Originally Posted by Bob Edwards D-Day Anniversary June 6th 1944 On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied troops departed England on planes and ships, made the trip across the English Channel and attacked the beaches of Normandy in an attempt to break through Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall” and break his grip on Europe. Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing nearly three months it took to secure the Allied capture of Normandy. ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards D Day Commemoration The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Gary Millar, today marked the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings by laying a wreath at the Normandy Veterans Memorial Stone in St John's gardens. Also present were the Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside, Dame Lorna Muirhead, military representatives and several D-Day veterans and members of 'The Royal British Legion' The Lord Mayor said: "It is an honour to be asked to lay a wreath here today" ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards News reports of street violence, perpetrated by those described as ‘callous, mindless thugs’ shock and disturb all decent people. But it was ever thus in Victorian England, and nowhere more than on the dark, narrow, cobbled streets and dockland haunts of Liverpool. Violent street gangs had been in existence in the Town since the mid-19th Century, Some would go on the attack for sectarian or racist reasons’; some for the purposes of robbery; and others simply for the pleasure they derived from ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards The original township of Huyton was united with Roby to form the township of Huyton with Roby and in 1877 Thingwall was added and also part of the parish of Childwall. The area of the amalgamated townships was 3,054 acres, and the population in 1901 numbered 4,661. In 1907 the area was described as follows: ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards A conviction for the murder of a cinema manager, that sent a young Liverpool labourer to the gallows 53 years before, was overturned by the court of appeal on 10th June 2003. George Kelly was executed at Walton jail on Merseyside in March 1950, following what was then the longest criminal trial in English legal history. ...
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