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 […]
THE FEVER OUTBREAK OF 1861
Liverpool World Museum’s Egyptian collection is now in storage until the Autumn of 2016 while renovation work is carried out to the display area. Many of the exhibits were donated by local goldsmith Joseph Mayer in 1867 meaning the museum had the largest collection of Egyptology in Britain outside London. However earlier that decade there […]
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 […]
LIVERPOOL AS A COASTAL RESORT
The people of Liverpool are lucky to have proximity to beaches at New Brighton and Crosby, but over 200 years ago they didn’t even have to go that far. Back then the town had ample bathing facilities near to Princes Dock, including the largest bath in the world, making the area popular amongst locals and […]
THE ST JAMES’ GARDENS SPRING
Overlooked by Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral is the city’s only natural spring, which was once said to be able to promote appetite and quicken digestion but had been discovered a year too late to deal with a major epidemic in the town. In 1773 the Chalybeate (meaning ‘containing iron) spring was discovered by quarrymen on the eastern side […]
TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG MINISTER
Two hundred and four years ago the power of the River Mersey was demonstrated when an inspiring young churchman, who had only been in the town for six months, tragically drowned whilst bathing. Born in 1791 in Hertfordshire, Thomas Spencer was working as glover’s apprentice in London when he became interested in the dissenting ministries […]
GHASTLY DISCOVERY AT JAMES STREET
A busy station on the Merseyrail underground network was the scene of a tragedy near the end of the 19th century when a man was run over by a train and his body not discovered for several hours. James Street opened in 1886, the terminus of the Liverpool to Birkenhead railway. Along with Hamilton Square […]
SCHOOLBOY’S PREMONITION OF HIS OWN DEATH
During the summer of 1927 a boy from the Blue Coat School in Wavertree told his friends there would be a large crowd for his funeral as they passed a church. They told him not to be silly but shockingly they were back at the same place just a few weeks later for the boy’s burial. […]
THE SMITHDOWN ROAD STREET FOOTBALLERS
A street in Cheltenham where parents have been told to stop their children playing football in the street as it is a breach of their tenancy agreement has made the news in the last week. Such complaints about street football are not a new phenomenon though, as the matter saw people put before the courts […]
RAILWAY WORKERS PUT PASSENGER SAFETY BEFORE OWN LIVES
A plaque on platform one of Lime Street Station commemorates two railway workers fromthe Edge Hill depot who died following an accident, having first ensured the safety of all passengers. On 20th May 1937 sixty year old Joseph Ball was driving the 1040 Euston to Liverpool express train, accompanied by fireman Cormack Higgins. Just a […]
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