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The Lost Community
It was as a small 4 year old boy with my Dad I was first introduced to the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and over the following 60 years its magnificence as a 20th century structure seems to have grown ...
Christmas Day 1955
To Begin at the Beginning ... it is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to ...
Winklepickers
Some of us had to be somewhat innovative when it came to fashion. Historically shoes are the most important item of clothing where peer pressure in 1961 was never so great as to the style of ...
Bicycles
No-one I knew ever got a new bike but at 13 it seemed everyone had some sort of bike except me. Now at that time I belonged to the CLB…the Church Lads Brigade of St Annes Church in Aigburth Road ...
Otterspool Promenade and the City Tip
Today the Otterspool Promenade is one of Liverpool’s finest features forming part of the total esplanade stretching around 8 Km along the Riverside from Garston Docks to the City centre. A truly wonderful ...
Apprentices
It was 8am on a damp and dark January morning 1962 when the new intake of sixteen or so 16 yr old would-be apprentices including me gathered in the gatehouse of the English Electric Co Netherton. My first ...
Merseybeat and Penny Lane
Its 1960 in Liverpool. Eddie Cochran's 'Summer Time Blues' sound out of the Werlitzer Juke Box of the many coffee bars throughout Liverpool, followed by the Everly Brothers 'Cathys Clown' ... Elvis ... Chuck ...
Strawberry Field History
The Beatles song ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ was mainly drawn from early beginnings in John Lennnon’s life whilst living with his Aunt Mimi in Mendips on Menlove Avenue near Woolton Liverpool. It is ...