T J Hughes is a Liverpool retail institution, which began in 1912 when Thomas John Hughes opened a small shop in London Road. Within twenty years it had grown to be one of Liverpool’s biggest department stores with over 400 staff. However, Hughes’s devotion to growing his business was also behind his tragic death in 1933. The […]
SUICIDE IN THE CARNARVON CASTLE
The Carnarvon Castle pub in Liverpool’s Tarleton Street was the scene of a dreadful suicide in 1894 when a man shot himself in front of horrified drinkers. On the afternoon of 26th September 1894 a 22 year old man named Charles Wood, who lodged in Oxford Street, went into the Carnarvon Castle. After ordering refreshment […]
Fire Kills Policeman and Four Family Members
In 1941 there was a non war related tragedy when a Liverpool policeman and four members of the same family were killed in a house fire in Dingle. In the early hours of Saturday 29th March that year a fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Laxey Street, Dingle (below left). Believed […]
The Pelican Tragedy of 1793
A parade on the River Mersey of two privateers one spring afternoon in March 1793 ended in tragedy when one of them sank, leading to the deaths of over one hundred people on board. Europe had been slowly descending into chaos since the French Revolution of 1789 and in 1793 France declared war on Great […]
TRAGEDY OF A BANKERS SON
In 1916 Bank Hall station was the scene of a tragic accident that left two men dead, one of them the son of the founder of one of the world’s major banking corporations in the world. At 7.30pm on 22nd December 1916 at Bank Hall station a male passenger was confused by the extreme darkness and stepped […]
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