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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, […]

SIGNS OF THINGS TO COME AT FIRST GRAND NATIONAL

April 11, 2015 By Steven Horton

SIGNS OF THINGS TO COME AT FIRST GRAND NATIONAL

The Grand National Festival attracts lots of headlines some good and some bad. Consisting of favourites under-performing, drunk spectators, stylish ones staying in the top hotels, travel chaos and horse fatalities, the reports of the first race in 1839 could easily have been written today. Races were run at Aintree between 1836 and 1838, but […]

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