Toxteth Park, Lancashire Poor Law Union

History
On 24 June 1857 the Toxteth Park parishes left West Derby to become an independent Poor Law Parish.

In 1859, the parish built a new workhouse on Smithdown Road in Toxteth. It could accommodate 700 inmates. The building was designed by William Culshaw who was also the architect of the workhouses at Ormskirk and Belmont Road, West Derby.

In 1922 both the Liverpool Poor Law Union and Toxteth Park Union and their workhouses became the responsibility of West Derby.

The workhouse later became Smithdown Road Institution and then Sefton General Hospital. In 2001, a major clearance of the site took place to make way for a supermarket.

Constituent Parishes
Parishes included:

Toxteth Park, Lancashire,St Andrew Aigburth Road, St Andrew Reshaw Street, St Barnabas, St Bede, Toxteth Park St Clement, Lancashire, St Cleopas, St Gabriel, Toxteth Park St James, Lancashire, Toxteth Park St John the Baptist, Lancashire, St Margaret,St Matthew, Toxteth Park St Michael, Lancashire, St Philemon, St Silas, Toxteth Park St Thomas, Lancashire

Records
• Liverpool Record Office and Local History Service, Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW. Relatively few records survive. Holdings include Guardians' minutes (1894-1922); Smithdown Road admission and discharge registers (1860-1869); Creed registers (1882-1954).

Websites
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?ToxtethPark/ToxtethPark.shtml Peter Higginbothams’s Workhuse website contains images and maps of the Union