Liverpool - Liverpool Lime Street - Lime street - tram lines, Shops with Blinds to House at the end. Part of Box 62 Boswell Collection - Liverpool. The street was named for lime kilns owned by William Harvey, a local businessman. When the street was laid out in 1790 it was outside the city limits, but by 1804 the lime kilns were causing problems at a nearby infirmary. The doctors complained about the smell, and so the kilns were moved away, but the street name remained unchanged.