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History of Bootle | Historic Liverpool
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Double-click to zoom in, drag to move around, or use the buttons in the top left to navigate. Bootle began its history as a large, well-defined village completely separate from Liverpool. But as the city expanded, Bootle found itself well-placed during the expansion in the Industrial Revolution. It soon bulged with incoming labourers, who took advantage of the tram and rail networks to get to work at the docks, and became packed with industrial buildings of all types. The Railways Arrive; Bootle Explodes.
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Belated, retrospective book review: Culture of Capital by Nicky Allt
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Belated, retrospective book review: Culture of Capital by Nicky Allt. By Martin on February 19, 2015. In this post I’m going to take a look at a book which was published eight years ago, but which I only got a copy of over Christmas 2013. And it’s taken me another 12 months to get around to reading it! Despite (or because of) it’s age, it makes an interesting read. The Culture of Capital by Nicky Allt. In many wa...
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Garden Festival Site | Liverpool Landscapes
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Posts tagged ‘Garden Festival Site’. Comments Off on Knott’s Hole and the Garden Festival Site. Knott’s Hole and the Garden Festival Site. Knotts Hole, from the Ordnance Survey Edition of 1908. The former site of Liverpool’s historic Garden Festival was back in the news again in February, as work gets under way to restore the parkland. And kick-restart the building of flats on the site. By the time of the next ma...
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Liverpool Landscapes - Part 2
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Comments Off on Liverpool Underground: tunnels, digs and docks. Liverpool Underground: tunnels, digs and docks. Today we’re stepping way back into Liverpool’s history, and also seeing how it can tell us something about the city of today. Read more. Comments Off on Old maps of Historic Liverpool now available as phone and tablet cases. Old maps of Historic Liverpool now available as phone and tablet cases. Belated...
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Analysis | Liverpool Landscapes
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Posts from the ‘Analysis’ Category. This is a sort of short follow up to the most recent blog post on the Futurist cinema. Which was demolished against the wishes of a vocal number of Liverpool’s citizens. It was brought to my attention by a petition which was set up. I think it’s true to say that any city would value a building like the Futurist, whereas the Rapid building might not be seen in such envious...
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Heritage at Risk in Liverpool
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Heritage at Risk in Liverpool. By Martin on October 28, 2014. Great work has been done to improve the lot of certain vulnerable historic buildings in Liverpool. Four buildings have been removed from the Heritage at Risk Register:. North Warehouse, Stanley Dock Village;. The ex-Royal Insurance HQ Building, North John Street;. The Laundry and Laundry Cottage, Croxteth Park;. Parts of the rest of the cemetery are un...
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Old Maps of Liverpool | Historic Liverpool
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Old Maps of Liverpool. As a large city, Liverpool has seen a great many maps and plans made of it. Some of these maps show the wider area around the city, and may include areas as far afield as North Wales or Manchester, Lancaster. All maps can be bought as high quality prints from the Liverpool History Bookshop. Alternatively, shop via my eBay store for high quality prints of these old maps. Bacon’s Map of Liverpool (1885). Plan of Liverpool North Sheet (1890). Plan of Liverpool South Sheet (1890).
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Articles | Liverpool Landscapes
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Posts from the ‘Articles’ Category. Comments Off on Neolithic Anglesey and the Merseyside connection – a trip with the NSG. Neolithic Anglesey and the Merseyside connection – a trip with the NSG. The Neolithic Studies Group. It turns out that some can change more than you’d think. We made the most of Twitter, the hashtag for the tour being #NSGAnglesey2016. Was our organiser, who pulled together two handy sheaves...
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Maps | Liverpool Landscapes
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Posts tagged ‘Maps’. Comments Off on A compendium of Liverpool history compendia. A compendium of Liverpool history compendia. In this post I’ve collected together a few articles and pages which delve a little deeper into aspects of Liverpool history. They’re either longer, detailed articles about one topic, or they bring together a whole range of sources. Well, by the time you read this we’ll be well into ...
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Cornucopia of historical treasures: maps, talks, Ged Fagan and Peter Ellis
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Liverpool history, online sources and local history on the web. Liverpool History Book Shop. Cornucopia of historical treasures: maps, talks, Ged Fagan and Peter Ellis. By Martin on January 11, 2015. I also received a message from WordPress telling me all about my year in blogging. Compared to previous years, there were far fewer readers here ( 9,600 page views. Scottie Press team up with Ged Fagan. Peter Ellis book addition. In the Footsteps of Peter Ellis. Currently out of stock] and elsewhere). No...
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