Entrance to cellar dwellings, about 1930
This section of the former City Lives gallery looked at the houses that have been home to Liverpool people since 1800, from rich merchants with large homes on Rodney Street to poorer families living in crowded slums.
The pioneering public housing programmes of the early 20th century were an important step forward for the city. These included Wavertree Garden Suburb, Eldon Street tenements and Bevington Housing scheme.
Today inner city living is becoming increasingly popular, with several new developments and conversions springing up over Liverpool.
Highlights of the former gallery included:
Shops, markets, stores, cafés and pubs have been at the very centre of city life for hundreds of years. They were places people could meet and socialise.
A child entertaining in a Liverpool pub, about 1895