ABSTRACT
In his historical account Memorials of Liverpool (1871), Sir James A. Picton offers us an evocative account of the evolution of Everton. Picton describes how the movement of a wealthy Liverpool merchant class constructing luxurious mansions in the district first disturbed the rural environment of ‘barren sandstone ridge, with its waste of gorse and heather’. A relatively self-contained village community of fewer than 500 in 1801, with few strong social or economic links with the burgeoning town of Liverpool to its west, Everton's settlement by Liverpool merchant families brought the district within the orbit of influence of Liverpool.
