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Report - The Welsh Streets, Part Deux (Liverpool, 2018)

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urbanchemist

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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 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 report covered about 50 houses in the green rectangle https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/the-welsh-streets-liverpool-nov-2017.110644/.

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I wasn’t initially planning on revisiting these streets, but one problem with the first attempt was that I started a bit late and many houses were already renovated or stripped back to the brick. So at the beginning of 2018 I started dropping by about once a month as the next streets opened up, aiming to have a proper look before the builders moved in. This report covers the 66 houses in the red rectangle.

There isn’t a huge amount to see - all the fittings and fixtures except for some light fittings were removed about a decade ago before the houses were tinned up - but its still quite interesting to observe what ten years of neglect does to the decor. As in the first report there isn’t space to include explicit wallpaper shots - indeed I now seem to have amassed an extensive under-the-counter collection of wallpaper porn - but there’s plenty of the stuff on show in the pics below.

Photos start on the ground floor then go upstairs and this sequence is repeated three times.

The south side of Powis Street, still painted brown from being used as a film set. These houses are slightly plainer than those further north, without the bay windows.

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No fire inserts remain.

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Back kitchens.

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Back bathrooms.

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The back alley between Powis and Madryn after demolition of the ‘outriggers’ (rear extension containing the kitchen, bathroom and small upstairs bedroom) and a photo from the same place before demolition.

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Ringo’s Geburthaus in Madryn Street while Paul looks on from a nearby pub. At one stage there was a proposal to rebuild Ringo’s house in a museum, but as the man himself pointed out it then wouldn’t be his birthplace (he actually grew up and learned to play the drums just over the road in Admiral Grove).

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Inside its actually very dull.

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This house used to be a regular stop on Beatles tours so maybe it will be turned into a visitor attraction or just acquire a plaque. Moving on.

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urbanchemist

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continued.

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A disappointing aspect was how little old literature is left, despite some half-hearted rummaging under floorboards - I think the earliest things I found were some 1960s divorce papers. Mostly its just quite recent newspapers.

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Looking down Kinmel Street with houses on the left (south side) still sealed. Below the back alley between Madryn and Kinmel, yet to be cleared.

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The is a bit of variation in the two-up two-down layout and some houses also have upstairs bathrooms. A few houses were also rebuilt, probably in the 50s, to a different design.

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So, another ramble through Liverpool interiors in rather a lot of pictures - but I suppose someone should record this stuff.
 

slayaaaa

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That's fantastic, very well written and the pictures are great. Probably one of very few opportunities to document victorian terraced housing especially with the fittings and the wallpaper! I missed your previous report somehow but also very good! Really enjoyed reading through.
 
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