Islington Market

From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.

Islington Market was not a success. It was too near St. John's, and was not approved by either buyers or sellers. I t was closed for some years, and at the time of the improvements of 1856 it was cleared away altogether. Down to the year 1785 carcely any buildings existed north of the pot-works in Shaw's Browand east of Byrom Street; but during the eleven years from 1785 to 1796 a prodigious advancewas made, and the greater part of the area between Shaw's Brow and Richmond Row, from north to south, and from Byrom Street to St. Anne Street, from east to west, was covered with buildings.

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