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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
MATHER AVENUE – ARTHUR STANLEY MATHER
One of the main thoroughfares of south Liverpool is Mather Avenue. It was named after Arthur Stanley Mather, a solicitor and alderman who lived in Woolton. Mather was born in 1842, the son of J P Mather of Bootle Hall. He was educated at Rugby School and in 1865 was articled to Messrs Simpson, North […]
WILLIAM SEWELL CRIMEAN WAR HERO
William Sewell, one of the heroes of the Crimean War who was injured in the Charge of the Light Brigade, is buried in Woolton’s St Peter’s Churchyard. Born at Dorking in Surrey, Sewell enlisted with the 13th Light Dragoons at Westminster in 1851 at the age of nineteen. The cavalry regiment was sent to Crimea […]
DAME MAY WHITTY
Liverpool born actress Dame May Whitty, who did not become a Hollywood star until she was in her seventies, was the first film and stage actress to be made a Dame of the British Empire. Whitty was born Mary Whitty at 8 Catharine Street on 19th June 1865. Her paternal grandfather was Michael James Whitty, […]
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