One of Liverpool’s oldest pubs is the Childwall Abbey hotel in the heart of the old Childwall village, with parts of the building believed to be over 500 years old. A thriving local nowadays, it was once a popular rural retreat from densely populated Liverpool but one man’s trip out there in 1860 led to […]
THE DUNBABINS OF CHILDWALL
A long road that straddles Childwall and Wavertree recalls a time when the area was farmland not the mass of semi detached houses that it has been since the 1930s. Dunbabin Road, which stretches from the Childwall Triangle end of Taggart Avenue to WooltonRoad and is 800 metres long, remembers Dunbabin farm that was there […]
THE WAPPING DOCK FRUIT FIGHT
The Wapping Dock warehouse is a prominent feature to motorists driving along Wapping and The Strand in Liverpool city centre. Designed by the same engineer who built the Albert Dock, it stands next to Wapping Dock and was the scene of an extraordinary event in 1929 when dockers fought each other for a day’s work. […]
BRAZIL’S EMPEROR COMES TO LIVERPOOL
With the World Cup about to start in Brazil, that country’s influence in Liverpool is more prevalent than ever before. There are two Brazilian players at Liverpool FC, restaurants such as Fazienda Rodizio, Bem Brasil and Viva Brasil in the city centre, while the annual Brazilica festival is the UK’s biggest Samba carnival. It is […]
LIVERPOOL AND MATTHEW ARNOLD
It may seem strange that a school in Liverpool is named after a Surrey born poet, but that is the case with Matthew Arnold Primary in Dingle. It is named in relation to the fact that Arnold died near there in 1888, but that was not his only Liverpool connection. Arnold was born in Laleham-on-Thames […]
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