Comments on: Church Street 1880

By: Julie Freeman

Julie Freeman — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:12:22 +0000

Thank you for this picture. I have just discovered that that my great grandparents married at St Peter’s in 1878. When I first started working in Liverpool in the late 70′s, I worked at Spinney House (Littlewoods), only yards from the site of this church, yet I never knew the history of the church.

By: Brenda M

Brenda M — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:44:36 +0000

Lovely picture!! My maternal grandparents were married at St Peters Church shown here on 31st May 1891. They lived in Cropper Street and St Peters was their parish church.

By: Maureen M

Maureen M — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:47:18 +0000

On the pavement outside of the new development, where Woolworths used to be is a brass cross which used to be the altar of the church – both maternal and paternal grandparents were married at the church.

By: Darren White

Darren White — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:00:50 +0000

The building on the extreme left went on to become the first F.W. Woolworth & Co. 3d & 6d Store in Great Britain.

“The 1st UK Store [1909-1923] at 25 & 25a Church Street, Liverpool was already an existing building before F.W.Woolworth & Co. Ltd came to the city. According to Joseph Sharples, author of Liverpool, Pevsner Architectural Guides describes it as:

‘the Italianate shop now occupied by Clarkes was designed by Lewis Hornblower, c. 1858, for the art metalworkers and electroplater’s Elkington’s. The Builder disliked the thin columns to the upper floors, ‘which suggest rain-water pipes without being so’.”

Part extract of a report posted on Yo-Liverpool. Full report, refer to Post#71 on the link below.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?4377-Woolworths-Liverpool/page8&highlight=woolworths

By: Nigel Kavanagh

Nigel Kavanagh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:06:56 +0000

wonderful Pictures, thank you !

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:25:26 +0000

Many thanks for this website, lovely clear photos of the city as it was. The picture of the three scruffy boys brought tears to my eyes, as I remember kids dressed like this – I’d be about the same age as them. What made it worse was that some of them had lost their fathers in the war and this was the best Britain could do for them. The memory of the poverty kids like these endured – yet they can still smile for the camera – still pains me sixty years on. I hope life was kinder to them in later years.