Not allowed out again, so here’s a final helping of empty Victorian terraces from a while ago.
For those who haven’t heard of Liverpool’s “Welsh Streets” in Toxteth - which will be most people - I’ll plagiarise myself:
“.. a series of Victorian terraces, built in the 1870’s to house Welsh construction workers. By the early 2000’s many of the properties had deteriorated, and the original plan was to demolish the lot and build new housing.
However not everyone was happy and after much debate it was eventually decided to renovate the old houses, keeping most of the brickwork but installing modern heating and insulation etc.”
The first two reports covered over 100 of the little houses, with the drawback, particularly for the first report, that builders had already started to strip any remaining decor and knock down walls.
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I got the timing better this time, arriving shortly after the final row of 15 houses on Kinmel Street had been opened up.
So what’s inside? As before, not a lot, mainly what about 10 years of neglect does to the interiors.
Pictures are in a fairly random order.
I never found any old literature, mostly quite recent stuff.
The paper below was from early 1981, just before the Toxteth riots started over the road in Granby.
As mentioned above, there was considerable argument about renovating these streets, with a strong ‘demolish’ faction slapping up posters.
A recent view of Kinmel Street, taken from about the same place as the first picture above.
About half the houses are now occupied, with the rest still being finished.
The spruced up houses have proved very popular and having looked round one of the show homes I can see why.
Although a bit communal and overlooked for my taste, there’s something about the human scale, together with wide streets and lack of through-traffic which has made renovation the right option for this particular location.
For those who haven’t heard of Liverpool’s “Welsh Streets” in Toxteth - which will be most people - I’ll plagiarise myself:
“.. a series of Victorian terraces, built in the 1870’s to house Welsh construction workers. By the early 2000’s many of the properties had deteriorated, and the original plan was to demolish the lot and build new housing.
However not everyone was happy and after much debate it was eventually decided to renovate the old houses, keeping most of the brickwork but installing modern heating and insulation etc.”
The first two reports covered over 100 of the little houses, with the drawback, particularly for the first report, that builders had already started to strip any remaining decor and knock down walls.
Report - - The Welsh Streets (Liverpool, Nov, 2017) | Residential Sites
I’ll skip the historical introduction since there is a lot of information about this site online - see also urbexcactus’s recent post on here. But just to put things in context, the ‘Welsh Streets’ are a block of mostly Victorian terraces, built in the 1870s near Princes Park in Toxteth. Some of...
Report - - The Welsh Streets, Part Deux (Liverpool, 2018) | Residential Sites
For a concise overview of the history see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Streets,_Liverpool. Briefly, the Welsh Streets are a series of Victorian terraces, built in the 1870’s to house Welsh construction workers. By the early 2000’s many of the properties had deteriorated, and the original...
I got the timing better this time, arriving shortly after the final row of 15 houses on Kinmel Street had been opened up.
So what’s inside? As before, not a lot, mainly what about 10 years of neglect does to the interiors.
Pictures are in a fairly random order.
I never found any old literature, mostly quite recent stuff.
The paper below was from early 1981, just before the Toxteth riots started over the road in Granby.
As mentioned above, there was considerable argument about renovating these streets, with a strong ‘demolish’ faction slapping up posters.
A recent view of Kinmel Street, taken from about the same place as the first picture above.
About half the houses are now occupied, with the rest still being finished.
The spruced up houses have proved very popular and having looked round one of the show homes I can see why.
Although a bit communal and overlooked for my taste, there’s something about the human scale, together with wide streets and lack of through-traffic which has made renovation the right option for this particular location.
