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SCHOOLBOY’S PREMONITION OF HIS OWN DEATH

June 15, 2015 By Steven Horton

SCHOOLBOY’S PREMONITION OF HIS OWN DEATH

During the summer of 1927 a boy from the Blue Coat School in Wavertree told his friends there would be a large crowd for his funeral as they passed a church. They told him not to be silly but shockingly they were back at the same place just a few weeks later for the boy’s burial. […]

SUICIDE INQUEST AT WAVERTREE’S OLDEST PUB

February 10, 2015 By Steven Horton

The Coffee House is probably the oldest pub in Wavertree, having been listed in the Ale House Recognizances as early as 1777. A key meeting place, it was the scene in 1883 of an inquest following a local tragedy when a man committed suicide on Dunbabin Road. The pub was a popular day out from […]

THE DUNBABINS OF CHILDWALL

February 9, 2015 By Steven Horton

THE DUNBABINS OF CHILDWALL

A long road that straddles Childwall and Wavertree recalls a time when the area was farmland not the mass of semi detached houses that it has been since the 1930s. Dunbabin Road, which stretches from the Childwall Triangle end of Taggart Avenue to WooltonRoad and is 800 metres long, remembers Dunbabin farm that was there […]

ENGLAND’S SMALLEST HOUSE IN A PUB

May 22, 2013 By Steven Horton

ENGLAND’S SMALLEST HOUSE IN A PUB

The Cock & Bottle pub in Wavertree High Street has absorbed into it what was once the smallest house in England. The pub’s address is 93 Wavertree High Street, with the house formerly being 95. The house was built in the middle of the 19th Century in what was a passageway.   At 6 feet wide […]

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