Thomas Stamford Raffles was the son of a well known local churchman and Liverpool’s stipendiary magistrate for thirty years in the second half of the 19th century. Raffles was born in London, where his parents were visiting, on 18th September 1818. His father was the Reverend Thomas Raffles, who was originally from London but had […]
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 SWIMMING POLICEMAN
The city council run Auston Rawlinson sports centre in Speke is named after one of the city’s first Olympians who combined his role as a police officer with the development of swimming as a sport. Rawlinson showed his prowess at an early age, winning the backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke titles at the Garston Schools Gala […]
DID SEAFOOD TRADER LIVE IN 3 CENTURIES?
Liverpool Roman Catholic cemetery in Ford, Litherland contains tens of thousands of graves. It is unlikely there are any headstones commemorating anybody older than Richard Philbin, who died in 1904 at the grand age of one hundred and seven, or did he? There is no doubt that Philbin lived until a grand age for the […]
WHEN LIVERPOOL’S TAXI DRIVERS EARNED FOOTBALLERS WAGES
One Hundred years ago a court case took place in Liverpool during which question marks arose over the earnings of taxi drivers who were suggested to be earning footballers wages. On 13th January 1916 at Liverpool County Court a motor company tried to reclaim a taxi that was being sold to the driver under a […]
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