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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Sir John Moores Littlewoods

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    Today we take mail order shopping for granted but in 1930s Liverpool unemployment was rife and obtaining credit was no easy matter for many cash-strapped families. John Moores' solution was to offer his customers a 'turn club' system of credit. The idea was that people would get together and form clubs and each member would pay one shilling a week into the kitty. Moores
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