24/08/2026
‘Two weeks mate and it’ll be gone’ said the demolition crew earlier today.
I first visited 1 Winter Street, off Low Hill in Liverpool some years ago. It had been in the Liverpool Echo following a fire. The house was pretty unremarkable, what was remarkable was that it was still standing after everything else around it had been demolished.
The building wasn’t listed (which could have explained its continued existence) I found it difficult to find any information about the house - so I chatted to a number of local people. People believed that the house had been a ‘gift’ or had some sort of ‘covenant’ attached to it - hence the reason it had never been demolished.
Apparently a man had lived there in recent times and he would park a hearse outside the property.
An old lady told me that someone had been murdered in the house - a woman had killed her husband - she had cut his throat.I couldn’t find any record of such a murder and neither could a friend of mine who was very interested in old crime and murder tales.
I visited the house again and it had become a magnet for anti social behaviour. It was basically open to the elements and it was possible to go inside (it was completely empty)
I made a video and posted it on my page, someone who watched it messaged me to say ‘There is something bad about that house, please don’t go back there.’
I posted this earlier today and another page A Sense of Scouse posted on here - there had been a murder in the house. On the 13th January 1932, a man, Ivor Derrick, slashed and stabbed his wife Beatrice to death in the upper floor of the house (which was being used as a flat) The couple and their son were Welsh and Ivor Derrick was said to be in a state of despair after failing to find work. He slashed himself after the attack but survived. When the old lady told me about a mans throat being slashed- that must have been a real but later confused memory passed down to her.
Ivor Derrick was later detained indefinitely.
The forlorn house on Winter Street, with its dark and unspeakable past, will soon be gone forever.
Thank you. A Sense of Scouse. Check this page out for yourself.
The house on Winter Street, Liverpool.
