Liverpool Roman Catholic cemetery in Ford, Litherland contains tens of thousands of graves. It is unlikely there are any headstones commemorating anybody older than Richard Philbin, who died in 1904 at the grand age of one hundred and seven, or did he? There is no doubt that Philbin lived until a grand age for the […]
A WINTER TRAGEDY IN LITHERLAND
A grave in Liverpool’s Roman Catholic Cemetery at Ford reveals a tragic tale of boys being killed playing on the winter ice over 100 years ago. January 1905 was a bitterly cold month that saw temperatures across Britain remain below zero for a number of weeks and bodies of water freeze over up and down […]
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