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20 famous streets in Liverpool,UK with the reason of them being famous. Please, it’s important.
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20 famous streets in Liverpool,UK with the reason of them being famous. Please, it’s important.
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January 25th, 2007 at 5:04 am
Abbey Road cos it was on the cover of the Beatles album
January 25th, 2007 at 6:59 am
20 and 21 and 23….,
January 28th, 2007 at 6:04 am
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Struggling to remember why they are famous.
January 31st, 2007 at 7:36 am
Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields are famous because The Beatles wrote songs about them. Menlove Avenue is famous because it’s where John Lennon grew up in his aunt Mimi’s house. Sorry don’t know any more!
January 31st, 2007 at 10:47 am
1st answer Abby Road is in London not Liverpool.
Ok famous streets
Aforementioned Penny Lane, Brodie Avenue (Brodie invented goal nets and duel carriageways). Mathew St (Cavern), Lord Nelson St(China town), Great Mersey Street(old road down to the docks), Husskison St (British priminister), Hope Street(links the two cathedrals), The Goree (the old road behind the pier head), Exchange Flags (famous statue situated here), Menlove avenue( john Lennon’s home) Fortlyn Road (Paul McCartney’s house) Church St (Present Marks and Spencer building was first American embassy in the world) Falkner Square (only Confederate embassy) William Brown St (World heritage site) Tithbarn St (where the taxes used to be paid) Castle St (site of Liverpool Castle which was besieged in the civil war) Rodney St(named after the admiral but now where doctors hold private practice) Scotland Road( a pub on every corner) Cheapside, (site of an old police station) and Chavasse park, Named after the Bishop of Liverpool’s son Dr Noel Chavasse of the RAMC and doctor to the Liverpool Scottish Pals Battalion, one of only three people to have won the Victoria Cross twice.
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Let’s get the ones relating to The Beatles out of the way first…..
1) Abbey Road : Beatles cover (see ADDENDUM below.)
Admiral Grove : where Ringo Starr most famously lived.
2) Penny Lane : Beatles song.
3) Church Street : location of St. Peters Church, where Paul McCartney and John Lennon were first introduced.
4) Mathew Street : home of The Cavern Club, where The beatles and many, many other great bands have played over the years.
5) Menlove Avenue : where John Lennon most famously lived.
6) Forthlin Road : where Paul McCartney most famously lived.
7) Arnold Grove : where George Harrison most famously lived.
And on to the others …..
9) Mill Road : home of the famous maternity hospital where all true Scousers are born (me amongst them!)
10) Aintree Lane : famous for being a continuous road that changes name (Aintree Lane, Wango Lane, School Lane, Aintree Lane) and for running past the racecourse where the Grand National horse race is held.
11) Lime Street : home of the railway station, Empire Theatre and the incredible St. George’s Hall.
12) Brookside Close : they made a TV soap there of the same name. (Okay, it’s a fictional name for a real place, but who’s THAT pedantic?!!)
13) The Strand : see the Three Graces at the Western end - the Royal Liver Building (surmounted by two bronze domes with a Liver Bird, the city’s symbol, on each), the Cunard Building (headquarters of the old Cunard Shipping Company) and the Port of Liverpool Building (former home of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.)
14) Corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street : the Philharmonic Dining Rooms is here. Known locally as the Philharmonic Pub or simply “The Phil” and famous for its ornate Victorian toilets. Honestly!
15) Queensway : Mersey Tunnel Number 1.
16) Kingsway : Mersey Tunnel Number 2. (There’s a railway tunnel as well, but we’re only interested in roads here.)
17) Cathedral Close : Runs along the front of arguably one of the greatest neo-Gothic buildings in the World, the Anglican Cathedral.
18) Mount Pleasant : cathedral number 2, the Roman Catholic one, known as “Paddy’s Wigwam” or “The Pope’s Spaceship”.
19) Selbourne Street : scene of the (in)famous heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Alphonse Cooper which led to the Toxteth riots of July 1981.
20) Anfield Road : on which sits the ground of the greatest football team on the planet, Liverpool F.C. (okay, slightly partisan answer there!)
Strawberry Fields was an orphanage, rather than a street name, just in case you were wondering why it wasn’t mentioned.
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ADDENDUM 1 : For the benefit of “Neil” (above.)
