Re-opening next year as a hotel the Municipal Annexe, where many of the Militants policies were implemented in the 1980s, was once the headquarters of the Liverpool Conservatives. They hosted many events attended by senior politicians long before those of a different ideology gained a foothold in the building. The foundation stone for the Conservative […]
DOME INSTEAD OF A SKYSCRAPER
The first of the ‘Three Graces’ on Liverpool’s waterfront was completed in 1907 when the Port of Liverpool Building, then known as the Dock Offices, opened. The final product though was far different than first envisaged, as a plan for a twenty storey skyscraper was rejected and a dome added to the chosen design late […]
NO FLIES IN LOAF OF ROYAL BAKERS
One of Liverpool’s most popular real ale pubs is the Fly in the Loaf in Hardman Street, so named as it is situated in the old Kirklands Bakery, who used that phrase as their slogan. This certainly was the case of a bakery that was renowned for its Vienna Bread and supplied members of the […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST BALLOON FLIGHT
Princes Dock was the place where many emigrants boarded vessels to take them to the New World and where cruise liners berth today. However more than 200 years ago it was the setting for a much different form of transportation when Vincenzo Lunardi flew overhead in a hydrogen balloon. The first balloon flight was in […]
WHEN BUFFALO BILL CAME TO NEWSHAM PARK
Newsham Park has recently played host to Royal De Luxe’s Giant Spectacular, but 123 years ago it was the venue for two weeks of stagecoach races, shooting displays and robbery re-enactments as Buffalo Bill rolled into town. William Frederick Cody earned his title by killing 4,000 buffalo in eighteen months whilst hired to provide meat […]
THE WAPPING DOCK FRUIT FIGHT
The Wapping Dock warehouse is a prominent feature to motorists driving along Wapping and The Strand in Liverpool city centre. Designed by the same engineer who built the Albert Dock, it stands next to Wapping Dock and was the scene of an extraordinary event in 1929 when dockers fought each other for a day’s work. […]
WELSH EISTEDDFOD IN LIVERPOOL
Last weekend saw Newsham Park taken over by the Giants, but this isn’t the first time one of Liverpool’s parks has been the subject of a unique event. In 1929 Sefton Park hosted the Welsh Eisteddfod with a record crowd attending on the first day. Previous Eisteddfod’s had been held in the city in 1884 […]
MUNICIPAL DAMAGE
Liverpool City Council’s Municipal Building in Dale Street suffered some bomb damage in World War II, leading to the rear wall having to be rebuilt. Some 80 years earlier, a wall of the building was damaged on a much smaller scale, leading to a youth ending up in court. Designed by the Corporation Surveyor John […]
RIOT AGAINST GEORGIAN ORANGEMEN
Orange Lodge marches have been occurring in Liverpool for nearly 200 years. The first took place as long ago as 1819 when the marchers were attacked by Irish Catholic immigrants in Dale Street, with the local media reporting that it was lucky nobody was killed. Throughout the 18th Century Orange associations formed across England as […]
FIRE AT HEAPS MILL
There is a debate going on at present over whether a disused Victorian mill in the Baltic Triangle should be demolished to make way for new apartment blocks. If developers get their way, they will succeed where fire failed over 150 years ago. Joseph Heap first started milling rice on Park Lane in 1780, although […]
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