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. […]
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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