Originally Posted by Bob Edwards Continuing with the theme of ‘famous scousers’ todays’ article is about one of our most well-known newscasters. Peter George Sissons was born in Liverpool on 17th July 1942 he later attended Dovedale Road Junior School, along with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck and after taking the 11+ examination he went on to the Liverpool Institute for Boys. He attended ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards The village of Capel Celyn and the Tryweryn valley near Bala were flooded in 1965 in order to supply water for the City of Liverpool. Eight hundred acres of land was flooded and the school, the post office, the chapel and the cemetery lost. This was to create the Llyn Celyn (Celyn lake) reservoir to supply Liverpools residents with water. The Tryweryn Bill ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards First written about by Richard Whittington Egan So who was the man in the cylinder, how did he get there and was he there of his own accord? these were the questions that sprung to mind when I first heard this tale. It referred to a cylinder, which was found near the junction of Great Homer Street and Fulford Street in Kirkdale. ...
Originally Posted by Bob Edwards If I mention the name David Levy to you, it probably won’t mean a lot, David Levy was the son of a Jewish merchant in London who came to a then booming, Liverpool in 1838. On his arrival I the city he Anglicised his name to the one we are all familiar with, David Lewis. He first worked as an apprentice for the Lord Street tailoring firm of Hyam and company and at 32 chose a premises on Ranelagh Street to set up his boys clothing shop. The shop was no more than 24 feet long with a single entrance. ...
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