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The Tragedy of T J Hughes

April 24, 2019 By Steven Horton

The Tragedy of T J Hughes

T J Hughes is a Liverpool retail institution, which began in 1912 when Thomas John Hughes opened a small shop in London Road. Within twenty years it had grown to be one of Liverpool’s biggest department stores with over 400 staff.  However, Hughes’s devotion to growing his business was also behind his tragic death in 1933. The […]

LIVERPOOL BROADCASTER RAY MOORE

April 17, 2019 By Steven Horton

LIVERPOOL BROADCASTER RAY MOORE

Broadcaster Ray Moore, whose voice was familiar to millions of radio listeners first thing in the morning, was born and raised in Liverpool and died at the age of just 47 in 1989. Born in 1942, the first seven years of Ray’s life were spent in Cherry Close, Walton, where he began his education at […]

MATHER AVENUE – ARTHUR STANLEY MATHER

September 3, 2018 By Steven Horton

MATHER AVENUE – ARTHUR STANLEY MATHER

One of the main thoroughfares of south Liverpool is Mather Avenue. It was named after Arthur Stanley Mather, a solicitor and alderman who lived in Woolton. Mather was born in 1842, the son of J P Mather of Bootle Hall. He was educated at Rugby School and in 1865 was articled to Messrs Simpson, North […]

WILLIAM SEWELL CRIMEAN WAR HERO

August 25, 2018 By Steven Horton

WILLIAM SEWELL CRIMEAN WAR HERO

William Sewell, one of the heroes of the Crimean War who was injured in the Charge of the Light Brigade, is buried in Woolton’s St Peter’s Churchyard. Born at Dorking in Surrey, Sewell enlisted with the 13th Light Dragoons at Westminster in 1851 at the age of nineteen. The cavalry regiment was sent to Crimea […]

DAME MAY WHITTY

May 28, 2018 By Steven Horton

Liverpool born actress Dame May Whitty, who did not become a Hollywood star until she was in her seventies, was the first film and stage actress to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Whitty was born Mary Whitty at 8 Catharine Street on 19th June 1865.  Her paternal grandfather was Michael James Whitty, […]

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