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Home of Liverpool John Lennon Airport Speke lies on the southern fringes of the city. The old Art Deco airport terminal, once packed with screaming Beatles fans welcoming home their...
Speke. Speke (/ ˈspiːk /) is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is eight miles (thirteen kilometres) southeast of the city centre. Located near the widest part of the River Mersey, it is bordered by the suburbs of Garston and Hunts Cross, and nearby to Halewood, Hale Village, and Widnes.
Speke is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is eight miles southeast of the city centre. Located near the widest part of the River Mersey, it is bordered by the suburbs of Garston and Hunts Cross, and nearby to Halewood, Hale Village, and Widnes. Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Speke is district in Liverpool area. This page brings you detailed map of this part of Liverpool and some basic information that can be useful for your visit. Note that Speke district is also part of Google streetview maps so you can browse to our Speke streetview map to see the place virtually.
- The Landscape
- Expansion – The Speke Estate and Industry
- Industry
- Later History
- Transport – The Airport
In 1066 Speke formed part of one of Uctred’s manors (along with West Derby and Huyton), and when the Lancashire forest was formed, it became part of the forest fee (Farrer & Brownbill, 1904). Speke occupies an area in the far south of Liverpool. This is flat land with a long river frontage (at the widest point on the Mersey), and was known for year...
In the 20th century Speke was one of several areas of outlying Liverpool which were the focus of post-war reconstruction and expansion (among the others were Knowsley and Skelmersdale). Kirkby, Halewoodand Speke were the three largest out-of-town council estates in the country. Unfortunately, there remained a gap between, one the one hand, the hous...
It was always intended for Speke’s housing and industry to grow hand-in-hand. Industrial estates took advantage of the flat land and growing population from the 1950s onwards. As has been mentioned, post-war development was concentrated on out-of-town areas rather than the inner city. The 1936 Liverpool Corporation Act allowed the city to buy and s...
The Speke Estate was an ambitious undertaking. Its architect hoped to build a self-sufficient town full of people with a range of backgrounds and incomes. Industry would go hand-in-hand with the residential growth, and people would live on the doorstep of their workplace. But the reality was different: house building was too slow for industry’s nee...
1928: Airport site bought from Miss Adelaide Watt 1930-3: airport construction 1933: Speke Airport opened. By WWII it was the second busiest in the UK. Air Force kept control after war meaning it lost out to Manchester in 1950s. 1935-40: Edward Bloomfield’s building built Became RAF Speke until 1961.(Book) Back to top
Dec 1, 2021 · One of the two pubs that many generations of Speke-ites will have frequented still trading today. This unique pub on Eastern Avenue is famed for its different areas being decked out in either...
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