T J Hughes is a Liverpool retail institution, which began in 1912 when Thomas John Hughes opened a small shop in London Road. Within twenty years it had grown to be one of Liverpool’s biggest department stores with over 400 staff. However, Hughes’s devotion to growing his business was also behind his tragic death in 1933. The […]
WHO WAS DICKIE?
The statue above the main entrance to the old Lewis’s department store in Ranelagh Street has been the meeting place for many a courting couple. Affectionately known as “Dickie Lewis’s”, it is also the “statue exceedingly bare” referred to in the song In My Liverpool Home, but what is the real name and origins of […]
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