I alluded in a previous scribbling to the Dickensian decay of various parts of my old neighbourhood. Indeed it would seem that my wife has a mental image of me barefoot, hoop in hand, scampering behind a Hansom cab crying "spare us a farving Guv?" to the top-hatted occupants. While we are of the same vintage, our childhood environments differed. Her grandparents migrated from surrounding parishes and settled into the village of Speke in 1905, their first child being born in that year, ...
.
Just as wildlife uses hedgerows as corridors of travel, we kids in Edge Hill/Liverpool had the ubiquitous 'entry' ('enog'/jigger/jowler etc). Intimate knowledge of these byways was sometimes critical to survival, as there was the ever present chance of encountering other denizens of the district intent on discovering ones sporting allegiances. "Oo do yer stick up for?" was a somewhat loaded question, as the inquisitors were always in a position of numerical strength; the reward for an ...
I am quite new to the site (first site I have ever been on so finding it really difficult to understand words like blog/forum/threads)? I am a busy staff nurse (of 30 yrs) and I'm 62 going on 42. Trying hard to find out things like how I can find out about places where I was born - New Road Tuebrook. Patients I look after ask me about Carters from the 1920s era? Where do I find this info? I click on to lots of messages but cannot figure out how to see the photographs they have ...
Recent Comments