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Category Archives: Liverpool
In Memoriam
I was in Liverpool recently for a day and decided to go over the water to visit the U-Boat Story museum at Birkenhead, where salvaged German submarine U-534 lies at rest. I went aboard U-534 some years ago at the … Continue reading
A Sentimental Journey
I was passing through Liverpool lately and thought I would take a sentimental journey (after the title of one of his solo albums) into the city’s South End to look at the two houses Ringo Starr lived in before the Beatles … Continue reading
Posted in Historical, Liverpool, Liverpool Past and Present, Musical, Uncategorized, Urban History
Tagged 10 Admiral Grove, 9 Madryn Street, Beatles, Empress pub Liverpool, George Harrison, High Park Street Liverpool, Princes Park Regeneration zone, Ringo Starr, Sentimental Jounrney, Welsh Streets Liverpool
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At the Landing Stage
I have written previously about the journalist Hugh Shimmin, who was such a vivid observer of Liverpool’s mid-Victorian low-life, and such a committed activist for improved social conditions in the town. Having been granted permission to reproduce the following portrait … Continue reading
Posted in Historical, Liverpool, Liverpool Past and Present, Women's History
Tagged Alastair Wilcox, George's Landing Stage, Hugh Shimmin, Isle of Man, John K. Walton, Low Life and Moral Improvement, National Museums Liverpool, Richard Norbury, Rock Ferry, Seacombe ferry, the Porcupine, the Three Graces, Whitehaven
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Liverpool’s Own St Paul’s
One of the most prominent and distinctive buildings on nineteenth century Liverpool’s skyline would have been the beautiful, but now long demolished, St Paul’s church. I have a personal connection to its former site, which I shall explain. John Raphael … Continue reading
Posted in Historical, Liverpool, Liverpool Past and Present, Music, Prog-rock, Urban History
Tagged Arthur Brown at Liverpool Stadium, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brierley drawing of St Paul's Liverpool, Brudenell Social Club, Exchange Station, John Raphael Isaac, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Liverpool 1859, Liverpool Boxing Stadium, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's church Liverpool
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An Oriel Prospect
Liverpool must have presented a magnificent prospect to visitors in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, whether arriving by sea or rail. They could hardly fail to be impressed by the city’s gigantic dock complex, the immense worldwide trade … Continue reading
Hugh Shimmin’s Liverpool
The action in my latest novel has moved to Liverpool and features an expedition to some of the lowest quarters of the city’s North End in 1864. My research for this has sent me back to reading the little-known journalism … Continue reading