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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution

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    In the nineteenth century there was no welfare state for the relief of unemployed or destitute sailors, their families or even their orphaned children. The shipowners and merchants of Liverpool played an integral role in raising the interest of the people of Liverpool in welfare provision for seamen and their families. The archives, which relate to maritime charities and missions, demonstrate
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