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

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

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 :)

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the additional information and search terms.

Eep! Definitely can't have them being caught up in riots. That wouldn't help Doyle's state at all. ;)

I think I've settled on Cressington Park for my Liverpool location.