EPW037736 ENGLAND (1932). The Diamond Match Works, Litherland, 1932

Where I lived until 1960

My Mum was born in Lawler Street one of 12 and her Mum's two sisters and their families also lived there.

Liverpool Overhead Railway engine shed Seaforth.

Caradock Public house.

Pawn shop, destroyed by an incendiary bomb in May 1941.

Catherine Hotel (Salt Box)

Sullivan's Laundry, Akenside Street, Bootle

Mason's Bread Shop & Bakery

The factory was bombed and extensively damaged in the May Blitz on Merseyside in 1941 and never re-opened as a match-factory. Litherland Urban District Council built social housing flats on the site in the early 1950s.

Note the stockpile of timber used in the production of matches.

The first mission hall to be built, before the large extension was constructed.

Linacre Methodist Mission Hall Linacre Road Known locally as 'Walker's Mission'

Longfield Road

Langton Road

Railway Tunnel leading through to Langton Road

Lily Road

Hartwell Street

Bowden Street

Hinton Street

Lawler Street

Hands Street

Violet Road

The 'Back Sackey' LOcal name given to area behind Lawler and Catherine Streets

Roade Street

9?

Blisworth St

Towcester St