Fisher Street, Toxteth, Liverpool 8, England.
Forgotten street.
Fisher Street runs from Grafton Street (opposite Cains Brewery) to Caryl Street, and there's no public access these days. These photos were taken from the railings in Grafton Street and show the full length of the street.
Note the unusual wooden streetname which looks like it replaced a traditional sign above (note the six holes).
Lovely original setts run the whole length of the street which goes back at least as far as 1803, when it looks newly laid out (and unnamed) with a terrace of small properties (houses?) on the right hand side only.
An 1836 map shows 'court dwellings' on the left hand side.
Up to the 1950s (at least) the street had 18 little houses (not 'courts') all down the left hand side, and 8 more on the far end of the other side.
Half of the right hand side (nearest the camera) was a big open space (a bomb site?).
Nowadays it contains the rear of comparatively recent industrial properties in adjoining streets.
Text by Philip G Mayer.
Fisher Street, Toxteth, Liverpool 8, England.
Forgotten street.
Fisher Street runs from Grafton Street (opposite Cains Brewery) to Caryl Street, and there's no public access these days. These photos were taken from the railings in Grafton Street and show the full length of the street.
Note the unusual wooden streetname which looks like it replaced a traditional sign above (note the six holes).
Lovely original setts run the whole length of the street which goes back at least as far as 1803, when it looks newly laid out (and unnamed) with a terrace of small properties (houses?) on the right hand side only.
An 1836 map shows 'court dwellings' on the left hand side.
Up to the 1950s (at least) the street had 18 little houses (not 'courts') all down the left hand side, and 8 more on the far end of the other side.
Half of the right hand side (nearest the camera) was a big open space (a bomb site?).
Nowadays it contains the rear of comparatively recent industrial properties in adjoining streets.
Text by Philip G Mayer.