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Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Liverpool Artist Yankel Feather Yankel Feather was a British painter, he was born in Liverpool on 21st June 1920 to Austro-Russian parents as one of seven and died on 18th April 2009. Yankel was born in Toxteth, into a poor family as the youngest of seven children. He went to Harrington County Primary School and later to a Jewish secondary school. Feather met his absentee father, an Austrian immigrant, only once. He was confronted at the age of fourteen with the premature death of ...
Originally Posted by BobEd The Pavement Artist (A Liverpool tale) Addison Street 1929 James William Carling (1857–1887) was a pavement artist from Liverpool. Carling was born at 38 Addison Street, Liverpool in the Holy Cross parish in 1857. He was the son of extremely poor Irish parents. From an early age James was known as the "little ...