If like me you love old maps of Liverpool then I know just the man for you – Dave Wood
Dave has kindly made available a range of high-resolution ‘zoomable’ maps (and a few pictures), but beware they will captivate you for hours! The maps will open in new windows:
- 1766
- 1794
- 1807
- 1824
- 1836
- 1863
- 1880
- 1891 Toxteth/Mossley Hill
- 1894 Hornby and Bramley Moore Dock area
- 1894 Woolton and Gateacre
- 1900 with parks
- 1906 (Printed 1910) Map of Birkenhead and Toxteth
- 1907 Kirkdale
- 1909 Newsham Park and Stanley
- 1909 – West Derby, Croxteth Park, Knowsley
- 1910
- 1910 North
- 1913 Brighton, and Bootle
- 1928 Botanic Gardens – picture
- 1933 Toxteth South End mills – picture
- 1934 Liverpool Map including Historical and Literary references
- 1938
- 1942 Nazi Germany Map of Liverpool
- 1942
Nazi Germany Map of Edge Hill - 1942 Nazi Germany Map of South Liverpool
- 1942 Nazi Germany Map of Toxteth, Liverpool and Birkenhead
- 1946 – picture
- 1946 Bomb Damage – picture
- 1949 Aerial Photograph of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and Surrounding Area
I also strongly recommend a visit to Dave’s ‘Liverpool Images’ flickr page for some incredible photos
Other useful maps can be found at the following links:
- Conjectural map of Liverpool in the 14th century
- 1650 – zoomable
- 1664 – showing extent of original ‘Pool’
- 1765 – John Eyres
- 1780
- 1796 – John Gore
- 1806 – A Plan of Liverpool with the Environs published Jan 1806 – Gregory
- 1851 – zoomable
- 1883 – zoomable
- 1885 – Bacon’s map of Liverpool
- 1888 – Goads Insurance Maps
- 1900
