Re-opening next year as a hotel the Municipal Annexe, where many of the Militants policies were implemented in the 1980s, was once the headquarters of the Liverpool Conservatives. They hosted many events attended by senior politicians long before those of a different ideology gained a foothold in the building. The foundation stone for the Conservative […]
DOME INSTEAD OF A SKYSCRAPER
The first of the ‘Three Graces’ on Liverpool’s waterfront was completed in 1907 when the Port of Liverpool Building, then known as the Dock Offices, opened. The final product though was far different than first envisaged, as a plan for a twenty storey skyscraper was rejected and a dome added to the chosen design late […]
NO FLIES IN LOAF OF ROYAL BAKERS
One of Liverpool’s most popular real ale pubs is the Fly in the Loaf in Hardman Street, so named as it is situated in the old Kirklands Bakery, who used that phrase as their slogan. This certainly was the case of a bakery that was renowned for its Vienna Bread and supplied members of the […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST BALLOON FLIGHT
Princes Dock was the place where many emigrants boarded vessels to take them to the New World and where cruise liners berth today. However more than 200 years ago it was the setting for a much different form of transportation when Vincenzo Lunardi flew overhead in a hydrogen balloon. The first balloon flight was in […]
WHEN BUFFALO BILL CAME TO NEWSHAM PARK
Newsham Park has recently played host to Royal De Luxe’s Giant Spectacular, but 123 years ago it was the venue for two weeks of stagecoach races, shooting displays and robbery re-enactments as Buffalo Bill rolled into town. William Frederick Cody earned his title by killing 4,000 buffalo in eighteen months whilst hired to provide meat […]
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