everton v Earlestown – 1886 Kemlyn Rd stand, 1890 stands behind each goal
1884 – Central Buildings – North St John St – now Hard Days Night Hotel (2004)
1884 – The Picton Clock Tower was presented to the people of Wavertree by architect Sir James Picton in 1884, having been designed by him as a memorial to his wife Sarah
1884 – Small electricity generating station in Rose St – also Harrington St 1888 – The Electric Light Company
1884 – County Sessions House, Shaws Brow
1884 – Rear extension to Walker Art Gallery
1884 – Lucy Craddock is the first woman doctor to practise in Liverpool, established and ran a surgery at 52 Huskisson Street
1884 – Turner Home – by Anne Turner wife of Charles Turner MP
1884 – ‘Blackstone St Murder’ – Spanish sailor knifed to death
1884 – Sisters Margaret Higgins and Catherine Flanagan hanged for murder of Margarets husband Thomas at Kirkdale Gaol – ‘The Black Widows of Liverpool’
1884 – Hornby Dock – for timber trade, now part of Gladstone coal terminal
1884 – Christ Church Schools – Lark Lane
1884 – Police and Fire Station – Durning Rd Edge Hill
1884 – West Derby Cemetery Consecrated 28th June
1884 – Liverpool Inner City Zoological Park & Gardens – Walton
c1884 – MDHB purchase Park Hill estate – site of future Dingle Oil Jetty etc
1884 – Park Hill Hospital/Infectious Diseases Hospital – South Hill Rd
1884 – Bank of Liverpool 84 Church St – later Martins, then Barclays, now Santander
1884 – John Masons Removals founded – still going as John Mason International
1884 – Former Margaret Beavan School built as Eddisbury House
1884 – Welsh Eisteddfod held in Liverpool (also 1840, 1900, 1929)
1884/88 – West Harrington Sheds – standing as Glacier Buildings
1885 – T.P. O’Connor elected for Scotland Division – only Irish Nationalist Party MP on mainland – holds til 1929
1885 – Anfield Chapel, Oakfield Road, – site of the garage by Anfield as is
1885 – Westminster Rd Police and Fire Stations – still there now listed
1885 – Victoria Square Dwellings (Juvenal St/Lawrence St) – demolished 1966 – entrance to Kingsway Tunnel. Opened by Sir Richard Cross, then Conservative Home Secretary
1885 – St Agnes Church – Ullet Rd/Buckingham Ave
1885 – Arnot St school built by Edmund Kirby
1885 – David Lewis dies 4^th Dec.
1885 – Paradise St extended – approx.. 222 graves moved from St Thomas’s
1885 – Simpson Drinking Fountain – wall of St Nick’s
1885 – On 6th Aug – Royal Assent approved for Manchester Ship Canal Bill – had caused much animosity between Port of Liverpool and its promoters esp Manchester.
c1885 – No.14 Castle St for Edinburg Life assurance
1885 – Church House – corner of Paradise/Hanover St – Mersey Mission to Seaman and a temperance pub
1885 – Developments at end of Paradise St – St Thomas’ church yard south-eastern half given over to extension of Paradise St
1885 – Bodies removed from St Nicks to Everton Cemetry as St Georges Dock Rd widened
1885 – Marker stone on site of the Southern Basin of Harrington Dock to mark the Eastern terminal point of the imaginary line referred to in Section 103 of the Mersey Dock Acts Consolidation Act 1858
1885 – Liverpool Union Bank 43 -47 Bold St
1885 – St Johns The Evangelist Church rebuilt – Fountains Rd
1885 – Turkish Baths in Eberle St
1885 – SS Great Eastern used by Lewis’s to advertise on the Mersey
1885 – New canal warehousing off Carolina St Bootle- became centre of a small canal community
1885 – Lark Lane Police Station – still there
1885 – Edge Hill University opened with 45 students
1886 – Part of Leeds-Liverpool canal filled in – new basin south of Chisendale St. Section between Chisenhale and Phillips St moved 50 metres east and straightened. Pall Mall extended taking in Ray St. New canal offices built on Pall Mall. Part of agreement for new Exchange Station by Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
1886 – Mersey Tunnel Railway opened – James Street station in Liverpool and Hamilton Sq in Birkenhead, with stations in between at Hamilton Square and Birkenhead Central – 3 tunnels, 2 tracks, 38 million bricks, two headings met 1884, Dec 1885 people allowed to walk through, 36,000 people use it first day.
