At the summit of Park Road (shown left) High Park Street starts and runs uphill from here. Passing the present Fire Station (Fire and Rescue Service)  iot reaches, after a short way, what is arguably the highest point of Toxteth.  (a second point at the top of Lodge Lane is the same altitude!). The road starts trending downhill again, just after the reservoir, it runs on then to Princes Road.

At the highest point, 192 feet, were once situated mills to catch the winds and here rose the source of the Dingle Brook which flowed down a small valley which was to become Park Road, past the Ancient Chapel and on through the Dingle estates to the Mersey. Later than this there was a famous historical building  sited here, The Peacock Inn. 

 
Situated along High Park Street are the churches of St Peters and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.  Formerly a third church and its associated school were here, this was St Silas. (right) which was demolished in 1954.

Also on High Park Street can be found Toxteth Town Hall, (far left) at the junction with Letitia Street (left). On the other side of this junction is a famous covered reservoir surrounded by a characteristic sandstone wall and with a tower in one corner. This once belonged to the Toxteth and Harrington Waterworks Company.  It is no longer in use but is a listed 'building'.  This and Our Lady of Mount Carmel occupy the summit of High Park Street now.

Only three pubs seem to have been built here. The Masonic (No 2) which stood on the corner of Park Road and High Park Street has gone and the site is now a patch of unused land, close to the fire station. Gore for 1938 records another pub, on the same side, The Old Stingo (No 72) on the corner of Greta Street, this, too, is no longer.


On the odd numbered side is the third pub, The Empress(No 93),  a famous one, as it featured on Ringo Starr's first solo album 'Sentimental Journey'.  This still stands, as do some of the terraces associated with his childhood.  These were to have been demolished in the name of progress but a widespread public protest seems to have strangled an amazingly short-sighted 'improvement' plan.

Looking back along High Park Street, from Rhiwlas Street and Madryn Street, towards Park Road, you can again get an idea of the gradient, layout and view