Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
from Part One - THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In which first-hand experience of life in the Granby Ward in Toxteth focuses my attention on the practicalities of community development. My commitment to the principle of universal social responsibility is constantly refreshed by my involvement in local affairs as an elected member.
At first sight, when my husband and I went canvassing in the run-up to the 1963 local elections, Granby looked agreeable enough, like a newly retired gent with years of good service behind him but a period of useful life still to come. The streets were wide and handsome, in the Liverpool merchant tradition. Many were tree-lined, though, for lack of pruning, lights burned all day in some houses. Victorian residences lined the major thoroughfares which were cut across by streets of smaller houses, each a replica in miniature of its grander neighbours. It still looked what it had originally been intended to be when it was rushed up in 1868 and 1869: an essentially respectable neighbourhood for those whose aim in life was to lever themselves up out of the down-town slums. True, at the Lodge Lane end, there was an intrusion of later bye-law housing, close-packed into straight street after straight street, but even there a code of respectability was rigidly enforced. There were more churches to the half-mile of Princes Avenue than would accommodate the entire population had they chosen to attend. For the sake of respectability, no factories, workshops, or public houses were permitted.
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- The Disinherited SocietyA Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century, pp. 105 - 118Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1996