1886 – James St station – worlds first underground cut into rock
1886 – Liverpool City Police – Mounted Department – Hatton Garden
1886 – Prudential Assurance Building – Dale St – Alfred Waterhouse, on site of Colonial Buildings which included a Yates pub in 1880’s
1886 – Gordon’s Boys Institute – Stanley Rd, Kirkdale – still there
1886 – St Polycarp’s Church – North Netherfield Rd
1886 – Sacred Heart RC Church – Prescot St/Low Hill
1886 – Crown Buildings – Preston St – former Magistrates Court traffic offences
1886 – Venice St Board Schools – Breckfield – demolished 2011
1886 – International Shipperies Exhibition in May, held in Wavertree Park ( Botanic Park). Opened by Queen Victoria – see frieze on Walker Art Gallery.
1886 – Shipperies Pub built ref above
1886/87 – The Adult Deaf and Dumb Institute – Princes Rd
1884/86 – Hartleys Jam factory and Village, Fazakerley
1887 – Cains Brewery Stanhope St rebuilt as is – taken over by Higsons Brewery in 1923, now Dusanj brothers
1887 – Central Commercial Hotel – Cains, Ranlagh St
1887 – Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital – 42 Hope St
1887 – Walker Engineering Building, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill
1887 – Manx Line – Liverpool & Manchester Co founded – Isle of Man route
1887 – Statue of Major-General William Earle, native of Liverpool and leader of British Imperial campaigns in India and Africa was erected on St Georges Plateau
1887 – Elizabeth Berry hanged at Walton (ironically by hangman named James Berry)
1887 – Westminster Music Hall – 85/87 Smith St Kirkdale- opened byThomas Montgomery &James Kiernan
1887 – Sicilian marble statue of William Rathbone by John Henry Foley and Thomas Brock was unveiled in Sefton Park
1887 – The Kardomah brand of tea was first served at the Liverpool colonial exhibition of 1887,and the brand was later applied to a range of teas, coffees and coffee houses
1887 – Queen of Hawaii and her daughter Princess Liliuokalani arrive in Liverpool on 2^nd June and are entertained by Mayor James Pool
1887 – St Benedict’s, Kepler St/Heyworth St, Everton – demolished 1976
1888 – Shakespeare Theatre – Fraser St off London Rd – 27th Aug
1888/90 – St Clare’s R.C. Church – Arundel Avenue – Smithdown
1888 – The Globe Pub – Cases St
1888 – John Bagots Hospital, Netherfield Rd North – was James Ackers villa
1888 – City Hospital (South) Northumberland/Grafton St opened
1888 – Bootle becomes borough
c1888 – St Margaret of Antioch Primary School – Upper Hampton St
1888 – Lewis’s gutted by fire
1888 – James Lord Bowes was appointed the Honorary Japanese Consul at Liverpool, the first such appointment in the UK
1888 – Kirklands Bakery – Hardman St – now Fly in the Loaf pub
1888 – Brae St Board Schools Edge Hill – Kensington Primary and Juniors
1888 – Another drought affects Liverpool
c1886/88 – Rebuilt Exchange Station and Hotel opens (canal basin in Old Hall St closed 1886). Now at street level as viaduct over canal no longer needed.
1888/89 – Fazakerley Cottage Homes built by West Derby Union for pauper children
1888 – Liverpool Hydraulic Power Company introduce a system of high pressure water mains – works were in Athol St
1888 – Sheltering Home for Destitute Children – Myrtle St
1888 – Daniel Higson Ltd formed – had been run by Higson since 1865 – originally formed 1780
1888 – Port Sunlight, created by William Hesketh Lever for his factory workers in 1888
1888 – Finally, in 1888, a prominent group of businessmen formed the Liverpool Overhead Railway Company and obtained the Dock Board’s powers by an Act of Transfer
1888 – ‘Fruit Exchange Buildings’ – 10/18 Victoria St – built as railway goods station – converted 1923
1889 – Toxteth Dock Hydraulic Station and Customs House – still there Red Cross
1887/89 – Liverpool Royal Infirmary – Pembroke Place – still there – Alfred Waterhouse, Florence Nightingale consulted
1889 – William Henry Quilliam a.k.a Abdullah Quilliam opens Britains first mosque at No.8 Brougham Terrace
1889 – Liverpool becomes a County Borough
1889 – St. Silvesters Church – Silvester St
