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  1. Owen Owen Staff Reunion 2013

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    Owen Owen Reunion at A Hard Days Night Hotel



    Former staff from Liverpool's old department store, Owen Owen, met for their second reunion on Sunday 15th September 2013. Staff from the former Clayton Square store got together at A Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool to reminisce about their time at the store and meet old friends.

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  2. India Buildings

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    India Buildings



    India Buildings in Water Street Liverpool, was completed early in the year 1931, the site is bounded by, Water Street and Brunswick Street and with side frontages on to Fenwick Street and Drury Lane, the building is in the heart of the business and banking quarter of Liverpool.

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  3. John Alexander Brodie

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    John Alexander Brodie (1858–1934) was a British civil engineer.



    John Brodie was Liverpool’s City Engineer from 1898 until retirement in 1926. He was a pioneer in the field of town planning, and one of his legacies in the city is the network of wide avenues in the outer suburbs. These were conceived from the outset as part of a system of public
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  4. Cunard Shipping Line

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    Cunard Shipping Line



    It was in 1838 that shipping magnate Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, along with engineer Robert Napier and businessmen James Donaldson, Sir George Burns, and David MacIver formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (BNARMSPC). This company was however distinct from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company founded
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  5. St Johns Gardens

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    St Johns Gardens



    In the mid 18th Century Liverpool began its
    first phase urban expansion. In 1767 St Johns Gardens was enclosed as a general burial ground with a small mortuary Chapel. It was in 1775 that the first stones were laid for St John’s Church which was designed
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