We all have our favourite streets for shopping, eating out, or meeting friends for a drink in town.
However, it's not often we stop to think about how those streets got their names.
When you start to scratch away at the stories behind the street names, you uncover part of Liverpool's fascinating urban history - and in the process - start to learn more about how this unique city came to be.
Whether it's the commemoration of events, honouring prominent figures of the past, or a reminder of long-vanished landmarks and industries, the names are revealing clues to our history.
Here are just a few of the stories behind the city centre's most popular streets.
Paradise Street
Now a central hub of the Liverpool One shopping centre, Paradise street was originally known as Common Shore.
Sometime in the 1730s, the name was changed to Paradise Street as Common Shore was said to have "unsavoury" associations
At one time it was described as "an evil-smelling swamp" and had probably become the common sewer.
Thomas Steers, the engineer who built the first Liverpool Dock, owned land on Common Shore which he named Paradise Street after the street of that name in Rotherhithe, London, where he once lived.
Clarence Street
The Duke of Clarence – who became King William IV – was honoured in recognition of his campaigning against the abolition of slavery.
Widely travelled, he spent a lot of time in the House of Lords where he was a controversial speaker.
He visited Liverpool in 1790 when Clarence Street was being laid and the naming was a measure of his popularity here.
Berry Street
When it comes to Liverpool city centre, Berry Street stands out with the iconic St Luke's Church on its corner.
A hub for shoppers, diners and clubbers, it's named after Henry Berry, Liverpool's second dock engineer, who lived in a house on the north-east corner of Duke Street.
Clayton Square
One of the few places to be named after a woman. Sarah Clayton became a captain of industry in the mid-18th century, taking over her merchant father Alderman William Clayton's business with her mother after his death, when it was unheard of for women to do so.
She was known as a formidable businesswoman and merged the family coal business with her brother-in-law's, meaning she presided over a considerable area of mines situated near to the Sankey Canal and became one of the most important coal dealers in Liverpool.
In 1752 she mapped out a landmark in her family name - Clayton Square - and occupied the largest house in the square.
Mathew Street
The iconic street in Liverpool city centre, the home of the Cavern Club, is named after former agricultural landowner Mathew Pluckington.
When Liverpool emerged as a major shipping centre in the 1700s, Mr Pluckington owned a dirt track that linked North John Street and Stanley Street.
Lime Street
One of Liverpool's main thoroughfares was originally known as Limekiln Lane. Where the railway station is now, back in the 18th century there were lime kilns used to produce quicklime.
They had to be taken down when doctors from the Infirmary across the street complained that fumes being emitted were detrimental to their patients.
The kilns were moved, but the name stuck and was given to the railway station built on the road in 1851.
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Bold Street
One of the most diverse places for shopping, cafes and restaurants in the city, in normal times Bold Street is always bustling with life.
Named after Jonas Bold, who leased land from the Corporation on which St Luke's Church and a ropery owned by James and Jonathon Brookes were built.
Lord Street
The busy shopping street now in Liverpool One took its title from Lord Molyneux of the family which became Earls of Sefton.
Where Lord Street joins modern Paradise Street a bridge was built over the Pool in 1672 (where the city derives its name).
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Church Street
A city centre street everyone in Liverpool has walked down, Church Street, is a hub for shoppers and crazy performers congregating in the centre.
It takes its name from St Peter’s church which once stood where the entrance to Liverpool ONE is now.
And it wasn’t just any church either, it was actually Liverpool’s Anglican pro-cathedral, a church that serves as a temporary cathedral while the true one is being built.
The church was opened in 1704, but became the seat of the Bishop in 1880 when the Bishopric of Liverpool was created by Queen Victoria at the same time that that town was granted city status
Exchange Flags
This was the name given to the area by the Town Hall on which, until commodity exchanges were built, merchants gathered to transact their business.
Dale Street
Dale Street is one of the original seven streets that turned into a mega-city during a period of seemingly boundless growth fuelled by our port.
So called because it led to the dale through which flowed the stream from Moss Lake to the Pool of Liverpool.
