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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 […]

RE-OPENING OF THE SAILOR’S HOME

April 21, 2015 By Steven Horton

RE-OPENING OF THE SAILOR’S HOME

The gates to the Liverpool Sailors’ Home that once stood in Canning Place are now in a prominent position in Liverpool One at the  corner of Hanover and Paradise Streets. The home had two openings, one in 1850 and the another on 21st April 1862, after a two year closure due to fire. Opened in 1850, […]

FIRE AT HEAPS MILL

July 4, 2014 By Steven Horton

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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