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    Bootle - A brief history

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    Bob Edwards
    , 03-27-2014 at 09:43 AM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Bootle Coat Of Arms with the motto,
    Respice, Aspice, Prospice'
    Look backwards, look around, look forward.
    ©John Bradley


    Bootle as it was described in 1901:

    This township has a frontage to the Mersey of nearly a
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    Woolton Village

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    Bob Edwards
    , 03-04-2013 at 07:47 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Just across Menlove Avenue is Woolton Village which is on the surface a pretty suburb of Liverpool which to a large extent retains the vestiges of village life in the face of an ever-encroaching and all-encompassing "improved way of life" which means in effect more traffic and more housing estates, just two factors which have sounded the death knell of
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