Originally Posted by Bob Edwards The first recorded cotton dealing in Liverpool was a newspaper advertisement for an auction of 28 bags of Jamaican cotton in 1759. Over the next seven decades a series of technological and industrial developments revolutionised cotton production. Liverpool enjoyed a physical proximity to the world centre of the industry ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards People have been crossing the River Mersey by ferry between the Wirral and Liverpool for almost 800 years and even though many of these ferries no longer operate the places where they used to come and go from are still known. Place names such as Monks Ferry, Job's Ferry, New Ferry and Rock Ferry show where ferries used to run between the Wirral and Liverpool. Some of the main ferries to Liverpool operated from New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Woodside, Monks Ferry, and Runcorn. Early ferryboats ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Myrtle Gardens During the 1930s large blocks of tenements were built in Liverpool under the direction of Lancelot Keay, Director of Housing from 1925 and later City Architect. One of the surviving examples is Myrtle Gardens, now Minster Court. Liverpool had already built some large multi-storey schemes of more conventional design in the suburbs in the later 1920s. The broader ambition of the Corporation and its architects was seen fully in the schemes which followed. ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards William Henry Duncan, (1805–1863) William Henry Duncan, (1805–1863), was a physician and medical officer of health, he was born in Seel Street, Liverpool on 27 January 1805, the third son and fifth of the seven children of George Duncan, merchant of Liverpool, and his wife, Christian, the youngest daughter of James Currie, minister of Middlebie and of ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Here in Liverpool, Brian Epstein’s name will always be most associated with The Beatles. But NEMS Enterprises Ltd. His management organisation looked after other artists, as well. Some of these are still around today. From 1962 ...
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