Planning help needed

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

I'm currently in planning for my big bang story and I have a couple of questions I need answers to, but don't know how to find these answers. I'm hoping the wonderful people here can help me. Even just a place to start looking would be appreciated. My google-fu is not so fabulous.

1. If Doyle's family background was on the 'shady' side (no one's ever been arrested, but a lot of their business has been somewhat questionable - just petty stuff, though) would he have been allowed to join the police? Doyle himself was never involved in any quasi-wrongdoing.

2. Does anyone know where the wealthy area of Liverpool is? I've been trying to find information on Liverpool but it's mostly just general stuff.

Comments

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Central Liverpool doesn't really do wealthy - it's mostly shops and offices, docks, university, poorish areas, etc. The city isn't that big. The wealthier people would live outside the city in e.g. Huyton,maybe Sefton,(which has nice houses round Sefton Park but is now a bit run-down, towards Bootle, and across the river in 'The Wirral' areas such as Birkenhead and Hoylake. There's a toll tunnel under the Mersey to the Wirral and it has a lot of traffic problems from all the big cars coming to and from the city at rush hour.I don't think this has changed much from when Bodie would have been young though I only got to know Liverpool at all in the late sixties/early seventies and then only through friends who live there. Hope this helps but maybe a Liverpudlian will see your post!

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. So, if I need a quite large home for a very wealthy family my best bet would be to have it out of the city.

Thanks for the names of areas to check out and see if one of them will suit.