1889 – Belmont Road (Grove) Workhouse – became Newsham General Hosp 1917. Lizzie Christian sold flowers outside on a Sunday
1889 – The Florrie’ – The Florence Institute – Mill St, Dingle – boys club by Sir Bernard Hall
1889 – Bankhall Girls Institute – Stanley Rd
1889 – 13th July – Shah of Persia stays at Newsham House
1889 – Murder of James Maybrick by his wife Florence. Buried 16th May but his body was exhumed on May 30th
1889 – Bent’s Brewery acquired Thomas Montgomery’s Stone Brewery
1889 – First use of slot gas meters – Cazenau St dwellings
1889 – New Gt Charlotte St Fish market
1889 – Kensington Library
1889 – William Henry Taverner has sweet shop on Scotland Rd – factory in Vauxhall then Beech St Edge Lane – invents chocolate eclairs in 1930 – still there as Tangerine Ltd
1889 – National Union of Dock Labour founded in Liverpool – NUDL
1889 – British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company Building, 5 Castle Street
1889/94 – Wesleyan Mission Boys Home – 101-03 Shaw St
1889/90 – The SS Great Eastern broken up at Rock Ferry by Henry Bath & Son Ltd
1890 – Andrew William Barclay incorporates Peter Walker & Son (Warrington & Burton) – private company
1890 – The Paddington Palace, Edge Hill, Liverpool opened.
1890 – Juvenal Dwellings – close to Kingsway entrance as is
1890 – Great fire Liverpool docks
1890 – John Alexandra Brodie invents football nets
1890 – Hill O’Zion Church, Cochrane St, Everton – still there
1890 – MDHB start dredging river entrance in ernest reducing ‘The Bar’
1890 – British Insulated Cables – Prescot – becomes BICC
1890 – Museums Association formed – Rev. Henry Hugh Higgins became the first president
1890 – Nos. 10 -14 – 18 Castle St – built as offices
1890 – 36 Castle St built as bank
1890 – 44 Castle St – now Boots – purple front
1890 -Dock Labourers Strike – 5th – 31st March – 20,000 dockers – Military called out
1890 – Walton Breck Road straightened
c1890 – Palantine Chambers – corner of Hackins Hey/Dale St – ground floor is now Saddle Inn (was the Palentine)
1890 – 28th Nov – all sheds at Herculaneum Docks destroyed by fire
1890 – 26th Oct – Henry Morton Stanley – famous Africa explorer delivers lecture at St Georges Hall
1890 – The first person to die on the new style “step free” gallows was Matthew William Chadwick on the 15th of April 1890 at Kirkdale.
c1890 – Kansas Building – Stanley/Mathew St – was Wade Smith
c1890 – Vestey Brothers (William/Edmund) set up Union Cold Storage
c1890 – Gregsons Well Pub – Brunswick Rd
1890 – County Rd Methodist Church
1891 – Population 813,000
1891 – John Conway hanged at Walton
1891 – Bootle Technical College founded – becomes Hugh Baird College in 1974, Balliol Rd
1891 – Gardens at Our Lady & St Nicholas laid out – in memory of James Harrison (Mersey Chambers)
1891 – State Fire Insurance Company – became State Assurance Co. Ltd – founded
c1891 – Four major pubs owners in Liverpool were – Peter Walkers & Sons, Robert Cain, Rowland Bent, Threfalls
1891 – Toxteth Cooperative Provident Society – formed May 1891
1891 – Refuse destructor built at canal wharf Charters St
1891 – The Theatre Royal Palace of Varieties Breck Rd Anfield – converted to cinema (Super Royal) in 1920
1891 – Addison St Day Industrial School
1891 – Buffalo Bill (Colonel W F Cody) visits Liverpool – Newsham Park
1891 – Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company
1891/92 – Water supply starts from Lake Vrynwy
1891/93 – Mill Road Infirmary – later becomes Mill Rd Maternity Hospital – bombed in Blitz
1891/92 – Adelphi Bank – corner of Brunswick/Castle St
1892 – Liverpool FC formed as Everton move to Goodison. Liverpool’s first game v Higher Walton on 23rd September
1892 – Mersey Railway tunnel extended from James St to Central low level station
1892 – ‘English Baseball League’ founded at Oddfellows Hall, St Anne St
1892 – First ‘John West’ canned foods imported by Pelling, Stanley & Co – become John West Foods
1892 – Lake Vrynwy comes on line, via ‘Mersey Tunnels’ under Man Ship Canal at Runcorn
c1892 – Frank Sugg Ltd – 12 Lord St
1892 – Fire at Aintree Grandstand 29th Sept
1892 – Dandy’ Pat Byrne drinking fountain erected in Scotland Place opposite his ‘Morning Star’ pub –
