Box of Tricks

You're welcome, but I have been thinking about this, and I think that house prices is not the thing to search for. (It apparently matters enough in Britain that there are tons of highly-optimised sites just waiting to snatch you from Google.)

Better words to search on are things like - and I tried these and they looked handy - "nice parts of Liverpool", "posh parts of Liverpool", "posh areas of Liverpool". There's a bunch of people looking to move back and saying "it's all changed", and some of them mention what it used to be like.

Also bear in mind that in 1981 there were riots in Liverpool! ( - along with other bits of the UK) Don't put the boys in the middle of Toxteth if you are doing 1981 or later :) When a friend went to university a few years later, she found that Endsleigh, the student insurers, didn't even include the L8 postcode on their list of "this postcode area is this band of insurance" - you had to write to them with the exact street to find out what you'd be paying.

More seriously, poking around for retrospectives on the riots will get you lots about the more deprived areas. If you're lucky, they'll contrast them with the posh bits and give a bit of context.

Or just wait for a Liverpudlian to show up, obviously :)