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THE LIVERPOOL CONNECTION TO KARL MARX’S TOMB

April 22, 2022 By Steven Horton

THE LIVERPOOL CONNECTION TO KARL MARX’S TOMB

The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, London, was sculpted by a Liverpool man. The son of an antiques dealer, Laurence Bradshaw was born in Liscard on 1st April 1899. He was baptised at St Peters Church in Church Street and by 1901 the family were living at 17 Eleanor Road in Bootle. They […]

W. G. GRACE AT SEFTON PARK CRICKET CLUB

April 21, 2022 By Steven Horton

W. G. GRACE AT SEFTON PARK CRICKET CLUB

W. G. Grace, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, was the star attraction of a charity match played at Sefton Park cricket club in 1877. W. G. Grace played for a United South XI in a three day match against the Sefton Park club.  At the time W. G. Grace, who was then […]

SHEILA HEANEY – FORMER AIDE-DE-CAMP TO QUEEN

April 20, 2022 By Steven Horton

Rodney Street is famous for its medical practitioners, but there are many other notable people who have lived there. One of these was Sheila Heaney MBE, a high ranking army officer. Sheila was born in Liverpool in 1917 the daughter of a surgeon living at 68 Rodney Street. Educated at Huyton College, she studied sociology […]

Hugh Stowell Brown

January 28, 2021 By Steven Horton

The statue that stands opposite Liverpool’s Philharmonic pub on Hope Street is of Hugh Stowell Brown. He was a minister at the nearby Myrtle Street Baptist for 39 year prior to his sudden death in 1886. Hugh Stowell Brown was born on Sunday 10 August 1823 in Douglas on the Isle of Man. His father […]

William Faulkes – Organist at St Margaret’s Church Anfield

January 27, 2021 By Steven Horton

William Faulkes was a composer and organist at St Margaret’s Church Anfield for over 40 years prior to his death in 1933. William was born in Liverpool in 1863 and was taught music by his sister. He became a chorister at St Margaret’s Church aged ten and continued his studies in theory and practical organ […]

Charles William Wilson – The Scouser who Mapped Jerusalem

January 26, 2021 By Steven Horton

In the 1860s an Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem was carried out. It was overseen by Charles William Wilson, who had been born in Liverpool in 1836. Charles William Wilson was born in Wesley Street, which was off Upper Hill Street in Toxteth, on 14th March 1836. He attended Liverpool College and then boarded at Cheltenham […]

Jeanette Altwegg – Liverpool’s Figure Skating Gold Medallist

February 21, 2020 By Steven Horton

 Britain’s first individual gold medallist in the Winter Olympics was Jeanette Altwegg in 1952. The 21 year old from Aigburth in Liverpool triumphed in figure skating at Oslo’s Bislett Stadium,  then announced her retirement from the sport the following day. Jeanette’s father was a Swiss cotton merchant for the East India Company, while her mother […]

Mr Dead The Liverpool Coroner

May 2, 2019 By Steven Horton

Mr Dead The Liverpool Coroner

George Cecil Mort, whose surname translates from French to English as ‘dead’, was the Liverpool Coroner for twenty five years prior to his retirement in 1953. Mort was born in 1880 in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In 1905 he obtained a medical degree at the University of Manchester then  four years later got his diploma in public […]

The Tragedy of T J Hughes

April 24, 2019 By Steven Horton

The Tragedy of T J Hughes

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 […]

LIVERPOOL BROADCASTER RAY MOORE

April 17, 2019 By Steven Horton

LIVERPOOL BROADCASTER RAY MOORE

Broadcaster Ray Moore, whose voice was familiar to millions of radio listeners first thing in the morning, was born and raised in Liverpool and died at the age of just 47 in 1989. Born in 1942, the first seven years of Ray’s life were spent in Cherry Close, Walton, where he began his education at […]

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