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Fire Kills Policeman and Four Family Members

March 29, 2016 By Steven Horton

Fire Kills Policeman and Four Family Members

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 […]

LIVERPOOL AND MATTHEW ARNOLD

March 6, 2014 By Steven Horton

LIVERPOOL AND MATTHEW ARNOLD

It may seem strange that a school in Liverpool is named after a Surrey born poet, but that is the case with Matthew Arnold Primary in Dingle. It is named in relation to the fact that Arnold died near there in 1888, but that was not his only Liverpool connection. Arnold was born in Laleham-on-Thames […]

DINGLE’S THEATRE

May 23, 2013 By Steven Horton

DINGLE’S THEATRE

In Mill Street, Dingle there is a building that is currently empty and had been a factory for a number of decades, which was once a theatre that could hold 1,100 people. The Park Palace was opened in 1893 and designed by J H Havelock-Sutton. Initially opened as a theatre for variety shows, it was […]

VICTORIAN SELF STORAGE

May 22, 2013 By Steven Horton

VICTORIAN SELF STORAGE

In recent years large warehouses have been cropping up all over the place allowing people to de-clutter by storing their excess belongings. It’s not such a recent phenomenon though, as in Park Road in Dingle there is a large warehouse which was built in the 19th Century for exactly the same purpose. Coleman’s Depositories were […]

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