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    Hugh Shimmin (1820 - 1879)

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    , 03-07-2014 at 11:30 AM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Hugh Shimmin was born in Castletown, and went, when a child, with his parents, to Liverpool, where they apprenticed him to a stationer and bookbinder. When as a young man he had the opportunity to buy the business he was delighted to find that his wife had saved enough money for him to do so. He later founded the "Porcupine"
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    Everyman Theatre Opening This weekend saw the return of an old friend, Liverpool welcomed back the new Everyman Theatre. And after a £27m rebuild

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    , 03-03-2014 at 09:26 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    This weekend saw the return of an old friend, Liverpool welcomed back the new Everyman Theatre. And after a £27m rebuild the Theatre looks amazing, not only outside, but inside as well. The celebrations began on Saturday 1st March with a parade entitled 'Lights Up', created by Walk the Plank, The Liverpool Lantern Company and Sense of Sound. Hundreds of people began gathering outside both the Playhouse, where the parade began and the Everyman, the destination for the parade, from early evening.
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    Liverpool Lifeboats

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    , 02-27-2014 at 10:48 AM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    There is documentary evidence     of the existence of a boat and station for saving lives’ at Formby Point in 1776.

    It was William Hutchinson, the Liverpool Dock Master; who, supported by the Dock Trustees, arranged for Britain’s first life-boat station to be established at Formby The exact date of the
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    The Development of Liverpool Docks

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    , 02-24-2014 at 12:15 AM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    It was Liverpool’s role in the early development of railway technology which resulted in the parallel setting up of docks at Garston, established as an unloading point for coal. Garston Dock mushroomed from a very small dock enterprise which had originally been built in south Liverpool for Blackburne’s saltworks. It was when the St Helens Canal and Railway Company extended its track system and needed extra provision of coal that the Garston Dock proper, covering six square acres of land, was
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    Atlantic Crossings - Liverpool to America

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    , 02-20-2014 at 11:32 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    It was a tiny cargo, but the 30 tonnes of tobacco brought into Liverpool from America on a ship called the Friendship back in 1648 had great historic significance. It is widely believed that the Friendship’s freight was the first instance of transatlantic trade between Liverpool and the United States.





    James Jenkinson, the merchant
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