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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Fascinating video of Liverpool's main shopping streets full of traffic before pedestrianisation in 1970s

Fascinating footage has been unearthed of one of Liverpool's main shopping streets 10-years before it was pedestrianised.

Home to the likes of Primark, TK Maxx, and M&S, Church Street remains one the of the busiest shopping locations in Liverpool city centre. The street takes its name from the old St Peter's Church which was demolished in 1922 but stood where the entrance to Liverpool One is now.

Church Street has seen some of the most well-loved, and well-missed, retailers come and go in its long history, including Littlewoods, Woolworths and George Henry Lee. Before work on the street's pedestrianisation began in March 1974, seeing cars and buses alongside the hustle and bustle of shoppers was part of day-to-day life.

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