In 1941 there was a non war related tragedy when a Liverpool policeman and four members of the same family were killed in a house fire in Dingle. In the early hours of Saturday 29th March that year a fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Laxey Street, Dingle (below left). Believed […]
LIVERPOOL AND MATTHEW ARNOLD
It may seem strange that a school in Liverpool is named after a Surrey born poet, but that is the case with Matthew Arnold Primary in Dingle. It is named in relation to the fact that Arnold died near there in 1888, but that was not his only Liverpool connection. Arnold was born in Laleham-on-Thames […]
DINGLE’S THEATRE
In Mill Street, Dingle there is a building that is currently empty and had been a factory for a number of decades, which was once a theatre that could hold 1,100 people. The Park Palace was opened in 1893 and designed by J H Havelock-Sutton. Initially opened as a theatre for variety shows, it was […]
VICTORIAN SELF STORAGE
In recent years large warehouses have been cropping up all over the place allowing people to de-clutter by storing their excess belongings. It’s not such a recent phenomenon though, as in Park Road in Dingle there is a large warehouse which was built in the 19th Century for exactly the same purpose. Coleman’s Depositories were […]
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