Every day thousands of cars travel down Edge Lane on their way in and out of Liverpool, the drivers and passengers no doubt unaware that one of the few remaining houses was the home of a woman whose death brought about a contested will and identity theft. On 20th December 1863 a spinster Mary Billinge died […]
LIVERPOOL AS A COASTAL RESORT
The people of Liverpool are lucky to have proximity to beaches at New Brighton and Crosby, but over 200 years ago they didn’t even have to go that far. Back then the town had ample bathing facilities near to Princes Dock, including the largest bath in the world, making the area popular amongst locals and […]
THE ST JAMES’ GARDENS SPRING
Overlooked by Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral is the city’s only natural spring, which was once said to be able to promote appetite and quicken digestion but had been discovered a year too late to deal with a major epidemic in the town. In 1773 the Chalybeate (meaning ‘containing iron) spring was discovered by quarrymen on the eastern side […]
THE COINERS OF VIRGIL STREET
Greatie Market has recently found a new home with land next to Virgil Street becoming a car park. However it has arrived there 180 years too late for a family who lived there and made a healthy profit from coining before being transported. Markets back then were a good place for the fencing of stolen […]
TOXTETH PARK PLOUGHING CONTEST
Nowadays the Brook House pub in Smithdown Road is a favourite haunt of students living in the locality, surrounded by streets of densely packed terraced houses. This is vastly different from the mid 19th Century when fields in the vicinity were the venue for annual ploughing contests amongst farmers. The current Brook House dates from […]
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