From 1795 until 1921, the Speke estate had belonged to the Watt family – past owners of Speke Hall – and when the family died out, the estate was bought by the Liverpool Corporation in 1928 ...

The childhood home of former Beatle George Harrison has sold at an auction at the Cavern Club for £156,000. Harrison was six years old in 1949 when he moved into 25 Upton Green in Speke ...

It was known as Spec in the Doomsday Book, an old English word meaning ‘brushwood.’ Now Speke is an area synonymous with a thriving airport, a thriving industrial and residential community ...