The Coffee House is probably the oldest pub in Wavertree, having been listed in the Ale House Recognizances as early as 1777. A key meeting place, it was the scene in 1883 of an inquest following a local tragedy when a man committed suicide on Dunbabin Road. The pub was a popular day out from […]
THE DUNBABINS OF CHILDWALL
A long road that straddles Childwall and Wavertree recalls a time when the area was farmland not the mass of semi detached houses that it has been since the 1930s. Dunbabin Road, which stretches from the Childwall Triangle end of Taggart Avenue to WooltonRoad and is 800 metres long, remembers Dunbabin farm that was there […]
TOXTETH PARK PLOUGHING CONTEST
Nowadays the Brook House pub in Smithdown Road is a favourite haunt of students living in the locality, surrounded by streets of densely packed terraced houses. This is vastly different from the mid 19th Century when fields in the vicinity were the venue for annual ploughing contests amongst farmers. The current Brook House dates from […]
GOING FOR A BEVVY
Many roads were obliterated as a result of the Liverpool to Wallasey tunnel being built in the last 1960s but some have survived, remembering a long gone hamlet which gave the name to the traditional Scouse phrase of ‘going for a bevvy’ (aka pint, few ales, few scoops etc etc). 300 years ago the built […]
THE WELSH CATHEDRAL
Standing in a sadly derelict state on Princes Road in Toxteth is the Welsh Presbyterian Church, which once laid claim to the title of Liverpool’s tallest building. Plans for the new church for Toxteth’s growing Welsh community were unveiled in January 1865, when a public meeting was attended by over 1,000 people at their Bedford […]
CHURCH TRAGEDY AS STEEPLE COLLAPSES
One of Liverpool’s most famous churches is that of Our Lady and St Nicholas on the waterfront, commonly known as the Sailors’ Church. A place of worship has been there for over 750 years but the current building dates from only the early 19th Century due to two major incidents, the first of which saw […]
ACTORS FIGHTING AT THE ROYAL COURT
In 1886 there was an extraordinary incident at Liverpool’s Royal Court theatre that left an actor facing a court summons after assaulting an impresario during rehearsals. Leslie Crotty was an actor with the Carl Rosa Opera Company who began a five week residency at the Royal Court at the beginning of the year. Founded by […]
HORSEPLAY AT THE ROYAL COURT
One of Liverpool’s most famous theatres is the Royal Court which was re-built in 1938 following a fire. It replaced an earlier venue that was first built as Cooke’s New Circus in 1826, which was one of England’s grandest provincial entertainment venues. Work commenced on Cooke’s New Circus in November 1825. John Cooke was the previous […]
DOGS LONG GONE
A social club, market and school in the north of Liverpool give no indication of what was there beforehand. All three were the site of greyhound tracks, a sport that was once extremely popular in the city but hasn’t taken place here for over forty years. Back in the 1930s there were three tracks within […]
ARMY DRILLS IN THE MUSEUM
Now the largest museum in England outside of London, Liverpool World Museum first opened in 1860 to house a natural history collection with the basement being set aside for volunteer army practice. Liverpool’s first public library was set up in 1852 at the Union Newsroom in Duke Street, a building which is still standing. […]
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