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History:
The age and construction of Jordan Street is not yet known. It is not included
in Gore's (first) directory for 1766, however it has appeared by the 1821 edition.
No early directories between these dates have been examined as yet.
Placing: Jordan Street runs
more or less parallel to Parliament Street, from the Dock Road (this is Chaloner Street
at this point) to St. James Street. At no point does any of the street run within
toxteth and this is true for all past Parliamentary boundaries. However its
proximity to toxteth and the fact that it is on the maps and of personal interest,
means that it is included on the site.
In the 1894 Gore it is measured as 396
yards long. In 1900 its official 'address' is given as 20 St James Road, when
it is judged to be 388 yards long. In Gore of 1926 its address is given as 110
St. James Street, numberings in Jordan St run from St James St increasing
towards Chaloner Street. Using this orientation the left side (looking towards
the docks) is odd-numbered.
Addresses
6
In 1858 Mary Hayden gives this address when she marries.
This is towards the junction with St James Street, probably in the small houses
between that street and the Hair Works.
20 The Slaters directory for 1848
records a Bridewell at 20 Jordan Street, the keeper is David Wilson.
14
is a Bridewell in 1858, this seems to be the junction with Newhall Street. The 'keeper' is David Wilson
as in 1848. However in the Gore
of 1860 this 'Bridewell' is recorded as a 'Pinfold', of which there were three in Liverpool. (A
pinfold was an enclosure, possibly locked, for confining stray or wandering
animals, sheep or cattle until claimed by their owners, who then had to pay
a fine to recover them. A pinder, pounder, punder or keeper was the official
in charge of a pinfold. It was this official who was responsible for rounding
up and impounding stray and wandering animals). These were clearly in use at
this time as a report in the Liverpool Mercury in 1847 records a recovered,
stolen, lamb being taken to the Pinfold in Rose Place (Rose Hill according to
Gore). There is only one pinfold shown in the 1881 Kelly, that is 11 & 15
Rose Hill. The next record is for the Police
in the 1894 Kelly and this shows a Pinfold at 20a Jordan Street.
The Jordan
Street entry for this year shows a Fire Engine Station and Police
Pinfold at this address, giving a little more detail again. Notable is that
there are two warehouse keepers at this address - this was to become the job of
Inspector Michael Hayden after he
left the police. He may well have been stationed here although a later move
to Exssex Street Bridewell and Fire Engine Station seems likely.
21 In 1858 James McGrievy
gives this as his address when he marries Mary
Hayden, daughter of Inspector Michael Hayden (a Bridewell is at number 20!)
24
Lucy Emma
SPEAR, born 9 Jan 1858 at 24 Jordan Street, Liverpool, christened
29 May 1859 at St Peter's, Liverpool
27 &
29 are shown below, they sit just past the Newhall
Street junction.
67 was
a boarding house in 1861
68 and 68a
are boat builders yards in 1894 (shown below)
70 Jordan Street, Mary Jane Carroll,
24 years died
16/1/1936, buried in
in Ford Cemetery,
Section: JL,
Private Plot 560,
Plot Owner: Annie Harrison who is buried in same grave (died 1962)
Buildings:
Pubs
The
Cross Foxes 15 Jordan Street, 1848 Slater, Ralph Close, licensee.
Organ
Tavern, 22 or 27 (image problem), 1848 Slater, Thomas Brown licensee
The
Grapes, 56 Jordan Street, 1848 Slater, Thomas Butterfield, licensee
Un-named
premises, retailer of beer George Askew, 44 Jordan Street, 1848 Slater
Bridewell
(mentioned above) at 14, 20 and 20a
Methodist Church, number
as yet not established. After it fell into disuse the Methodist Church
in Jordan Street was purchased by Mr. Edward Chaloner who handed it over
to the congregation of St. Vincent de Paul Roman (Catholic Church, St. James
Street), ready-furnished as a school.
Schools : The school opened on 4 Jan 1859.
The premises were later demolished and new schools were built in Norfolk Street,
called the Chaloner Schools. They were enlarged in 1893 and were, in turn, superceded
by the primary school in Pitt Street (opened September 1955).
The 'Stranger in Liverpool'
for 1836 mentions what must be another school (predating
the opening of above by over 20 years) as follows:-" One [school] connected with Jordan-street
day and Sunday schools, containing at present 230 infants, under the direction
of a superintendent and mistress. This school, which was the first establishment
of its kind in Liverpool, and which has attained the greatest magnitude, affords
also, we believe, the best specimen of the mode and practice of infant tuition;
and we cannot propose to the stanger in Liverpool a higher gratification than
that which must arise from a visit to this interesting seminary."
DIRECTORIES
1821 does not give a street
listing, however an
image has been constructed using an electronic 'search', this may of
course miss some addresses and must not be regarded as definitive. A transcript
will follow once I have time.
1843
Gore
1848 Slater
gives some trade addresses for Jordan Street but no overall listing for the
street
1860
Although measurements are given for Jordan Street
in the 1860 Gore there is no entry for the street's inhabitants.
1881
Kelly
1894
Kelly
1911
Gore
1936
Gore
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