Mapping the history of Liverpool
Welcome to the site which lets you explore old maps of Liverpool, find out more about the historic features in your back yard, and take away a souvenir of Liverpool's past!
Old Maps of Liverpool
There are a growing number of interactive maps, reproductions of maps of Merseyside from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. You can zoom in to see great detail, and buy a copy for yourself, or a fellow Liverpool lover!
History Map
The main attraction on Historic Liverpool is the History Map.
This interactive and zoomable map lets you zoom in to your chosen place and see all the places of interest. You'll see hidden bits of history that you might never have noticed, or an old stone monument you may always have wondered about.
There is everything from prehistoric footprints on Formby beach to the courthouse in West Derby village. I'm always adding new things to this map, so jump in!
The Historic Liverpool Blog
The Historic Liverpool blog is where you can find an assortment of posts which don't fall in to the other categories that you'll see around this site. There are book reviews, events, and other little historic details which are there in Liverpool's historic landscape for you to find.
Feel free to comment or ask questions, and I'll see what I can do to help!
Martin
The City and the City and the Liverpool Landscape
This website is all about the historic landscape. It’s about how the landscape shapes what happens in the city, and it’s about the landscapes that we invent by living in it. Just think of the ‘Knowledge Quarter’ and the ‘Cavern Quarter’. Though they’re sickly marketing-gimmick names they do acknowledge some of the character that certain […]
Queensway Tunnel tour – Going underground in Liverpool history, part II
The thing which inspired this website from the outset was the huge number of historic features in Liverpool that we take for granted every day. The Queensway Tunnel is one of them. Thousands of people use it every day to commute between Liverpool and Birkenhead. It’s part of the furniture. And yet it’s easy to […]
The Beatles’ Landmarks in Liverpool, by Daniel K. Longman
A lot of local history revolves around nostalgia: people’s memories of 50 years ago are filled with family, friends, making-do and getting by, as well as reconnecting with old communities on new digital forums (including this one!). Being a mere whippersnapper, I’m not often caught up in this, with a couple of exceptions. I grew […]
A traveller to the Pool
The town grew up around a ‘dark pool’, from which is took its name. The pool flowed into a wide river which would one day be famous across the globe, almost synonymous with the town. The river in turn empties into the Irish Sea, for a long time an important trading route both east-west and […]
50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Modern administrative areas have little meaning when we go back even a short time. But they can make all the difference when it comes to modern heritage work. So that’s why we have this book on finds from Manchester and Merseyside, which span the ages, and covers objects discovered through the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). […]
Liverpool in 1984: first hand history
Ever had that feeling where you wish someone at the time had taken photos? Imagine the Victorian wealth of knowledge we’d have if even more people had hopped on the photography bandwagon! And sometimes, don’t you wish you’d taken more photos? This local history lark, perhaps without me realising it, has become centred around collecting […]