A Liverpool man who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was regularly punished by the army for drunkenness, but he may not have been drinking alcohol at all. The son of a bottler, John Kirk was born in July 1827 and grew up in a court off Ormond […]
TRAGEDY OF A BANKERS SON
In 1916 Bank Hall station was the scene of a tragic accident that left two men dead, one of them the son of the founder of one of the world’s major banking corporations in the world. At 7.30pm on 22nd December 1916 at Bank Hall station a male passenger was confused by the extreme darkness and stepped […]
TRAGEDY OF A LIVERPOOL PROFESSOR
In 1906 a Liverpool language professor died in tragic circumstances whilst attending a conference in Switzerland. Dr Richard John Lloyd was missing for several days before his body was washed up across the border in France, having apparently fallen into the River Rhone and drowned. Lloyd was born in Liverpool in 1846 and worked as […]
HOW OLD WAS THE VICTORIAN CENTENARIAN OF EDGE LANE?
Every day thousands of cars travel down Edge Lane on their way in and out of Liverpool, the drivers and passengers no doubt unaware that one of the few remaining houses was the home of a woman whose death brought about a contested will and identity theft. On 20th December 1863 a spinster Mary Billinge died […]
MAN V FOOD IN THE LIVERPOOL TOWER
In St John’s Gardens there is a plaque in both English and French commemorating over 400 prisoners who died in captivity in Liverpool during the Napoleonic Wars and were buried in the churchyard of the church that stood there at the time. They had been interred at the Liverpool Tower in Strand Street on the […]
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