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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Liverpool and the NSPCC

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post
    The late 19th century was a time of social deprivation and great hardship for many children. The Reverend George Staite summed up the inhumanity of the era in a letter to the Liverpool Mercury in 1881: “…whilst we have a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, can we not do something to prevent cruelty to children?”



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