Heyworth Street

An intriguing and yet sad image shows the former Campfield Pub on Heyworth Street, now a mini supermarket. The devastation of all of the surrounding streets perfectly sums up the street clearances that unfolded from the 1960s, while on the opposite side of Heyworth Street the modern Everton Park begins to take root.

The Rogers lived at 12 Copeland Street, Colin, including my father Harry. Yes, the bottom corner of Copeland Street was bombed during the war to leave that waste land near St George's Hill. When I visited my grandfather in the 1950s, they still had gas mantles. Amazing.

Hello my name is Colin Wright (Colin Evans) I lived at 6 Copeland street. I think the Rogers family lived 2 doors up the street from me . The father used to sing in clubs I believe. There were the Haycocks and Normans as neighbour's also. There was waste land facing our house. Was this bombed in the war. We use to climb into the school yard to play football. The police use to chase out of the yard..

The Garrick Pub. My great grandfather George Frederick Nugent was the publican up to the First World War. Photographed with his three children and an unknown sailor.

Beautiful pictures. My great uncle Dr. Ellis Thomas Davies lived at 191 Heyworth Street, in 1881. Greetings from Chile, South America

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105-11 Heyworth Street. All gone now!

Heyworth Street Then & Now. Great comparison. Thanks to whoever uploaded it to Facebook.

Candlish Street

A fine evening shot of Heyworth Street and the Mere Bank Hotel by Sylvia Morgan.

Heyworth Street at Friar Street in the 1960s with Waterworths on the corner.

An intriguing aerial shot of old Everton. To get your bearings, St Benedict's Church is bottom left on Heyworth Street.

Heyworth Street School still standing at this point in time, but the adjacent Copeland Street has been demolished

The streets off Heyworth Street have gone, but at this point the old school still stands in the emerging Everton Park with its newly planted trees.

The 1960s clearances devastation that wiped out the old streets between Heyworth Street and Everton Terrace. If that is Heyworth Street School directly ahead, the first street this side would have been Copeland Street where my dad Harry and the Rogers' family hailed from.

A remarkable and unusual modern aerial picture uploaded to the Heyworth St Facebook by Philip Mackay showing Heyworth Street and St Domingo Road. St George's Church and the Beacon School can be seen bottom centre.

Heyworth Street once had many pubs. May Duncan's or what was once 'The Thistle' is one of the last left standing, this one on the Everton Park side of the road.

Heyworth Street and the Mere Bank pub.

Heyworth Street School Class. c1936. This is a restored and colourised copy of Howard Davies original photo. My late uncle, Kenneth Muir is fourth in from the right, the second row down. He lived at 104 Netherfield Road North.

Denis Hargreaves NRSA: 1970s? A horse belonging to Sid Welsh grazing on wasteland between Northumberland Terrace and Heyworth St. St Georges Heights in the background

This cleverly taken images features the Merebank Pub Heyworth Street, looking towards the distinctive tower of the former Everton Library. It appeared on the Netherfield Road and District Facebook platform.

The Merebank pub on Heyworth Street, captured beautifully during a dark evening by Sylvia Morgan.

Thanks go to Ernie Armstrong for this fascinating 'Then & Now' comparison of a busy Heyworth Street and the modern Everton Park. Remarkably, the postbox is still in situ!

I remember a Peter Hayes at Heyworth Street School. Back in the day 1955/1960, my name then was Joan Cliff .

Pupils at the former Heyworth Street School, including my father Harry, were all tremendously proud of this plaque on the playground wall that highlighted the heroics of Sgt David Jones, an ex-pupil, who won a Victoria Cross for valour on the Somme during World War One. Jones remains one of four men with Everton connections who have won VCs, being born in the district or having attended school there. This is something to be immensely proud of.

Pete Rigby uploaded this wonderful memory of Heyworth Street School to the Heyworth St & Surrounding Area Facebook: Marching up Heyworth Street, two abreast, on one of the class trips up to Everton Library with Mrs Morgan I can remember I had a packet of stink bombs in my top blazer pocket, and although none were broken they were giving off fumes making me feel dizzy and I walked into a wall on the corner of a street. Mrs Morgan came to see what had happened and someone snitched on what I had. She confiscated my stink bombs which when I asked for them back the next day she said she gave them to the caretaker to destroy.

The Priory pub, Heyworth Street, on the corner of Priory Road.

Heyworth's Street's Paganini Pub.

