The Stanley Arms pub in Roby was once the venue for an athletics day held for staff of the London & North Western Railway Company who lived and worked in the Liverpool area. The event took place on 16th June 1866 on a field next to the pub, with the landlord providing all refreshments and […]
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 […]
SUICIDE INQUEST AT WAVERTREE’S OLDEST PUB
The Coffee House is probably the oldest pub in Wavertree, having been listed in the Ale House Recognizances as early as 1777. A key meeting place, it was the scene in 1883 of an inquest following a local tragedy when a man committed suicide on Dunbabin Road. The pub was a popular day out from […]
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