In 1941 there was a non war related tragedy when a Liverpool policeman and four members of the same family were killed in a house fire in Dingle. In the early hours of Saturday 29th March that year a fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Laxey Street, Dingle (below left). Believed […]
THE SWIMMING POLICEMAN
The city council run Auston Rawlinson sports centre in Speke is named after one of the city’s first Olympians who combined his role as a police officer with the development of swimming as a sport. Rawlinson showed his prowess at an early age, winning the backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke titles at the Garston Schools Gala […]
DID SEAFOOD TRADER LIVE IN 3 CENTURIES?
Liverpool Roman Catholic cemetery in Ford, Litherland contains tens of thousands of graves. It is unlikely there are any headstones commemorating anybody older than Richard Philbin, who died in 1904 at the grand age of one hundred and seven, or did he? There is no doubt that Philbin lived until a grand age for the […]
The Pelican Tragedy of 1793
A parade on the River Mersey of two privateers one spring afternoon in March 1793 ended in tragedy when one of them sank, leading to the deaths of over one hundred people on board. Europe had been slowly descending into chaos since the French Revolution of 1789 and in 1793 France declared war on Great […]
WHEN LIVERPOOL’S TAXI DRIVERS EARNED FOOTBALLERS WAGES
One Hundred years ago a court case took place in Liverpool during which question marks arose over the earnings of taxi drivers who were suggested to be earning footballers wages. On 13th January 1916 at Liverpool County Court a motor company tried to reclaim a taxi that was being sold to the driver under a […]
THE ‘DRUNKEN’ VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENT
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 […]
THE TOXTETH TABERNACLE
Somewhat overshadowed by its near neighbours the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth and St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, the Toxteth Tabernacle continues to serve the local community for the purpose it was intended nearly 150 years ago. The Tab, as it is commonly known in the local area, was opened in 1871 by William P Lockhart. […]
A WINTER TRAGEDY IN LITHERLAND
A grave in Liverpool’s Roman Catholic Cemetery at Ford reveals a tragic tale of boys being killed playing on the winter ice over 100 years ago. January 1905 was a bitterly cold month that saw temperatures across Britain remain below zero for a number of weeks and bodies of water freeze over up and down […]
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