Not sure why you make a point of mentioning a place called “Abby Road.” But just in case you mean “Abbey Road” then simply because the one featured on the cover of the album was in London doesn’t mean that there ISN’T one in Liverpool. Artistic licence is a wonderful thing.
Furthermore, what’s a “duel” carriageway? The road that featured in Steven Spielberg’s 1971 movie of the same name? And John Brodie didn’t “invent” DUAL carriageways, but he did put forward the proposals for the Queens Drive ring road and the East Lancs Road.
And Paul Mc lived on “Forthlin Road” not “Fortlyn Road”. And “Exchange Flags & “Chavasse Park” are places, not roads/streets. And the various spelling and grammatical errors would be too easy to document.
But I’ll not be picky about such things…..
ADDENDUM 2 : For the benefit of the insightful Mr “SaintsRLFC” (below.)
I repeat - Just because the “Abbey Road” featured on the cover of the album was in London doesn’t mean that there ISN’T one in Liverpool. Artistic licence is a wonderful thing.
And there’s no such place as “The Goree.” There’s a road called “Goree” and there used to be “Goree Warehouses” - both named after the island near Senegal. It’s certainly associated heavily with the slave trade, but as for the chaining or non-chaining issue, I’ll let people read up on that one.
Having said all that, what would a rugby fan - particularly of St Helens - know about geography, art, culture, history, reading or indeed manners?
A bunch of sweaty, fat men indulging in homoerotic wrestling in a muddy field anyone? No takers? What a surprise……!
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February 4th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Stanhope street - the albert dock cain brewery a liverpool landmark since 1850.
Albert dock - opened in 1846.
The walk - speke hall dating from 1490.
Penny lane - beatles song.
Lime street - famoue train station.
Slavery street - famous because assossiated with slavery , soon to have name change.
Ranelagh street - adeiphie hotel opened 1826.
Cavern street - cararn bar , opened the 16th jan 1957 initaly was a jazz club, became known as the merseybeat between 1961 and 1963, the beatles made 300 apperances from 1963 to 1973 making it more famous.
Hope street - anglican and metropolitan cathedrals.
Paradise street- maggie may , tick maguire , may ellen, all famous nineteenth centry prostitutes who hung around paradise street and lime street.
Duke street - john bellingham who lived in duke street ,was the man who assassinated the prime minister spencer perceval in 1812.
Bold street - st lucks church built in 1831.
Cunliffe street - just off tithebarn street , is named after foster cunliffe who was a mayor of liverpool.
Peel street - after robert peel an ex prime minister.
Trafalgar dock - named after a famous sea battle .
Moor street - the cockpit yard theatre , one of liverpools first ever theartres built in 1567 ( no longer there ) .
Abercromby square - named after sir ralph abercomby who was killed in 1801.
Ashton street - named after john ashton a well known slave trader.
Campbell street - first called pot house lane , then re named after george campbell , who was a mayor in 1763 - campbell was a slave trader , as well as a sugar merchant.
Clayton square - named after sarah clayton who designed it , in 1745 sarah was the daughter or william clayton a former mp.
Mill road - famous hospital were true scousers were born i was one lol.
hope this helps.
edit, as for steviebyday underneath , nobody said slaves were chained up in liverpool , go back to school and learn your history about liverpool ,
February 6th, 2007 at 9:39 am
For those idiots that mentioned Abbey Road - It was in London!!
The Goree - Where slaves were actually chained inside a building
Castle Street - which ran to where the original castle stood, on the site of what is now the Crown Court
Mathew Street - Home to the Cavern Club
Goodison Road - home to Everton FC
Anfield Road - home to Liverpool FC
Water Street - Originally called Bonk Street, that was where the monks used to disembark their ferries from Birkenhead
Tithebarn Street - One of the first streets in Liverpool, along with Bonk Street
High Street - All town halls are numbered 1 High Street
Lime Street - So named after the Lime Kilns that were there before the station
Rodney Street - Famous for being the ‘Harley st of the north’.
That will do for 10.
I’ll think of more later
February 6th, 2007 at 9:55 am
to saintsrlfc, no slaves were ever chained up anywhere in liverpool. read up onyour slave trade history
February 8th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
just come to liverpool and work thing out for yourself.
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