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 […]
HEARSE DRIVER STEALS CIGARS
The Railway Hotel in Kirkby was the scene of a shocking theft in 1866 when a hearse driver returning from a funeral stopped off and helped himself to the landlord’s cigars whilst buying some ale. Although Kirkby as a new town has only developed after the 2nd World War, there had been farms in the […]
TRANSPORTED AFTER WATERLOO DOCK STABBING
Now one of Liverpool’s many dock warehouses that have been converted to apartments, Waterloo Dock was once the site of a racially fuelled fracas that led to a foreign seaman being transported for seven years. The dock itself was opened in 1834 and designed by Jesse Hartley, who would go on to design the Albert […]
A PESTILENTIAL AND CRIME HAUNTED DEN
A street that is now a handy cut through that helps avoid the traffic on Leeds Street was once a den of inequity in Liverpool. Chisenhale Street, which runs from Pall Mall to Vauxhall Road was once described as being a place that was a pestilential and crime haunted den which ‘nowhere in the world could […]
THE COINERS OF VIRGIL STREET
Greatie Market has recently found a new home with land next to Virgil Street becoming a car park. However it has arrived there 180 years too late for a family who lived there and made a healthy profit from coining before being transported. Markets back then were a good place for the fencing of stolen […]
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