Can you decipher this street?

[FredaFox]

Hello
I'm slowly piecing together my mums family tree and struggling to decipher some if the writing in the census documents

Can anybody tell what this street is in Liverpool?

Thank you

Assuming it’s Gaerwen Street (not Drive), it was off Farnworth Street, between Molyneux Road and Boaler Street. It’s now the Butler Crescent estate. I’m trying to find out when the are was redeveloped.

The other side of Molyneux Road is the “Beatles” estate!

Thanks so much, I'm enjoying looking into all this but wow the census handwriting 😂
I'm sure over time I'll be a bit more fine tuned to it
Doesn't help our family left Liverpool so I don't know the Liverpool area that well
Tempted to take a trip

Visiting the area for its history can be fun but there’s not a lot left!

The rough square of Farnworth Street, Boaler Street, Tudor Street and Molyneux Road are still there. Butler Street was next along from Tudor Street, parallel to Farnworth Street, then Sterne, Empire, Goldsmith and Bourne Streets, and Gaerwen Street ran parallel to Molyneux Road, joining Farnworth and Butler Streets. That whole middle section was redeveloped probably in the 1960s, most of it is now the Butler Crescent estate.

There’s a Facebook page of old photos of Liverpool, there are some photos of those streets and comments from people who grew up there, and photos on other websites, eg Lost Tribe of Everton. Google Gaerwen Street history?

I’ve done a lot of research on my family and transcribed records are riddled with mistakes where the transcriber hasn’t been able to make out what the handwritten script actually said! My first job 50 years ago involved searching ancient leather-bound ledgers in a life assurance company’s vaults. I love them!

Census handwriting varies enormously. It's definitely Dr[ive] - the capital D matches the D at the start of Derby. Enumerators did make mistakes though, Drive, Street, Road, meh, who cares.

One of the best resources out there for old maps is National Library Scotland maps - covers most of the UK - and if you click on the "side by side" viewer you can look at a Victorian map beside a current day map and and they both move around as you drag the map. Brilliant. https://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Especially for cities like Glasgow/Liverpool which have been extensively developed since WW2 and streets which once were there have been demolished. I use it a lot for Glasgow, lots of streets disappeared when they built a motorway right through the city centre.

It's not 'Dr' it's 'St'.