In 1941 there was a non war related tragedy when a Liverpool policeman and four members of the same family were killed in a house fire in Dingle. In the early hours of Saturday 29th March that year a fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Laxey Street, Dingle (below left). Believed […]
THE SWIMMING POLICEMAN
The city council run Auston Rawlinson sports centre in Speke is named after one of the city’s first Olympians who combined his role as a police officer with the development of swimming as a sport. Rawlinson showed his prowess at an early age, winning the backstroke, freestyle and breaststroke titles at the Garston Schools Gala […]
DID SEAFOOD TRADER LIVE IN 3 CENTURIES?
Liverpool Roman Catholic cemetery in Ford, Litherland contains tens of thousands of graves. It is unlikely there are any headstones commemorating anybody older than Richard Philbin, who died in 1904 at the grand age of one hundred and seven, or did he? There is no doubt that Philbin lived until a grand age for the […]
The Pelican Tragedy of 1793
A parade on the River Mersey of two privateers one spring afternoon in March 1793 ended in tragedy when one of them sank, leading to the deaths of over one hundred people on board. Europe had been slowly descending into chaos since the French Revolution of 1789 and in 1793 France declared war on Great […]
WHEN LIVERPOOL’S TAXI DRIVERS EARNED FOOTBALLERS WAGES
One Hundred years ago a court case took place in Liverpool during which question marks arose over the earnings of taxi drivers who were suggested to be earning footballers wages. On 13th January 1916 at Liverpool County Court a motor company tried to reclaim a taxi that was being sold to the driver under a […]
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