I'm fascinated by the two pictures below submitted by Howard Davies. The altar image inside St Benedict's Church is wonderful. Several years ago, as part of my ongoing 'Lost Tribe of Everton' memories project, I worked with the archaeological team of National Museums Liverpool - specifically at that time lead archaeologist Dr Mark Adams - on an exploratory dig just inside the Heyworth Street and Kepler Street boundary of the modern Everton Park. Within 30 minutes we had unearthed the north wall of St Benedict's with its familiar shiny red brickwork. We were quickly inside the basement area of the church and a side passageway with distinctive grilling. This confirmed in my mind that under the sweeping grass slopes of the modern park will be the foundations of many, if not all, of the streets, terraced houses, back yards etc of the old community. Clearly, rather than dig out these foundations, it was easier to mound soil over them to deliver the modern park we see today. A later dig in nearby Everton Village discovered the Victorian foundations and cellar area of what was originally the Queen's Head Hotel where, in 1879, the committee of the St Domingo's football team made the landmark decision to invoke a name change to Everton FC. The Queens Head thus became the birthplace of big time football on Merseyside. There is more detail on this in one of the later chapters of my 2016 EFC book of personal memories ' Born Not Manufactured - five decades of inside stories from the heart of Everton Football Club'. Howard's second picture of a 1936 Heyworth Street school class had me scouring it to see if it might have included my own father Harry Rogers. However, he would have been 12 then and these youngsters look about ten. Dad would leave school, like most contemporary kids, aged 14 and would soon be with the British Army fighting the Japanese in Burma during WW2. No doubt he never forget that a Heyworth Street old boy was Sergeant David Jones who won the Victoria Cross in 1916 during WW1 at the Battle of the Somme. It's amazing how a couple of pictures can stir up so many memories in a personal and historic sense. Thanks to all those who continue to submit photo and memories to this site.

Inside St Benedict's Church. At the altar is my mother Evelyn Hilton from 49 Stonewall Street marrying my father Geoffrey Davies on 28th July 1951. My Grandfather Bob Hilton is along side my mother and far right is my uncle Billy Hilton. The Vicar was Mr AWG Thomas. My cousin George Edwards who lived in the flat above the Heyworth pub, sang in the choir at St Benedict's for 9 pence a week but then moved up the road to St Georges where they paid 1s 6d.

Heyworth Street School in about 1936. My mother Evelyn Hilton, who lived at 49 Stonewall Street, is 4th from the right on the back row.

Looking across Heyworth Street towards Mission Place with cars outside the yummy former Watts' Scouse Pie shop, one of many 'pie fan' images on this reel, with the garage next door and the tower of St George's peeping over the roof.

Heyworth Street School and one of the classes of 1959. There are other years further down this reel.

A sad image as we look across towards Heyworth Street following the demolition of its well know side streets like Cochrane, Amos and Minera with the famous Heyworth Street School still visible on the right of the image. My grandparents lived in the street beyond the school, Copeland.

Heyworth Street once had shops along its full length. This was the first block south of the Merebank Pub which can be seen with the tower of the old library beyond that.

The Co-op on Heyworth Street was well known and well used by the local community. This store was opposite Hamilton Road.

The wonderful St George's Church looking rather moody in late November 1969. That Christmas day, me and dad trekked up Leadenhall Street for a quick pint in the Mere Bank before Christmas dinner. To our surprise, holding court at the bar and clutching a pint was Neville Black resplendent in his robes imbibing after carrying out the morning Christmas day service across the road at the church. Thirsty work indeed! Known affectionately as the 'Rev Nev' by all at 611 Squadron ATC at the Barracks on Everton Road, where he provided chaplain duties to the squadron. A few months later I visited his home in Shaw Street to arrange the reading of our Banns in St George's for our upcoming wedding where he charged me 17/6d for the service. He was a great character.

146-148 Heyworth Street and memories of Wendy's Knitwear, Radcliffe's Grocers and the Hong Kong Bay chip shop.

A moody shot looking up across demolished land towards Heyworth Street as a man on his old bike makes his way home. This was uploaded to the Netherfield Road Facebook platform buy Derek Rothwell.

Queensway Cleaners on the corner of Heyworth Street and Danby Street, 1968.

Familiar shops on Heyworth Street before demolition included Moss's newsagents, Bonnette's with its handbags in the widow, the Shoe Repairers that also sold Pink Paraffin, and Radcliffe's grocery store. Like its main Everton counterparts, there was a time when you you never needed to travel very far to deal with your daily needs.

A small Heyworth Street shop with its distinctive Capstan advertising sign above the door, with Elmore Street to the left and Lance Street to the right. Heyworth Street School was on the other side of the road.

An old image of St George's Church before the ornate roof fineals were removed for safety reasons.

Heyworth Street School class of 1932. My late mother, Alwyn Muir, third in from the right, second row down from the top.

Heyworth Street School class of 1934. My late mother, Alwyn Muir, 5th in from the left, top row. I can recall when these photos were shown to us as children, my mother recalling the names and saying what had become of some of these children. Some died from the dreadful childhood illnesses of the era. Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Wooping Cough. Others in the air raids.

Wong's chippy was well known on Heyworth Street.

Another great shot of the Thistle pub, Heyworth Street.

The Raven Public House on the corner of Cochrane Street and Heyworth Street. Weavers chippy which sold the most delicious chips, especially out of the paper, was next door but one.

Heyworth Street Co-op and Whites Confectioners opposite Hamilton Rd. Whites was noted for its' Merangue snowmen. A delicacy which was probably responsible for quite a few visits to the dentist when the small silver balls used as buttons cracked a few teeth or led to fillings. The Co-op operated the hydraulic air system which used brass containers where your money was placed and sent to the office at the back of the store. It was a truly wonderous contraption for a nine year old boy to see.

St Benedict's Church from Breck Road corner.

Walkers Supermarket and the Taxi Rank near Watt's Bakery.

Corner of Heyworth St with Stanfield Road. This photo shows a leather/upholsterers which my father told me my Grandfather used when he made his own shoes or resoled other peoples shoes. He used to send my dad, when he was young, to the man that had the shop to ask him for a role of his finest leather and NO rubbish. Turns out the two men served in the Liverpool Kings Regiment in the Boer War when my Grandfather was a Sergeant Major.

An ice cream van in Heyworth Street near to Wentworth Street

Heyworth Street at Mere Lane.

The famous tiled Threlfalls brewery pub that stood on the corner of Heyworth Street and Breck Road.

The new Everton Park is beginning to take shape, but St Benedict's Church's days are numbered on Heyworth Street. A fascinating shot looking east.

Costigan's on Heyworth Street.

I would like to re-connect with Alan Bruce. Please send me an email at peter@mothertonguepublishing.com. We were in the same class in Heyworth Street School 1955-1961. St. Benedict's was across the street from us on Cadmus Street (first street next to Breck Road). It was here at St. Ben's where I was sent by my dad to learn some Bible lessons. I ended up reciting the Ten Commandments, but a fat lot of good that did, lol. Lots of great memories and as someone mentioned there was an underground swimming pool where we once played 'Duck Apple' in the small pool as the teacher threw them in for us to retrieve 'hands free, gobs only'. Our class also received training in artificial respiration and all proudly got a small bronze badge/medal each. Peter in Canada.

Heyworth Street's Garrick Pub at Lance Street.

An usual shot of Heyworth Street school

A modern Heyworth Street shot towards the Everton Water Tower.

Heyworth Street 1949

The Maypole store on Heyworth Street.

Pupils of the famous Heyworth Street School in 1960.

Heyworth Street had many shops and businesses. This classic block and street has long gone and Brian Rea gives us a superb insight into what it looks like now (see below).

Brian Rea's great comparison photo of this block on Heyworth Street (see above). The Old Campfield pub has now become a One Stop shop for groceries and the like, important for the community, but you can't get a pint of best bitter!

This map image doesn't paint the whole street picture across Everton (for that go to Home Page and Maps Section), but it does show the central streets off Heyworth Street and Netherfield Road and will help you with your imaginary wanderings to remind you of the way it was in our famous district.

Few people can remember too many houses on Heyworth Street and so this was an interesting upload from Stephen Noonan on Netherfield Road & Surrounding Area Facebook. Stephen said this is number 97 which stood between Cochrane Street and the Co-op.

Irene Delaney Edgar from the Netherfield Road & Surrounding Area Facebook group uploaded this excellent picture of a group of shops on Heyworth Street. Dennis Hargreaves' knowledge helps to complete the picture left to right. The Priory Hotel on the corner of Heyworth and Priory Rd, Gaulton's Greengrocers, Morrison's newsagents/confectioners, Bonnette's (a wool shop we think|), a shoe repairers, and Radcliffe's grocers on the corner of Heyworth and Priory Mount

Uncle Charlie's Lunatic Asylum or the UCLA Laundry on the corner of Heyworth Street and Priory Road!

My mum was Vera Rooke. She lived in 123a Heyworth Street. Above Lily Marsdens sweet shop.

