Children's hospital, Myrtle Street, about 1910
Services like health care and schooling have contributed to the welfare of local communities.
Liverpool has been at the forefront of developments in public health for the past three centuries. Through models, instruments, photographs and personal testimony this part of the former City Lives gallery highlighted the work done to care for local people.
From 1870 school attendance was compulsory and free state education became available through Board Schools. Previously pupils had to pay for their education, although charity and church schools provided some free education. This section of the former City Lives gallery explored some of these schools including the pioneering School for the Blind and Blackburne House, one of the first girl's schools in the country.
Highlights of this section of the former City Lives gallery included:
School children being evacuated in 1939