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HERE is the second of Tom Slemen's ghost stories...

THE BANSHEE (1849)

BUILT between 1815 and 1816, the Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant in Liverpool began its life as the Wellington Rooms, where the merchant princes of the city held innumerable dance balls and parties. Against this setting of fashionable high society, a well-documented supernatural incident took place in the Spring of 1849.

Robert Ogden, a stout Mulberry-faced gentleman, and his friend John McLauchlan, both of Leveson Street in Toxteth, were turned out of the Wellington Rooms at almost two in the morning because of drunkenness and rowdyism.

AS LAST week's image of boating in Princes Park proved so popular, with lots of messages on the Pool of Life Twitter account, I'm sticking to the park theme with this photo taken in October 1972.

Gone fishing in Newsham Park, Liverpool - or how boys used to amuse themselves before technology saved them from a childhood of fresh air Code: zz280409lookback

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A QUICK thanks to Pool of Life reader Fortinian, who send in a link to a piece he wrote on the mass graves in Old Swan, in response to a blog post requesting information on behalf of final year history student Lydia Chadwick.

He's gone to the trouble of marking the sites on a number of ordnance survey and tithe maps as well as recording the responses to an (incorrect) theory that they are the graves of Irish immigrants massacred by the British government.

Further links relating to the mass graves, provided by Kev at Yo! Liverpool, are detailed in this blog post.

THIS interesting blog post by Hilary Burrage about Princes Park inspired me to do a bit more research.

A Flickr slideshow of photographs of Princes Park

Here are the links I found: