Prince Edwin Street

A newspaper cutting found when researching the family history.....family dates back to 1850s, with german pork butchers living for many years in Athol Street with other relatives in the area

The properties in the 1950 photo above were known as "Scotch Terraces". The units below the landings were probably shops when built.

Hi my name is Bernie Vincent. I used to live in this house at the top of Prince Edwin Street with my Nin and grandad been looking for an image of this for ages. We used to play in the school playground when no one was there. Great memories, especially going the outside toilet with the Echo as toilet paper. Also venturing down in the old cellar which wasn’t scary then but would be now and waiting for Grandad to bring us crisp and lemo from the pub over the road. Ta

1960 and a lady throws a bucket of dirty water into the gutter alongside the busy (and cramped) Wellington Buildings between Prince Edwin Street and Prince Edwin Lane. April Grove runs across the top.

The old Prince Edwin Street adventure playground.

A great image of St Ambrose Church that stood on Prince Edwin Street.

This image was researched by Denis Hargreaves of the Netherfield Road Facebook platform. It’s the 1950s and the Prince’s pub is pictured (left) with the converted St Ambrose Mission Hall (right) and the Prince Edwin Street adventure playground in between. All gone now. See reflections of the Prince's pub and other district memories below, provided by Les Roberts.

Les Roberts, who is 92, gave permission for these wonderful memories of his early life in an around Prince Edwin Street.. Many thanks to his brother-in-law Richy Dodd who helped him with this fascinating upload. Les was born in a pub called the PRINCES on the corner of Prince Edwin Street and Kermode Street. His father John Roberts was the Licensee. The family consisted of 4 girls and 3 boys. When his father died in 1947 his mother asked the Brewery if she could take over the License but the request was refused. When Les was 15 he came home from work and found his Mother, 2 Sisters and 4 suitcases on the pavement, they had been evicted! The family was split up and lived with various family members and friends until they were rehoused. The pub was attached to Brown's Building No.1 which was demolished at the end of 1938. A similar fate awaited Browns Building No.2 but it had to wait until the end of the WW2 before that was also demolished. Opposite Brown's Building was St Ambrose Church Hall where the Boys Brigade Band practiced. Off Prince Edwin Street, between Brown's Building, was Ebor Street that led to Prince Edwin Street playground, with swings and a maypole. In the corner was a water tap with a lead cup on a chain (what health and safety !) As children, one of the games they played was seasonal. When cherries were being sold in the shops they would save the stones and maybe 3, 4 or 5 boys would have 5 cherry stones each. Sitting in the pavement they would each place a cherry stone on the pavement beneath a drain spout. They would take turns of throwing a stone up the drain and those stones it hit were his. The winner was the one with the most stones. It could go on for ages! The name of the game was “up the spout” (innocence of those far off days) Also children would climb into waste bins where shopkeepers had thrown away rotten fruit, wipe on their clothes and then eat the best bits of the fruit. In 1941, four houses in Cornwallis Street and Sheriff Street were bombed, as was the air raid shelter in Sheriff Street. The shops Les remembers are Mrs Harrison’s on Prince Edwin Street which was a greengrocers. The corner of China Street and Kermode Street was Mrs Bentham who sold sweets and lemonade. There was Mr Coates who sold milk from a churn on a horse drawn cart and you took your own jug to fill. At the dairy called Wallbrecks you could get milk in bottles. Next to Wallbrecks was a coal yard and further down a chippy owned by the coal yard people. In Bute Street was a bakers and you could take your own dough and they would bake it for you. Further down was a Coopers and you could watch the men make barrels. On the corner of Bute Street and Fox Street was Berry & Warmington, Scale Manufacturers. Also on the corner of Bute Street and Fox Street was the church of St Mary of the Angels. Two Nuns from the Church would accompany a Green box cart with steps at the back and pulled by a horse and they would call at shops to collect money, fruit and bread etc for the poor. The Reverent Pocock was the Vicar of St Ambrose Church on Prince Edwin Street. Mrs Williams who lived in Kermode Street was the Knocker Upper and Les believes Margie Clark, who became a Councillor in Kirkby, was her niece. March and April Courts were at the top of Prince Edwin Street, opposite Prince Edwin Street Infant School. Garden Lane, a cobbled street only wide enough for a hand cart, was nearby. Les got his hair cut at Kingsleys in Roscommon Street. There were budgies and canaries in the shop! When the shop was bombed he got his hair cut at Pop Joys down in a cellar next to Woolworths in Great Homer Street. Stobas, a Pork Butchers in Everton Road, made their own pork pies in their kitchen at the rear. Paddy’s market was then on one side of Scotland Road and when it got bombed everyone moved to Cazneau Street. Les worked for Melias who had grocery shops. Head Office and warehouse was located in Cazneau Street. They moved to Love Lane when Cazneau Street was bombed. The family doctors were Doctor McCabe and Doctor Devlin in Shaw Street. They didn’t continue practising when the NHS was formed. On one occasion Les went on his own to the Royal Hospital in Pembroke Place to get a carbuncle removed from his neck. He was sent home to get a note from his parents. He returned with a note from his mother, giving permission for him to undergo surgery. He remembers coming round and hearing the surgeon discussing fishing with the nurse. He was asked if he was ok and was sent home. Les can remember he wasn’t very steady on his feet and didn’t have a clear head as he walked home. When he got to the pub, his mother gave him toast and Oxo and he was put to bed. Les was 13 years of age ! The schools Les attended were Prince Edwin Street Infants aged 5 - 8. Everton Terrace Juniors 8 - 11. Then Roscommon Street 11 - 14. However he missed about a year of education when he was evacuated in 1940 to Hoylake and then Stoke.

This fascinating image was uploaded by Denis Hargreaves to the Netherfield Road Facebook platform. It features Prince Edwin Street School, which was originally a Wesleyan School. St Ambrose Church would be built on the left of it in1870.The old school was demolished to make way for the new school with the playground on the roof c1930

The well known mobile van that once stood on waste ground in Prince Edwin Street

With a lot of my family coming from this area I have located both Prince Edwin Street and Lane, but, I also have references to Prince Edwin View, Prince Edwin Terrace and Back Prince Edwin Street. Can anyone shed any light as to the locations of these? Thanks SjH.

I’ve long been fascinated by the Everton Tunnel that never was with its proposed grand entrance, pictured here, planned for Prince Edwin Street. This ambitious underground engineering project would have connected heartland Liverpool 5 with Utting Avenue in Anfield. Powers were granted under the Liverpool Corporation Act of 1927 to also build a tramway along the tunnel, its road meant to provide a link between what was then the new Mersey Tunnel and East Lancashire Road, both opened by King George V on the same day in 1934. Dense housing areas separated the two transport arteries and it was thought that a tunnel, rather than a normal road, would avoid costly and unnecessary demolition of thousands of properties. The cost of the tunnel project at that time would have been £2m with Liverpool Corporation prepared to pay a quarter. Trial borings were made, but the tunnel was never built and the scheme was abandoned after WW2. Of course, the famous ‘Prinny Eddy’ ironically now stands amidst the greenery of the modern Everton Park, but just imagine if it had become one of the city’s busiest traffic hubs going up and under the hill.

Prince Edwin Adult Centre, 1980s.

Prince Edwin Street 1980s: Campion High School. It was St Gregory's until the early 80s. It became Campion in 1981 when Campion school on Shaw Street/Langsdale Street closed and combined with what was then St Gregory’s.

Kids play in the old Prince Edwin Street outside the the former Fenlow & Son business premises in 1914. It looks like one boy has no shoes, highlighting the early poverty in the area. My great grandparents lived in this famous street.

Prince Edwin Street at Fox Street with the Reece's milkman busy on his morning round.

A truck heads for 'Greaty' off Prince Edwin Street in 1966.

Prince Edwin Street viewed from Great Homer Street in 1913, shortly before the First World War. Picture first uploaded to Netherfield Rd & SA Facebook by Denis Hargreaves.

An example of the old densely packed court properties that once stood in small streets and alleys off Prince Edwin Street, This one was taken in 1913

A map researched by Denis Hargreaves of the Netherfield Rd & SA Facebook platform showing Kermode and Ebor Streets off Prince Edwin Street and the lines of some of the old court properties that would have included Brown's Buildings where my great grandparents Robert and Ellen Wareing lived in the late 1800s.

Prince Edwin Street from Kermode Street, first uploaded to Netherfield Road & SA by Denis Hargreaves.

Prince Edwin Street maisonettes, now gone along with the old houses.

Prince Edwin Street 1930s

The former shops at the bottom of Prince Edwin Street, pictured in 1914, that would ultimately be demolished to make way for the Mersey Tunnel approaches.

I do love this picture of Prince Edwin Street, viewed from Netherfield Road South. It features the former St Ambrose Church on the right where my mother May Wareing (Rogers) went as a young girl. I still proudly keep her Prayer Book, presented in 1938 for regular attendance. It is signed by the vicar, the Rev AM Pocock who was well known in the Everton district.

The famous old houses on Prince Edwin Street showing Jones' coal yard.

A little girl by the entry alongside Wellington Buildings, Prince Edwin Street, in 1960.

A wonderful image of Wellington Buildings to the left of the gas lamp from April Grove off Prince Edwin Street.

Prince Edwin demolition - a sad sight.

A colour image of the Prince Edwin Street prefabs.

The Lodges gather on Prince Edwin Street for another march. The little girl is Lesley Ann Austin.

The back of the Prince Edwin Street tenements from the now demolished Upper Beau Street. This had been a fantastic community area.

Prince Edwin Street Primary School kids in 1957.

I really enjoyed seeing the fantastic postcard of St Ambrose Church picnic below and mention of the vicar,Rev AM Pocock, in the 1920s and 30s. I have my mother's Common Prayer Book dated 1938 with an illuminated inscription inside for "Regular Attencance." She was ten at the time. It is signed by Rev Pocock.

A post card photo of St Ambrose Church Picnic 1900. The Church was at top left side of Prince Edwin Street. The Church was C of E and Mr Pocock was the Vicar during 1920- 30 years

A great shot looking down at the extent of the Prince Edwin Street prefabs.

Denis Hargreaves from Netherfield Road & SA Facebook says: This was 1970's Prince Edwin St prefabs,looking at the junction of Beresford Street. The first prefab was number 70 and the one on the right was 70a. The flats on the right of the prefabs were also in Prince Edwin Street.

Wellington Buildings were between Prince Edwin Street and Prince Edwin Lane.

Despite the quality of this picture it has great interest, looking down towards Prince Edwin Street with its familiar tenements and the short term properties to the right. I was great friends with the Wright family who lived in the tenements, not least Suzannah (Suzie) Wright who was a great lady, proud of her sons John, Kenneth and Davy.

Another great image of the former St Ambrose Church.

Prince Edwin Street was once part of a bustling community. It is seen here prior to demolition, dominated by the emerging tower blocks across Everton Heights.

Prince Edwin Street, slum clearance. So sad to see this photo, demolition of the Everton Area, this brought so much heartache to many families in the area.

Could this be rush hour in Prince Edwin Street in 1920? Not a car in sight. Even the lone bicycle has broken down, unless the rider is just clearing the manure of his wheels. Clearly a horse and cart had just trundled up a little earlier to break the silence. However, nothing is going to stop the little girls, bottom right, from practicing their Green Cross Code. At the kerb, stop. Look to the right. Look to he left. If nothing other is coming, walk carefully across. Come on kids . . . go for it!

Campion Boys RC High School, Prince Edwin Street.

These unusual 1950s properties with their landings and steps were at the junction of Iliad Street and Prince Edwin Street.