One of Liverpool’s oldest pubs is the Childwall Abbey hotel in the heart of the old Childwall village, with parts of the building believed to be over 500 years old. A thriving local nowadays, it was once a popular rural retreat from densely populated Liverpool but one man’s trip out there in 1860 led to […]
FLATS NEARLY DEMOLISHED AFTER FOUR YEARS
There have been plenty of housing schemes that pleased the planners far more than those who had to live in them and were knocked down after just a few decades. However there was one development which is passed by thousands of motorists every day where the residents were more than happy to see it saved […]
THE CHOLERA RIOTS OF 1832
Behind the church building now known as St James in the City on the corner of Upper Parliament Street and St James Place, once stood a building where the Liverpool Cholera Riots of 1832 began. After a major outbreak in eastern Europe, cholera arrived in England in October 1831 when a ship from the Baltic […]
MERSEY COLLISION BETWEEN STEAMERS
As Liverpool gears up for Cunard’s Three Queens lining up on the River Mersey at the same time, it has to be hoped that there is no repeat of what happened 150 years ago today, when two ferries collied just as they set off across the river. On Sunday 21st May 1865 at around 430pm […]
RE-OPENING OF THE SAILOR’S HOME
The gates to the Liverpool Sailors’ Home that once stood in Canning Place are now in a prominent position in Liverpool One at the corner of Hanover and Paradise Streets. The home had two openings, one in 1850 and the another on 21st April 1862, after a two year closure due to fire. Opened in 1850, […]
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