Last updated
03 May 2006

Old Toxteth
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The files about the history of toxteth have grown and grown, so to make them manageable, I have split them into various sections.
Althought there is more information than ever, the presentation makes the content look very sparse.  
Please browse, everything that was once here, is still here with a lot of additional material as well.
 

Early days

Roman times, Domesday to 1765

Middle days

1765 to 1960 or so

Boundary of Toxteth

lot of published work seems to disagree

Dingle estate

Resturctured but  still some broken links

Herculaneum Pottery

One of Liverpool's and Toxteth's most famous manufactories

Irish Famine (Potato famine)

which had such a profound effect on Liverpool and eventually on toxteth

Lodge Lane Roperies

hardly ever mentioned, barely known.

Mersey Forge

Close to Roe's Copper works and the Herculaneum Pottery

Mersey Shore

the length of one toxteth boundary

Name changes (streets)

When Liverpool engulfed Toxteth many street names were changed

Old Toxteth buildings

Still being developed, please be patient

Penketh Hall

now vanished from Smithdown Road

Population

of Toxteth and Liverpool, coming on but incomplete - contributions welcomed

Roes Copper Works

A famous part of toxteth's history, but a minor chapter in Roe's

Squalid Liverpool

1883 newspaper report of one small area of toxteth

St Michaels Hamlet

still under development

Streams of Toxteth

Four main stream systems used to flow.

Toxteth and Harrington Waterworks

 In Lodge Lane and High Park Street

Toxteth Park Workhouse

Later Institution,later Infirmary and finally Hospital

Toxteth Park Cemetery

With many grade II listed features (file still in development)

Toxteth Fire Station

In Lark Lane from 1895 onwards