Originally Posted by Bob Edwards In the year 1907 the authors William Farrer and J. Brownbill described Kirkdale as follows: With a frontage to the Mersey of a mile in length, Kirkdale extends inland about a mile and a half, the area being 841 acres. It occupies the level ground between Everton and the river, a large part of which was formerly Sandhills, and the village lay at the foot of the hill, on the north-west side of the road from Liverpool to Walton. To the north rose a brook which ran down to the ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards 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 ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards West Derby The paragraph below describes West Derby in the early eighteenth century: The township lies on the edge of the open country, where the smoke-laden air of the city is exchanged for the fresher breezes which blow over open fields and through masses of foliage. True, there is hardly a break in the long line of houses from the city to the village of West ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards The authors William Farrer & J. Brownbill writing about Toxteth, described it as follows: This township, stretched for 3 miles along to the River Mersey, and stretches inland for 2 miles. The ground in the northerly half rises somewhat steeply from the river; inland there are several undulations, the highest ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Liverpool Education Committee attendance medal Elementary education began in Liverpool with the provision of a number of Sunday-schools for the poor, which were founded as the result of a town's meeting in 1784. These were rapidly followed by the institution of day-schools, provided either by various denominations or by endowment. ...
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