1892 – Roscommon St Theatre. Converted into a cinema in 1915
1892 – Victoria Building, Brownlow Hill – University College. Mr (later Sir) William Hartley, the jam manufacturer, funded the clock and bells and Mr (later Sir) Henry Tate, the sugar refiner of Liverpool and London offered to fund the entire library block of the building, amounting to £20,000
1893 – First Lord Mayor – Robert Durning Holt
1893 – MDHB purchase Tranmere foreshore – eventually taken by Camell Lairds – from landowner Major Orred
1893 – Walton Town Hall built. Demolished c1968 for Breeze Hill flyover
1893 – Liverpool Overhead Railway opened 4th Feb
c1893 – New Zealand House – Water St
1893 -Food and Betterment Association founded by Lee Jones
1893 – Clarence Station – LOR
1894 – FA Cup Final held at Goodison – Notts County 4 – 1 Bolton Wanderers
1894 – School of Architecture and Applied Art (Art Sheds), Liverpool
1894 – Overhead Railway was extended to Bootle (Seaforth Sands Station) in April 1894
1894 – Manchester Ship Canal completed
1894 – St Pauls Church graveyard closed (12,333 burials) turned into St Pauls Gardens
1894 – British Enka Factory – Aintree – becomes Courtaulds
1894 – The first mill was built on the East Float Birkenhead by Robert Buchanan, soon followed by mills built by W Vernon & Sons (West Float), Paul Brothers (Homepride Mills) and Spillers & Bakers (both East Float). One of the last mills built was Ocean Flour Mills which was built in Birkenhead in 1913 for Joseph Rank Ltd.
1894 – 53 year old Margaret Walber who was hanged by James Billington on the 2nd of April 1894 for the murder of her husband – Walton Prison
1894 – MDHB appoints first full-time paid General manager – Mr Miles Kirk Burton
1894 – The Bank of British West Africa (BBWA) was registered as a limited liability company in March 1894. The Head Office was in Castle Street, Liverpool. Founded by Sir Alfred Jones, a shipping magnate from Liverpool
1894 – St Deiniol’s – Upper Parliament St – still there as furniture warehouse
1894 – Pier Head to London railway link
1894 – Anfield Main Stand built – lasted til 1970
1894/99 – Central Post Office – back of Met Quarter, Victoria St – bottom floors only, blitz damage – designed by Sir Henry Tanner, Chief Architect in the Office of Works.
1895 – Riverside Station – Princes Dock – Bath St, with connections to the mainline. Also strengthening of Princes Stage, and dredging alongside for liners
1895 – Wavertree Playground or ‘The Mystery’ opened – off Smithdown Rd/Grant Ave. Covers 108acres. Venue of the ‘Liverpool Show’ from 1949 to the 90’s
1895 – Samaritan Hospital for Women – Upper Warwick St – moves to 36 Upper Parliament St 1900
1895 – 12th June – visit of The Shahzada, son of the Amir of Afghanistan – stays at Newsham House. He made a gift of £2,500 to Abdullah Quilliam to support the work of the Liverpool Muslim Institute
1895 – Gregson Memorial Institute and Museum- Garmoyle Rd
1895 – Derby Park – Bootle opens
1895 – Boundary extended: Walton, all of West Derby, Wavertree, Toxteth
1895 – Burlington Street free open-air baths opened.
1895 – Leyland and Bullins Bank head office moves to 36 Castle St
1895 – Liverpool Warehousing Co. Ltd founded
1895 – First of five free open air plunge pools – Burlington St 1895, Manfield St 1899, Gore St 1898, Green Lane 1899, Stanley Park 1923
1896 – First use in this country of an x-ray machine for surgical purposes – Professor Oliver Lodge assisted the orthopaedic surgeon Sir Robert Jones and Dr Charles Thurston Holland, physician at the Royal Southern Hospital in Liverpool, to take the first clinical X-ray in Britain, which revealed a bullet in a young boy’s hand
1896 – Pier Head landing stage extended – half a mile long
1896 – The Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic Association – Liverpool Motor Club 1906
1896 – The Liverpool Cotton Market moves indoors for the first time in its history – Brown’s Bldg overlooking Exchange Flags
1896 – Langton Dock Station opened – closed 1906
1896 – Nelson Dock Station opened (opposite Bramley-Moore pub) – closed 1956
