Originally Posted by BobEd I have said many times that one of the great things about running a local history website, is the information that comes from the people who use the site. A lady recently posted a photograph on my ‘Liverpool Picturebook, Facebook page of her Great Grandfather, who was a Police Officer with both Lancashire Constabulary and Liverpool City Police, I contacted her to see what ...
Originally Posted by Crosby Past and Present By Crosbypastand Present in CROSBY PAST AND PRESENT (Files) · Edit doc · Delete I'm sure a lot of you are aware of the large boulder stone in Coroantion Park, but have you ever wondered what it is and how it came about. Well here's just a few brief details along with a photo taken on the day it was removed from Liverpool Road and few others taken over the years. The twenty tonne mass of gypsum -an 'erratic' boulder, believed to have been carried south from Cumberland ...
Originally Posted by BobEd People in Liverpool are today attending a vigil to commemorate the birthday of George Harrison, the organisers have named it ‘Imagine’ after the John Lennon song. George would have celebrated his 70th Birthday. George Harrison, singer, and songwriter, achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. During the mid-1960s, ...
Originally Posted by Pat Springsteen So, where to today? Where shall we fly first, my lovely soot butterflies? I think to an old cemetery with a large dark stone pyramid tomb in the middle of it, just up that hill there, up out of the city centre, to the bohemian quarter, up past Chinatown and the bombed out church. But wait! Just so I don’t get into trouble again, I will say from the start that this is only a tour of the Liverpool of the Soot Butterfles, not the Rome; and I promise not to tell any lewd tales here ...
Originally Posted by Pat Springsteen While on the subject of cemeteries, let‘s fly up Rodney Street now, then up to the Anglican Cathedral. But no, don’t go towards the cathedral doors with all the tourists. Take a look to the left of the huge structure. All the tourists are looking straight ahead, gobsmacked (in the Liverpool parlance) at their first sight of the cathedral; so gobsmacked in fact that they just keep looking straight ahead as they walk up to, then into, the cathedral. They never look to the left. But you are, now. ...
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