April 2009 Archives

Bells recast arrive at the Liverpool Parish Church, Our lady and St Nicolas from Loughborough, on August 1, 1952.

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REGULAR visitors to the Walker Art Gallery will already be familiar with Emily Tinne, the wife of an Aigburth doctor whose large collection of clothing now belongs to the National Museums Liverpool archive.

The exhibition Passion for Fashion several years ago was such a success that NML is now showing more of her belongings at Sudley House.

Baggage handling and mail bags at Liverpool Lime Street in January 1967.

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HE MAY be 94, but Frederic Franklin is not hanging up his ballet shoes just yet. The Wavertree ballet dancer recalls his memories in this wonderful feature by Peter Elson.

Here he is as Friar Laurence in the recent production of Romeo and Juliet with Julie Kent and Marcelo Gomes.

LIVERPOOL'S Lost Dock is being opened to the public for the first time in 200 years.

Te first glimpse for centuries of the world's first commercial enclosed wet dock will be unveiled tomorrow.

The Old Dock opened in 1715 and marked the beginning of Liverpool's rise to become an international seaport. Its construction was a technological innovation and represented the start of Liverpool as a Maritime Mercantile City.

Read more about the opening here, and here are some more pictures of the dock.

HOW should Liverpool remember one of its most famous sons?

The city council is looking for a way to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Ewart Gladstone.

Four times British prime minister, he was born at 62 Rodney Street on 29 December 1809.

THIS month the public art work Dream is being put into place on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St Helens.

It has been chosen by former miners, including Gary Conley, above, who is now a resource manager for adult social care for St Helens Council. The piece of coal he's holding is from a seam 2,000 feet deep and over three miles from the pithead.

HERE are some useful links for researching Liverpool's history:

National Museums Liverpool blog - behind-the-scenes access to NML's Merseyside venues written by curators, museum directors, volunteers and marketing staff.

Liverpool History Society - useful info on new local history books, anniversaries and access to the society's archive.

A VERY genteel prang (now an RTA) at Liverpool Police's Mather Avenue training centre, in March 1948, as Miss Kathleen Wilkes, one of our first five policewomen takes down this fellow's "particulars" to equip herself for going on the Mersey beat.

This fake accident involved a Lanchester saloon, left, and an MG 10 or Y-Type.

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IT'S Grand National day tomorrow so here are a few timely links to features written over the years on the horserace's history...

National Museum Liverpool's Stephen Guy on his own memories of reporting on the race

William Hill's history of the Grand National and the race's famous moments.