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TRANSPORTED AFTER WATERLOO DOCK STABBING

March 11, 2015 By Steven Horton

TRANSPORTED AFTER WATERLOO DOCK STABBING

Now one of Liverpool’s many dock warehouses that have been converted to apartments, Waterloo Dock was once the site of a racially fuelled fracas that led to a foreign seaman being transported for seven years. The dock itself was opened in 1834 and designed by Jesse Hartley, who would go on to design the Albert […]

THE COINERS OF VIRGIL STREET

February 11, 2015 By Steven Horton

THE COINERS OF VIRGIL STREET

Greatie Market has recently found a new home with land next to Virgil Street becoming a car park. However it has arrived there 180 years too late for a family who lived there and made a healthy profit from coining before being transported. Markets back then were a good place for the fencing of stolen […]

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