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This reply is very late, it being 2019 nearly 2020 now but I have some things to contribute. I have German ancestry on both sides, both my mother and fathers ancestors being Prussian but we’ll call it German eh? I’m from West Derby but my maternal great-great grandfather, Heinrich Nickolaus Ehlen emigrated to Liverpool, where my family have lived ever since thanks to them, and settled in Kirkdale I believe - well that was where he lived later in life, if he lived there all his life I do not know. My 4th great grandfather, Francis Schomberg was a Lithuanian/Prussian/German Jewish immigrant (I presume he was Jewish because of his surname) and he too was in the Kirkdale area I believe. When I looked at the people who lived in Heinrich’s house (it was the Victorian Era so people obviously were that poor that they had to share houses) they all had german surnames, which just adds to the presumption that Kirdale was a key place for a German diaspora). The conclusion I have drew is that Kirkdale was a community for them, almost a safe haven from the anti-German attitudes at the time. All the best, fellow German-Britons.