Somewhat overshadowed by its near neighbours the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth and St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, the Toxteth Tabernacle continues to serve the local community for the purpose it was intended nearly 150 years ago. The Tab, as it is commonly known in the local area, was opened in 1871 by William P Lockhart. […]
SCHOOLBOY’S PREMONITION OF HIS OWN DEATH
During the summer of 1927 a boy from the Blue Coat School in Wavertree told his friends there would be a large crowd for his funeral as they passed a church. They told him not to be silly but shockingly they were back at the same place just a few weeks later for the boy’s burial. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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