The south end of Vauxhall near the city centre is home to Liverpool John Moores University at Byrom Street.

In the mid-19th century as destitute, starving Irish immigrants flooded into the area particularly during the Great Famine, Scotland Road had become densely overcrowded, this with people living in courts and cellars in appalling conditions with poverty and sickness worse than anywhere in the country.

The crypt of St Anthony's Church on Scotland Road contains the remains of around 2000 men, women and children who escaped Ireland to Liverpool during the Great Famine but later died during the Cholera and Typhus epidemics of 1847.

[6] Eldon Grove (now Grade II listed) was built as model housing as part of a labourers' village and was officially opened by the Countess of Derby in 1912.

Community was at the centre of Scotland Road and a shared distinctly Liverpool -Irish identity evolved through the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Urban clearance and the construction of the Wallasey Tunnel in the 1960s and '70s led to a shift in population of the area to various parts of the city such as Kirkby, Croxteth, Norris Green, Fazakerley, Huyton, Stockbridge Village to new modern housing, leaving Scotland Road in a state of steady decline.

2008 marked 30 years since a new housing estate breathed life into derelict land to the west of Vauxhall Road[8] called Eldonian Village.