The Wapping Dock warehouse is a prominent feature to motorists driving along Wapping and The Strand in Liverpool city centre. Designed by the same engineer who built the Albert Dock, it stands next to Wapping Dock and was the scene of an extraordinary event in 1929 when dockers fought each other for a day’s work. […]
WELSH EISTEDDFOD IN LIVERPOOL
Last weekend saw Newsham Park taken over by the Giants, but this isn’t the first time one of Liverpool’s parks has been the subject of a unique event. In 1929 Sefton Park hosted the Welsh Eisteddfod with a record crowd attending on the first day. Previous Eisteddfod’s had been held in the city in 1884 […]
MUNICIPAL DAMAGE
Liverpool City Council’s Municipal Building in Dale Street suffered some bomb damage in World War II, leading to the rear wall having to be rebuilt. Some 80 years earlier, a wall of the building was damaged on a much smaller scale, leading to a youth ending up in court. Designed by the Corporation Surveyor John […]
RIOT AGAINST GEORGIAN ORANGEMEN
Orange Lodge marches have been occurring in Liverpool for nearly 200 years. The first took place as long ago as 1819 when the marchers were attacked by Irish Catholic immigrants in Dale Street, with the local media reporting that it was lucky nobody was killed. Throughout the 18th Century Orange associations formed across England as […]
FIRE AT HEAPS MILL
There is a debate going on at present over whether a disused Victorian mill in the Baltic Triangle should be demolished to make way for new apartment blocks. If developers get their way, they will succeed where fire failed over 150 years ago. Joseph Heap first started milling rice on Park Lane in 1780, although […]
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