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FALKNER STREET’S ABOMINABLE TRADERS

May 20, 2017 By Steven Horton

FALKNER STREET’S ABOMINABLE TRADERS

In Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter customers sit at the pavement cafes on the corner of Falkner Street and Hope Street sipping coffee, drinking beer and eating snacks and light meals. They do so in complete ignorance of an illicit trade that went on within spitting distance in 1888 when the local community were shocked to learn […]

THE CHOLERA RIOTS OF 1832

May 29, 2015 By Steven Horton

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 […]

HEARSE DRIVER STEALS CIGARS

April 6, 2015 By Steven Horton

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

March 11, 2015 By Steven Horton

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

March 5, 2015 By Steven Horton

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 […]

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Steven Horton has been a freelance writer for 20+ years. He is the author of 7 books has written for the Times, Liverpool Echo, numerous fanzines and websites, and also appeared on Radio Merseyside/City Talk, ITV News and Sky Sports News. ..read more

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