The Grand National Festival attracts lots of headlines some good and some bad. Consisting of favourites under-performing, drunk spectators, stylish ones staying in the top hotels, travel chaos and horse fatalities, the reports of the first race in 1839 could easily have been written today. Races were run at Aintree between 1836 and 1838, but […]
DOGS LONG GONE
A social club, market and school in the north of Liverpool give no indication of what was there beforehand. All three were the site of greyhound tracks, a sport that was once extremely popular in the city but hasn’t taken place here for over forty years. Back in the 1930s there were three tracks within […]
THE FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL AT A CRICKET GROUND
Liverpool Cricket Club in Aigburth hosts occasional County Championship matches for Lancashire and has the oldest pavilion at a first class cricket ground. It also hosted the first international football match in Liverpool in 1883, giving the city a unique place in terms of the English national team. Founded in 1807, Liverpool Cricket Club is […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST FLOODLIT FOOTBALL MATCH
Nowadays it is Liverpool South Parkway station, a major bus and rail interchange for the south of the city and connection to the airport but up until 1990 the site was Holly Park, home of South Liverpool FC and venue for the first match to be played under floodlights in Liverpool, back in 1949. The […]
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