The Liverpool Institute in Mount Street may be best known as the school where Paul McCartney and George Harrison attended in the 1950s, but eight decades earlier it was the venue for three lectures by American author and humourist Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain’s real name was Samuel Longhorne Clemens and […]
THE GREAT GEORGE STREET CONGREGATION
Due to it being next to the largest Chinese Arch in Europe the a building dating from the 1840s on the corner of Great George Street and Nelson Street doesn’t quite get as much recognition as it deserves. The first church on the site opened in 1812, and had been built for dynamic young preacher […]
LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE’S LAST PUBLIC HANGING
Although public executions were a common event outside Kirkdale gaol after it opened in 1819 until they were stopped in 1864, there were very few in the centre of Liverpool. This was because capital crimes were tried in Lancaster, with any necessary executions taking place there. There were occasional exceptions though. In 1715 several Jacobite […]
WALTON’S ZOO
Today it is just one of many takeaways in the Walton area, but Didi’s in Rice Lane is situated in a building with plenty of history, being the last remaining trace of a zoo which was there in Victorian times. The first zoological gardens in Liverpool were situated off West Derby Road and opened in […]
LIVERPOOL’S OLDEST STATION
It looks just like any other suburban local railway halt but Broadgreen station, situated a stone’s throw from the end of the M62 motorway, is one of the oldest in the world and has a history of famous visitors and tragic events. Opened in 1830 as one of the stations on the Liverpool & Manchester line, […]
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