1896 – Diamond Match factory (the ‘Matchy’) – Litherland – destroyed in Blitz
1896 – Bellerive FCJ Convent and School – Windermere Terrace, Princes Park
1896 – Everton Library opened
1896 – Aintree Institute (WP Hartley)
1896 – Sefton Park Palm House opened
1896 – Liverpool switch to playing in red
1896 – Empire Theatre renovated by designer Frank Matcham
1896 – Dingle Station underground extension for Overhead railway – Grafton st, station on Park Rd
1896 – St Benedict’s School, Kepler St/Ruperts Lane/Heyworth St, Everton – demolished 1976
1896 – Anfield Crematorium opens
1896/98 – Pearl Assurance building – St John’s Lane
1897 – Nos. 6 – 8 Castle St – Cheltenham & Gloucester
1897 – Electric Light Company opens Pumpfields Electric Works – closed 1985
1897 – Crawfords Biscuit factory – Binns Lane. Bombed in Blitz, closed 1990s
1897 – Victoria Settlement – York Terrace – Community Centre, Liverpool’s first women’s and children’s community centre
1897 – Breeze Hill Reservoir (still there but not in use)
1897 – Greenbank Park – Liverpool Corporation entered into an agreement with the Rathbone family to purchase the piece of land. The area was the former home of the Rathbone family, philanthropists through two centuries. The family acquired nearby Greenbank House in 1788 as a holiday house and remained there until 1940.
1897 – The Liverpool Tramway Transfer Act 1897 ratified the conversion to mechanical power and the end of horse pulled trams in 1902. Corporation buys Liverpool Tramway Company
1897 – St Georges Church demolished – becomes site of Queen Victoria monument in 1906
c1897 – Gildart Gardens – area of new tunnel exit now –
c1897 – Arley St Dwellings
1897 – Central Synagogue – Islington – destroyed in The Blitz 1941
1897 – Super Lyric Cinema – Everton Valley
1897/98 – City Education Offices – 14 Sir Thomas St – still there
1898 – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded (first in world) – Pembroke Place
1898 – White Star Building – James St. Albion House – Norman Shaw
1898 – First electric trams in Liverpool
1898 – Gypsum Boulder discovered in Crosby – 20tons
1898 – Fonthill Rd School – eventually becomes Kirkdale St Lawrence
1898 – Swan Inn est. – Wood St
1898 – Hardman St School for Blind moves to Church Rd North Wavertree
1898 – Olive Mount Cottages – Mill Lane, Wavertree. The site later became Olive Mount Children’s Hospital. Most of the buildings were demolished in 1992-3 but the main house, superintendent’s house, and remains of entrance lodge survive
1898 – W.E. Gladstone dies on 19th May at Hawarden
1898 – John Brodie became City Engineer. He introduced the first reserved tracks for the tramway.
1898 – Kings Dock rebuilt under the 1898 Dock Improvement Act and began to import fresh fruit from the Canary Islands, which was stored in quayside sheds
1899 – The end of shipbuilding on the north bank of the river came about in 1899 with the need to rebuild the south docks from Queens Dock to Herculaneum
1898/00 – Philharmonic Hotel – Walter Thomas
1899 – HMS Britomart – last large ship built for Royal Navy in Liverpool – W.H.Porter Queens Dock
1899 – Chancery House – Gordon Smith Institute for Seaman – end of Paradise St
1899 – Thomas Ogdens opens Boundary Lane Factory – bought out by American Tobacco Company in 1901, 1902 Imperial Tobacco. Closed March 2007.
1899/00 – Princes Jetty – AG Lyster – one of earliest examples of Hennebique reinforced concrete
1899 – MDHB launch £5,000,000 stock sale but only attract £92,000
1899 – Bessie Braddock born in Zante St Everton
1899 – Former Liverpool Union Bank (1899)/Lloyds Bank, 133 Upper Stanhope Street, Toxteth
1899 – Albert Dock – Part of the north stack (now the Merseyside Maritime Museum) is converted for use as a cold store and ice-making plant, by the Riverside Cold Storage and Ice Company. It remains in use until early 1950’s
1899 – British Lager Brewing Co Ltd – Devon St
1899 – RMS Oceanic II maiden voyage – 6th Sept – White Star Line
1899 – Trams – first 1d fares were introduced and each route was divided into penny stage.
1899 – Smithdown Rd Tram Depot – closed 1936
1899 – Ullet Road Unitarian Church – still there

