May 2009 Archives

Children chase after the Lord Mayor's state coach as leaves Liverpool Cathedral with a mounted police escort after an annual service on May 29, 1949. Code: tmc290549lookback.jpg

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WHICH Merseyside figures do you think should be featured in an iconic art work that will stand in the new Museum of Liverpool?

I'm currently carrying out a survey to select whose photographs will be included in the Liverpool Map sculpture - the results will be passed to the artists who are creating it out of numerous layers of very thin glass.

MY COLLEAGUE Peter Elson has written a really interesting interview with Lord David Alton, which covers his upbringing by an ordinary English-Irish family in Essex and his life in Liverpool.

He was Britain's youngest city councillor when elected as a Liberal on Liverpool City Council.

Read it here.

And here are some photos from his career:

The second entry in the West Kirby Sailing club's Firefly race, June 22, 1961. Code: zz260406lookback-1.jpg

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HOW should Liverpool mark the centenary of the sinking of Titanic?

The city has already begun planning for the event in 2012. Tell us your ideas and we'll pass them on to the organisers.

HERE'S the second in my new fortnightly series of links on local figures. If you have any good links of your own, please share them in the comments section below.

This week the subject is philathropists:

Dr William Henry Duncan: Liverpool John Moores University's history pages; The Athenaeum on one of its most prestigious members; reference in the Journal of Medical Biography.

The red arrows display team at the 1998 Wirral Show. Code: dti113893.jpg

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THIS is the first of a series I'll be adding to the Pool of Life blog each fortnight, linking to resources on a range of historical Liverpool figures.

Political figures are the focus of this weeks list:

Bessie Braddock: Audio from the Radio Merseyside archive including an interview with Mrs Braddock herself; reference in Hansard; Port Cities biography