In Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter customers sit at the pavement cafes on the corner of Falkner Street and Hope Street sipping coffee, drinking beer and eating snacks and light meals. They do so in complete ignorance of an illicit trade that went on within spitting distance in 1888 when the local community were shocked to learn […]
TRAGEDY OF PETER KAVANAGH’S SON-IN-LAW
Peter Kavanagh’s pub in Egerton Street is one of the most famous in the city. Originally the Liver Inn, it is now named after the licensee who ran it for an incredible fifty three years from 1897 to 1950. In addition to running the pub which bears his name, Kavanagh found time to take a […]
Boys Drown in River Ribble Tragedy
A notable memorial seen on the left when entering Anfield cemetery from Priory Road is that of a boy who drowned in the River Ribble in 1892. Edward John Jones was a sixteen year old scholar at St Johns College in Grimsargh near Preston. He was the son of an architect and the family home […]
THE LOSS OF THE ELIZABETH BUCKHAM
A tragedy occurred on 26th November 1866 when the Elizabeth Buckham and her cargo was lost in Liverpool Bay, leading to the deaths of all on board as well as two people on the shore. The Elizabeth Buckham was built in Whitehaven in 1837 and weighed 242 tons. Initially she sailed between England and Australia, […]
JOHN WEIGHTMAN – LIVERPOOL’S GRAND ARCHITECT
Some of Liverpool’s finest municipal buildings were designed by Corporation architect John Weightman, who doesn’t even have a wikipedia page and whose grave is a sorry state in Toxteth Park cemetery. Born in London in 1798, John Weightman came to Liverpool at the age of 26 to take up a position as a draughtsman for […]
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