8 Responses to 19th Century

Jack Eaton says:

January 4, 2017 at 8:52 am

Fascinating.

jeffrey Highton says:

February 21, 2017 at 8:04 am

I WAS born in Liverpool [sEFTON GEN] May 1940, the history of my home town that i have read in your page, what can i say, FANTASTIC thank you.

- Liverpool1207 says:
  
  April 22, 2017 at 9:22 am
  
  Many thanks Jeffrey, glad you found it interesting.
  
80948827mbh says:

October 13, 2018 at 4:44 am

Fascinating! What a lot of work to have done this. Thank you.
Marion

Stuart Dowding says:

August 29, 2020 at 7:45 am

Can any one assit as to” The Outmoor”
My great great grandfather Charles Dowding was appointed Inspector General of the Outmoor in 1834 and in 1840 became surveyor General.

- Liverpool1207 says:
  
  August 29, 2020 at 2:51 pm
  
  Hi Stuart, the title is actually ‘Inspector-General of the Outdoor Department’. Charles Dowding replaced Mr William Weston in October 1829.
  source – Gore’s Liverpool General Advertiser – Thursday 01 October 1829. The role appears to have something to do with customs and the port
  
Jo Mallon says:

January 1, 2021 at 3:18 pm

I found the history of Liverpool very interesting as I am researching my family tree. My 2nd great Grandfather died in 1910. In the probate it said he was of Great Howard Street, Liverpool, Coal Factor. Can anyone help with what it means by Coal Factor?

- Liverpool1207 says:
  
  January 2, 2021 at 2:50 pm
  
  A quick Google search will give you the answer.

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