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    Thanks guys, particularly Ged for that wonderful website. Brings back some great memories. I'm particularly interested to learn about life around the Kirkdale area during 1911-1914. The area around Arlington Street is of particular interest.

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    1911: Soldiers of the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment disembark at Brunswick Goods Station on Sefton St/Northumberland St. This station was for a few years a major passenger terminus, until Central Station was built. This was the first time since 1874 that the station had been used by passenger trains. The soldiers were kept away from major flash points of the city centre and the immediate North End of the city.




    Below: Liverpool Magistrate Start Deacon with Colonel East of the Second Warwickshire Regiment at Brunswick Goods Station.



    Below: Brunswick Goods station. The small buildings is the former passenger rail building, with the later massive goods station built around it.


    Below: HMS Antrim, which was anchored in mid-river during the riots of 1911.


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    Quote Originally Posted by robbo176 View Post
    here are a couple more interesting links

    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/2828
    The above link is quite good. It touches on how the city's ruling class divided and ruled and kept wage costs down by:

    1. Religious segregation.

    2. Owning vast tracts of land and property - The merchants and ship owners also owned vast tracts of land around the city and with coherence with the council did not allow other forms of industry to form that would compete with the core warehousing and shipping industries.

    It was not until the 1920/30s that new diverse industries came into the city in any volume, paying more than traditional industries, and new art deco factories were built on the outskirts. Post WW2, the car factories came.
    The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
    Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click

    Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
    becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
    longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
    tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
    canals to view its modern museum describing
    how it once was?


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