Everton slum clearances.

[Lorraine]

In perusing one item on this board I came across the above as an explanation for the disappearance of a street. Could anyone direct me to more detailed information about this. Much appreciated...Lorraine Daly.

[simone]

Hi Lorraine

Many of the streets where cleared and many people rellocated, including my great aunts from Aubrey Street, Everton.

This link may explain a bit for you

http://www.losttribeofeverton.co.uk/

The "Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road" reflects on the 50th anniversary of the point of no return being reached around the City Council's decision, in 1960, to send in the bulldozers and wipe out some of the most historic inner city districts of Liverpool.

This led to an exodus of over 125,000 people to estates on the outer limits of Merseyside.
Simone x

[Blue70]

One of the positives to come out of the clearance of this and other inner city areas was the breaking down of some of the sectarian differences between Catholics and Protestants through dispersal and integration.

Blue

[dickiesam]

And don't forget that Hitler did his bit during the WW2 Blitz. The houses and shops etc disappeared while only the street name remained. This is plain to see in the collection of Liverpool photographs recently posted. All those late 1940s, 1950s and even up to the 60s, shots of city areas which were just wide-open spaces with loads of 'car-parking' spaces, where once had been bustling shops and communities. http://www.watcha.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Dickiesam

[ann k]

Thanks Dickiesam, for the link to those lovely old photos of Liverpool,
I have been sitting here mesmerised for ages over them ,will have to try and forward the link to my dad,who at 85 is now one of the silver surfers, he will love them, cheers Ann.

[Lorraine]

Thank you all very much for the replies. I particularly enjoyed the photos, and will purchase that book. Sometimes it is hard to imagine what a city was like before demolition of some areas.

Lorraine.