The street was named for lime kilns owned by William Harvey, a local businessman. When the street was laid out in 1790 it was outside the city limits, but by 1804 the lime kilns were causing proble...

That was important because you had an awful lot of out of town crews paying off in Liverpool and they would always go and drink in the Legs of Man before catching their trains home from Lime S...

There was an old lady who used to actually run the café and then sold it to this gentleman who must have been a boss or something from the Docks because he used to come work, he bought the caf...

They used to supply all the oils lamps. An oil lamp was very very important, to the wicks. You see, what they would do is they’d put a little small oil lamp in what they called a boat compass....

Colin: "We’d just go in there mooching around, walking around because it was like a labyrinth. As I say we used to climb over and we’d spend a couple of hours there mooching around, walking al...

This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA RR1087/20)

Narrator: "On the way up from the Pier Head one passes one of the worst blitzed areas in the city centre, here in the old days were many well known shops, including Frisbee Dykes, a name that ...

Between 1964 and 1969 the precincts started to get built, do you know the tower? I watched that tower going up every day, the beacon here. I watched it going up every single day, it was amazin...

I remember St John's being built, every time I came to Liverpool it had gone up a few more feet until eventually the restaurant was built on top. And I remember going to the restaurant quite a...

This is a silent video Courtesy of North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University (NWFA 4962 and RR1087/20)