19th Century Bobby on the beat Image courtesy of Liverpool Record Office and Liverpool Libraries.

	Hear of the luxuries afforded by the more successful courtesans
Margaret Cox describes her first glimpse in to the home of a well to do prostitute
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"I can remember three ladies of the town, that lived in a beautiful house in Upper Parliament Street. And there was another lady who had a most gorgeous flat in Rodney Street. I would say this lady was a bit coarse to say the least, but she had a beautiful mink coat and she never wore slippers. She had ostrich feathered mules.

"On one occasion I had to go to her house to deliver two pairs of shoes and two pairs of slippers on a special order because she had visitors arriving. A lady came to the door and then a voice came down, ‘Come up love, come up.’ I went up and couldn't believe what I was looking at. There was the most gorgeous grand piano in this flat and a music teacher. She was learning to play the piano. The flat was out of this world, unbelievable. "