The Fall, Rise and Fall Again of Hornby Street, Liverpool
Hornby Street ran from Vauxhall Road to Scotland Road. In 1903 Liverpool Corporation cleared 534 homes in the area, housing a population of 2431.
‘The insanitary houses were of the back to back type, situated in narrow and ill-ventilated courts, each court containing from ten to twelve houses. The sanitary arrangements were very defective, in many cases one convenience being used by the occupants of five or six houses.’
A typical court off Hornby Street
The Council built 23 blocks - 445 dwellings in total for 2476 people - to rehouse the displaced population.
Plan of new scheme
Architectural drawing of new scheme
One of the new blocks, c. 1905
Hornby Street
Hornby Street 1967
The area had fallen on hard times again by the late twentieth century and has since disappeared off the map.
