A mountainous street which terrorised Liverpool paperboys throughout the early 20th century was "so steep even a mountain goat would have baulked".
In its heyday Havelock Street, in Everton, was considered to be Liverpool's steepest street where daredevil children put their nerves to the test on roller skates and home-made go-karts. Known as "Mount Everton", the street needed a sturdy handrail for people who dared attempt the mighty climb to the summit.
Ken Rodgers, who was an ECHO paperboy with a local delivery round through Havelock Street in the 1950s, said: “I can vouch for how testing the ascent was. It was so steep even a mountain goat would have baulked.
