Roscommon Street

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

Roscommon Street was formed about the end of the last century by Mr. Joshua Rose, merchant, who resided in a noble mansion hard by, to which I shall shortly refer. He was a man of considerable enterprise. Possessing large tracts of land in the outskirts of the town, he laid out various streets, and assisted materially in the direction which the town took at that time. Rose Place and Rose Hill took their designations from him. In this immediate neighbourhood his fancy ran upon the classic poets- Great Homer, Virgil, Dryden, Juvenal, had their place in the Walhalla of his street nomenclature; and close to his own residence he admitted the Earl of Roscommon into the circle of his worthies. Though formed by Mr. Joshua Rose, Roscommon Street owed its development to Mr. Thomas Wiatt, a solicitor in Liverpool, who built a number of commodious houses on the north side, with neat gardens in front. The uppermost house, which had attached to it a beautiful pleasureground and orchard, was long occupied by his widow. At the lower end, on the south side, several handsome houses were built before 1830 by Mr. John Davies. In this half-suburban condition the street long remained. About 1850 it fell into the hands of the builders, who speedily filled the interspaces with rows of houses, and left it in its present condition.

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