Every day thousands of cars travel down Edge Lane on their way in and out of Liverpool, the drivers and passengers no doubt unaware that one of the few remaining houses was the home of a woman whose death brought about a contested will and identity theft. On 20th December 1863 a spinster Mary Billinge died […]
THE FEVER OUTBREAK OF 1861
Liverpool World Museum’s Egyptian collection is now in storage until the Autumn of 2016 while renovation work is carried out to the display area. Many of the exhibits were donated by local goldsmith Joseph Mayer in 1867 meaning the museum had the largest collection of Egyptology in Britain outside London. However earlier that decade there […]
MAN V FOOD IN THE LIVERPOOL TOWER
In St John’s Gardens there is a plaque in both English and French commemorating over 400 prisoners who died in captivity in Liverpool during the Napoleonic Wars and were buried in the churchyard of the church that stood there at the time. They had been interred at the Liverpool Tower in Strand Street on the […]
LIVERPOOL AS A COASTAL RESORT
The people of Liverpool are lucky to have proximity to beaches at New Brighton and Crosby, but over 200 years ago they didn’t even have to go that far. Back then the town had ample bathing facilities near to Princes Dock, including the largest bath in the world, making the area popular amongst locals and […]
THE ST JAMES’ GARDENS SPRING
Overlooked by Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral is the city’s only natural spring, which was once said to be able to promote appetite and quicken digestion but had been discovered a year too late to deal with a major epidemic in the town. In 1773 the Chalybeate (meaning ‘containing iron) spring was discovered by quarrymen on the eastern side […]
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