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12 unusual facts about Toxteth


1981 England riots

Brixton (London), Toxteth (Liverpool) and Chapeltown (Leeds) were originally built as affluent areas of the city, however the relocation of industry, poor connections and the influx of migrant workers had led to a downfall in their fortunes and the large Victorian terraces and villas were divided up into low rent bed sits.

Alfred James Ewart

Ewart was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, second son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha née Williams.

Alois Hitler, Jr.

On the 1911 census of the United Kingdom, Alois is using the name Anton Hitler, working as a waiter at the Jewish-run Lyons cafe in Toxteth Park.

City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club

The City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club is a gymnastics facility in Toxteth, Liverpool.

Edward Kennion

His grandfather John Kennion was for many years minister of the Unitarian Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

John Bramley-Moore

He died at Brighton on 19 November 1886, aged 86, and was buried at St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1929

The Liverpool East Toxteth by-election, 1929 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool East Toxteth on 19 March 1929.

Naive John

The relationship between the difficulty facing ordinary human beings making moral choices when they have to face hostile environmental factors is portrayed in Toxteth Cherub.

Olly Martins

Martins spent eight years working for Victim Support in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, first as a volunteer while at University and then as a service co-ordinator.

PS Lelia

Lelia was built by William C Miller & Company of Toxteth as one of a trio of blockade running sister ships ordered for the Anglo-Confederate concern, William G. Crenshaw & Company.

Richard Mather

He studied at Winwick grammar school, of which he was appointed a master in his fifteenth year, and left it in 1612 to become master of a newly established school at Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

Thomas Shelmerdine

Toxteth Library, in Windsor Street, a balanced English Renaissance style building, was set out by him in 1902.


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Les Afful

He joined Exeter City as a trainee after playing for a Merseyside youth team in Toxteth, after being brought to Exeter for a friendly by former Birmingham City and Liverpool player Howard Gayle.

Sir Richard Durning Holt, 1st Baronet

Holt was born at Toxteth Park, Lancashire, the son of Robert Durning Holt, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, a cotton broker, by his wife Lawrencina Potter, daughter of Richard Potter.

Toxteth Park, Glebe

In 1829 George commissioned the famous architect, John Verge, to build Toxteth House on 96 acres that he had acquired in Glebe.