Granby Four Streets is an area in Toxteth, less than 3 km from Liverpool city centre (see Figure 1). There are fewer than 200 houses, but what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in personality. Most of the houses were built in the 1870s and are a mixture of desirable mansions, once home to wealthy merchants, and smaller terraces, home to the less well-off.
During the 1970s, Toxteth’s population fell by more than a third and nearly 40% of those left behind were jobless. Soaring unemployment and simmering racial tensions boiled over in 1981 when the Toxteth Riots erupted, and at least 70 buildings were torched during the unrest leaving shops and houses empty and shuttered.
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