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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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    Liverpool Town Hall

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    Bob Edwards
    , 09-14-2012 at 11:42 AM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    The first recorded town hall in Liverpool was in 1515 and it was probably a thatched building. It was replaced in 1673 by a building slightly to the south of the present town hall. This town hall stood on "pillars and arches of hewen stone" and under it was the exchange for merchants and traders to carry out their business.


    Building of the
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