Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
It was only applicabale to the south end of the city and only around Toxteth and predominantly the

dock area. Few people living outside had ever heard of it.
Not quite so Waterways, we kids in my neighbourhood (bottom end of Scotland Road) would,

starting on the Monday of Holy week, parade an effigy of Judas, just like a "Guy" on Guy Fawkes night and beg a "Penny for his soul, Judas!". Or, "A penny

for the soul of Judas". We would share out the money on Goodfriday afternoon at 3:00pm, the supposed time that Christ died on the cross, and burn "Judas" in

effigy on a bonfire. The time frame would have been the late forties and early fifties. I will assume that we got the tradition from the generation before



mine, where they got it from I don't know.