Along this latter stretch it forms the southern boundary of Crown Street Park, the site of Liverpool's first railway station.

The Liverpool Echo reported in 1960 that some of the worst blocks of housing in the area where around Falkner Street.

[3] Following years of demolition and rebuild, emphasis in the mid-1970s "shifted violently away from clearing to improving", with many homes in Falkner Street instead listed as being of "architectural interest" and renovated instead of being bulldozed.

[5] However, a children's playground that had been set up in Falkner Street with £8,000 from urban aid funds was in a vandalised and disused state by the 1980s, then being used as a rubbish tip.

[6] Notable residents have included Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles pop group, who owned the ground floor flat at No 36 and let John Lennon and then wife Cynthia Lennon use it during the first few months of their marriage and through her pregnancy in 1962 and 1963.