From a drawing by G. and C. Pyne about 1830, in the Mayer Papers, Liverpool Free Public Library.
ON November 2, 1825, just forty years after the date of the first Improvement Act of 1785, the Council resolved to apply for an Act for opening and widening Lord Street, Castle Ditch, Pool Lane, and other places, where the houses were old and had become dilapidated, whilst the streets were very narrow and unsuitable for the growing commerce and population of the town. The Act having been obtained, the houses of the Castle Ditch, opposite to St. George’s Church, were demolished, and the building of St. George’s Crescent was commenced in May of 1827. The appearance of the town was greatly improved by the erection of these handsome buildings. These very necessary improvements cost the town the large sum of £170,000. But it was money well spent, and a writer of the period says, “We congratulate the Town and Corporation of Liverpool on the happy issue of their recent exertions for its improvement, which have invested it with a grandeur and magnificence that will enable it to contest the palm of enterprise with the Metropolis itself.”
Bibliography
Muir, Ramsay, et al. Bygone Liverpool. Liverpool: Young, 1913. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 29 September 2022.
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