Heyworth Street at Hamilton Road.

Another of those pictures post the clearances in which you have to use your memory to remember the way it was. This nis looking across to Heyworth Street with the Elephant Pub still standing on the left on the corner of Stonewall Street.

The Old Campfield Pub on Heyworth Street, named after the the park site opposite where thousands of Royalist troops, led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, prepared to take the town of Liverpool in 1644 during the English Civil War. The pub was transformed into a mini supermarket shop in 2018.

Great to see this busy picture of Heyworth Street in the 1960s.

Heyworth Street at its junction with Danby Street.

Heyworth Street's St George's Pub

A colourised version of the famous Watts' Scouse Pie Shop and Beacon garage by Brian Rea, with the Mission down the street to the left.

A fine shot of Heyworth Street at its junction with Friar Street, uploaded first by Brian Rea on the Netherfield Road & Surrounding area Facebook platform. I've always been interested in the old Heyworth Street butchers, Fletchers is featured here. My father Harry Rogers was a messenger boy for a butchers on this road when he left school in 1938 and always recalled memories of his exploits.

Another angle of Heyworth Street's former St Benedict's Church.

A remarkable aerial shot of Everton Park with Netherfield Road to the left and Heyworth Street to the right. This was taken as part of the Biennial involvement in the park with the visionary Fritz Haeg who produced a ‘Foraging Spiral’ in the park bowl in 2012. Haeg was working with the community, not least the Friends of Everton Park

Fritz Haeg's 'Foraging Spiral' in the Everton Park Bowl adjacent to Heyworth Street, part of a 2012 Biennial community project. The image captures the historic Everton Water tower in the background.

A Heyworth Street link with Roscommon Street from Roy Sinclair who says: This is a photo of Heyworth Street School around 1920. My mother is in the front row. The family at the time lived at 81 Roscommon Street - that's why it is under that name. My Mothers Mother's family came from the Holsteins and were Carters - probably bringing goods from the Docks into Liverpool itself. Her father's side were Broughtons who had several Master Cobblers who went on to form probably what became the Broughton Shoe Factory. I know little about them other than there were stables at 81 Roscommon. One Holstein family Member went on to own and run Wilsons Butchers - which may have been at the bottom of Roscommon Street near Gt. Homer Street. I don't remember the address but do remember having pigs eyes thrown at me when I visited the shop as a child in the late 1950's!

From Joan Hatch nee Cliff: Heyworth Street School. Infants and Juniors, mixed Infants, girls/Boys Juniors.I went to this School age 5 to age 11, We had our own swimming pool in the basement.

Heyworth St. Memories of doing the shopping with mum or going for a 'message' here.

Earlam's Newsagents at the corner of Jefferson St. and Heyworth St. Sad to see it in this condition. It was a lovely shop and Mr. and Mrs. Earlam were lovely people.

Happy Memories, cooking for the children of St George’s School xx

St George’s Church on Heyworth Street, through the trees you can see the buildings that was St George’s School. I was the cook for the children here.

The playground at Heyworth Street School will be familiar to many people, including my father Harry Rogers who attended in the 1930s. Thanks to Irene Delaney who posted this on the 'Netherfield Road and Surrounding Area' Facebook page.

Heyworth Street School.

Heyworth Street School .

A remarkable aerial shot the length of Heyworth Street and Netherfield Road. The grand houses are still standing on one side of Fitclarence Street (bottom left) running down from Everton Road to Eastbourne Street. Village Street, one up from Fitzclarence, still has some properties intact including the well known People's Church which can be clearly seen. While the High Rise flats are beginning to dominate along Netherfield Road, much of the terraced street housing further up the hill is still intact.St George's Church is visible top right. How many other landmarks can you pinpoint?

The Thistle Pub on Heyworth Street with a haunting picture of St Benedict's Church on Kepler Street in mid-demolition. In 2015 I worked on an archaeological dig on the site of the former St Benedict's, working with National Museums Liverpool. Within half an hour we were down in the church cellars and could clearly see the shiny red brick that faced the church walls.

Happy School days from 5years old, Infants to Juniors 11years old. Then on to Prince Rupert Secondary Modern for Girls , ( Steer Street ) .

The Heyworth Public House. My mum use to clean this pub of a weekend. On the corner of Kepler St, facing was a Beautiful Church, St Benedicts and next to the pub was a School.

You may recognise some old neighbours from this Heyworth Street list provided by Joan Hatch.

Cottle's Chemist next to the Merebank pub on Heyworth Street, looking across from St George's Church.