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HOW OLD WAS THE VICTORIAN CENTENARIAN OF EDGE LANE?

October 3, 2015 By Steven Horton

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 […]

TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG MINISTER

August 4, 2015 By Steven Horton

Two hundred and four years ago the power of the River Mersey was demonstrated when an inspiring young churchman, who had only been in the town for six months, tragically drowned whilst bathing. Born in 1791 in Hertfordshire, Thomas Spencer was working as glover’s apprentice in London when he became interested in the dissenting ministries […]

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