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THE first book to deal explicitly with the relationship between Titanic and her home port of Liverpool has just been published.

It's written by Dr Alan Scarth of Merseyside Maritime Museum and puts the legendary White Star liner in the context of transatlantic migration from Liverpool to North America.

THESE photographs are taken from The Golden Age of Steam, a new book created by journalist Peter Elson and our photographic team here at the Daily Post.

I asked Peter to choose his favourite few images to share with Pool of Life readers...

DO YOU remember the first single you bought? Did you ever chance your arm on a £1 lucky dips - brown paper packages of five mystery singles?

For many people, hours spent in the local record shop are the best memories of being a teenager. Sadly, due to the rise of the download, few still exist.

Liverpool-born author Graham Jones, who ran a music stall at Ellesmere Port Market and used to work in HMV, has written a book documenting their story.

Click here to read an interview with him, or share your own memories below.

IF YOU were in the 17th century and decided to go off exploring Britain, which items would you not be without?

In the case of women travellers following the Home Tour, the answer was pretty much everything - they loaded their carriages with sets of china, small items of furniture and lots of servants.

Hope University senior lecturer Zoe Kinsley has written a book describing their adventures. You can read my interview with her by clicking here.

CHARLES BUCHAN'S Football Monthly magazine brought the excitement of the beautiful game into the homes of little boys even if they didn't own a television or couldn't afford tickets to the match.

A new compilation of his articles and photos, featuring Liverpool FC between 1951 and 1973, would make a lovely Christmas present for those little boys now they have grown up.

JUNE WILLIAMS was just four years old when her father bought a small estate near Chester for £3,500 and began transforming it into a zoo.

Now in her 80s, she has commissioned a book about her unusual childhood featuring many wonderful photographs of her playing with chimpanzees and holding her favourite lion cub, Christie.

THE Daily Post & Echo has produced a glossy collection of photographs from its archive, North Wales: They Way We Were.

I've picked out the ones that might ring a few bells with people from Liverpool - of childhood holidays to the beach or trips on a steam train.

'IT WAS very unhealthy, dirty and smelly," says Jane Laughton about the place that has been her obsession for two decades.

Some of it remains, less well known than the black and white 19th- century facades or the city's Roman ruins - traces of Medieval Chester in a shop's cellar or in a drainage system underneath the Cathedral green.