Maps

Below:
James Chadwick's map of Liverpool of 1725:

(Source: James Chadwick, 'The Mapp of all the Streets, Lanes & Alleys within the Town of Liverpool with the side of the River Mersey layd down by a scale of 80 y[ar]ds in an inch', Liverpool: 1725.
This map was commissioned by the Liverpool Corporation, and as such, is the first 'official' map of Liverpool)

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Below:
Central Liverpool in 1725
(based on James Chadwick's map of Liverpool of 1725)

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Below:
John Gere's plan of Liverpool of 1796:

(Source: John Gere, 'A Plan of the Town of Liverpool, with all the Late Improvements; from an Actual Survey made in the Year 1796', Liverpool: 1796.)

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Below:
Central Liverpool in 1796
(based on John Gere's plan of Liverpool of 1796)

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Below: Liverpool and District
in the early 1840s:

(Source of map: a composite formed from sheets 79, 80, 89 and 90, of the Ordnance Survey 'Old Series'/'One-Inch' maps,
first published 1840 to 1842)

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Below: Central Liverpool in the Early Twentieth Century,
indicating key locations connected with the
cotton trade and market

(Source of original/base map: a detail from 'Bartholomew's Pocket Atlas and Guide to Liverpool and Birkenhead',  Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son, 1928, map section - page 32)

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