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, was created as a street in 1790. Its most famous feature is Lime Street railway station. It is part of the William Brown Street
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History

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 problems at a nearby infirmary. The doctors complained about the smell, and so the kilns were moved away, but the street name remained unchanged.BBC Liverpool Lime Street history
/ref> With the arrival of the railway line in 1836, the street moved from a marginal to a central location in the city, a position that confirmed by the creation of St George's Hall, on the side of the street opposite the railway station, in 1854.
Wellington's Column Wellington's Column, or the Waterloo Memorial, is a monument to the Duke of Wellington standing on the corner of William Brown Street and Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for Englan ...
, a monument to the
Duke of Wellington Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they ar ...
was built to mark one end of the street, at the corner with William Brown Street. In 1871 the North Western Hotel opened and is now operated by Radisson. The modern street is part of the A5038 road. The Lime Street name ends at the crossroads marked by the Adelphi Hotel, though, as Renshaw Street, the road continues directly uphill to St Luke's Church. The Futurist Cinema operated on Lime Street from 1912, until the cinema's closure in 1982. The building was demolished in 2016. The Empire Theatre opened on Lime Street in 1925, and was the second theatre to be built on the site. The first theatre had opened in 1866, and was demolished in 1924. The theatre has the largest two-tier auditorium in Britain. In 1970, the Churchill Way Flyovers were opened, linking Lime Street to
Dale Street Dale Street is a thoroughfare in Liverpool city centre, England. The street was one of the original seven streets that made up the medieval borough founded by King John in 1207, together with Castle Street, Old Hall Street, Chapel Street, ...
and
Tithebarn Street Tithebarn Street is a road in Liverpool, England. Situated in the city centre, it runs between Chapel Street and the junction of Great Crosshall Street and Vauxhall Road is part of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter. History The street was one of ...
. Built as part of an inner-city ring road project that was never fully completed, the flyovers were demolished in 2019 having been deemed unsafe.


Reference to the street

The street is mentioned as the favourite haunt of prostitute " Maggie May" in the Liverpool
folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...
of that name, most famously recorded by
the Beatles The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...
on the album '' Let It Be''. The name has been used in many novels and plays, including
Alun Owen Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and actor, predominantly in television. However, he is best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature f ...
's '' No Trams to Lime Street'' and Helen Forrester's autobiographical ''Lime Street at Two''. In 2012 the farce ''A Nightmare on Lime Street'' was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, starring David Gest as Frankenstein's monster, being recreated in the bowels of Lime Street railway station.Alfred Hickling, "A Nightmare on Lime Street – review Royal Court, Liverpool", ''The Guardian'', Thursday 29 November 2012
/ref> The 2015 song ''Lime St.'' by Welsh rock bank
Neck Deep Neck Deep are a Welsh pop-punk band formed in Wrexham in 2012. They released a pair of EPs, ''Rain in July'' (2012) and '' A History of Bad Decisions'' (2013), before signing with Hopeless in August 2013. Neck Deep was founded after vocalist ...
references Lime Street in Liverpool.


Gallery

File:Lime street july 2010.jpg, Lime Street railway station in 2010 File:Wellington Column.jpg, Wellington's column, marking the end of the street. File:Liverpool Equestrian.jpg, Equestrian statue of Prince Albert, by Thomas Thornycroft File:Liverpool Pals inspection, 1915.jpg, Inspection of the Liverpool Pals regiment on Lime Street by Lord Kitchener in 1915 File:Lime Street from William Brown Street. Liverpool - geograph.org.uk - 159021.jpg, Lime Street viewed from William Brown Street


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