The Grand National Festival attracts lots of headlines some good and some bad. Consisting of favourites under-performing, drunk spectators, stylish ones staying in the top hotels, travel chaos and horse fatalities, the reports of the first race in 1839 could easily have been written today. Races were run at Aintree between 1836 and 1838, but […]
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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