Toxteth

• Outer Liverpool nearby to river Mersey
• Fishing villages on mersey in 11th century and used for hunting land in 13th century due to undulating hills
• West coast made it ideal for 18th century slave trade and growing port brought migration and growth and industrialisation
• Large georgian ( GeorgIan quarter) and grand Victorian houses due to lucrative trade which became middle class commuter area
• Industrialisation in 1860 onwards led to cheap terraced housing for workers in docks and factories where disease was rife and middle class left for urban fringe
• 78% white with large immigration due to port and commonwealth as well as Irish due to potato famine
• Many religions creating churches Synagogues and mosques
• 37% children in poverty (average is 16%
• 23% own their own house (average is 63%)
• 41% passed 5 gcses (Average of 61%)
• Shifting respurces of port poorly positioned for eu trade, deindustrialisarion and container ships
• Workers lost jobs in port creating unemplounmet and riots
• Docks rebranded for tourism including tate Liverpool and eu investment for new sectors in liverpools economy such as low carbon sector in Liverpool bay
• Major port in 18th century with stream used for agriculture and mills in 16th century