Stanhope Street runs from Sefton Street
(Dock Road) at the Coburg Pub,
it crosses Caryl Street and runs past The
Angel.
At the Grafton Street, junction is The Grapes (The
Brewery Tap) and the Mersey
Brewery itself. This junction was also the site of the
Harrington County Primary School, now demolished, the site is presently
a car park for the brewery.
At present the course of the street is broken
at this junction, as the brewery has extended across, and closed
off, Stanhope
Street. It continues on the other side of the brewery site.
At
its junction with Beaufort Street was
situated The Bishop. Just beyond,
on the opposite side of the road was a building marked as a 'garage'
on the 1905 map, but which was also locally known as 'The
Kardomah' perhaps because it was the distribution centre for the
coffee shops of the same name.
A
little further along its course, Stanhope Street is now accesible
again, but only from St James's Place. A few original houses remain
along with traces of the railway station which once served this
area and Parliament Street.
After its one-sided junction with Gore Street Stanhope
Street proper ends
at St James Place where it
becomes Upper Stanhope Street.
An apparent continuation of Upper Stanhope Street on the far side of Princes
Avenue was rechristened to Selborne Street and Beaumont Street at
some time after 1860 (when the old names are still shown in the
Gore's directory).
1829 Gore shows Harrington Free School at number 18 Stanhope Street.
J A Picton (Memorials of Liverpool) records "A Welsh Baptist Chapel was erected on the north side of Stanhope Street in 1834, taken down in 1870 for the purposes of the Railway Tunnel."
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