A Rat Infested St James's Gardens, Hidden Histories Knight Street & Ghost Signs, Liverpool 

The Huskisson Monument in Saint James' Cemetery was put up in 1836. It was designed by J. Foster in a Greek Revival style. It originally held a statue of William Huskisson by John Gibson. Huskisson was a Liberal M.P. for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade. He was run over by a train and killed in 1830, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The monument is an adaptation of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at Athens.

There are 3 tunnels that have been bricked up some where used in 1800s to access the cemetery the first bricked up arch you seen is a tunnel that runs all the way to Duke st/ Rodney st they were closed and bricked up during the construction of the cathedral

Think the arch at the beginning was were the horsed drawn hearses used to drive in for the burials!

A Truly magical place St James’s cemetery

some famous people in there its really interesting place kitty wilkinson the woman who opened the the first wash houses in the slums of Liverpool havent been there for about 20yrs good this thanks for sharing

There is a stone under the church for a load of orphan children that burned in a orphanage fire…quite sad,names and ages…

The other access was for the horse and carriages to get down into the graveyard.. there is a picture inside or in the museum showing it.

Any history of the place ? I'm looking forward to doing a brief history of St James garden this year. Covering the basic history of the place that is freely available online. Looking forward to see if you find "Little Grace" Also Kitty Wilkinsons grave is extremely important to Liverpool.

Video @30:01 that was the lines in & out off Liverpool central high level lines (aka the Cheshire Lines Committee Railway)(to Hunts Cross and Manchester Via Warrington Central)

Another fascinating video George, you and Eric at 6.45 mins, that was funny. Hope Eric has beaten the cancer. Thanks guys

Did you Have a drink from the spring ? I did a few years ago and I’m still here 😂😂😂😂

nice one lads love these type of videos keep em coming

Should do an update on the fairy glen in Sefton park for us, I complained to the council as that was overrun with rats and shopping trolleys. Stagnant water that had rats swimming in it, and the waterfalls were turned off and had brown sludge running down the wall! It was flamming awful! Wonder if they’ve done anything with it

I love all these hidden places you and Eric find George, makes me wonder what you will discover next! Keep up the good work guys, see you on the next one!

Old cemeteries are often neglected and bad decisions made such as landscaping to try to improve appearance rather than preservation of heritage. The history section of the St James Cemetery website says this about its decline:- "The dangerous nature of the site and its frequentation by drug users and incidence of other unfavourable activities finally led to action being taken by the Corporation in the 1960s. The cost of maintenance of the site as it remained was considered too great, and the memorials were cleared. The majority of gravestones were stacked at the southern end of the site above the pit burials. These were covered in earth resulting in an artificial slope. Others were lined along the sides of the site and pedestrian tunnel, with only a few of the larger monuments remaining in place. The atmosphere of the former cemetery was destroyed."

My Nan & my mum were both born in 39 Knight Street. My Nan lived there for 40 years. I think her mum lived there for over 70 years.

most Rats I've ever seen in Liverpool is on Seel street go down there early on a Sunday morning! Swarms of them everywhere

😂😂... Another excellent video. Thank you. Totally interesting.

Nice video George thanks for sharing

I had no idea this place even existed thanks yet again for a future day out with the Mrs 👍

Boss vid this…had a good nose about there in the summer and drank from the spring…still alive as well haha

Hi George and Eric not been around the St James garden's for a long time,nice to see again,you would think the council would clean the area up at the back of Rapid no wonder we have so meny rats running around, l was walking through the Otterspool festival part l never seen so meny rats running around and this was during daylight great video thanks for sharing 👍

Boss that lad. Where we grew up. Lived over the road from St James

Keep up the content mate, great channel Does eric have a channel?

the bricked up archways are cater cooms thay go back a fere distansunderground and had wooden doors on them back in the 60s

wen we were kids in the 60s and 70s we had a big rope swing from the tree in there by hope street end

6:48 There xenophobic George. It's dangerous there. But it's gorgeous George. It's not all bizarre.

there were 1000s of plage victims berryd there thay were throun over into the grave yard were the rats were at the dead end were you turnd back

Only natural spring left in Liverpool George.

Capt Charles webb has a sad story🙊

Them bricked up archways are catacombs

You could have a terrible tumble from a higher point. Have your wits about you on that holy ground.

Give Joe Owens a voice RU-vid

🤪🤣🤪🤣🤪 I'm laughing my head off here, thanks George 👍🏻 mum I've made it, I was mention in a top scouse youtubers channel 👍🏻👌🏻👍🏻😃😉