Ultimately, I want you to be able to follow the founding and development of Liverpool, the traces history has left on the present city, and what you can find close to you that reflects its rich built heritage.

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Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery - by Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony TibblesLiverpool officially became a city in 1880, by which time its population had increased beyond 600,000.

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Thanks for your comments about my history blog. I am fascinated by Walton / Fazakerley areas having lived and worked there. I hope to add a bit more soon! The Liverpool of early September 1939 was a thriving port and bustling city of over 800,000 people. World War Two changed this forever Between the 27th June 1940 and the 10th January 1942 Hitler’s Luftwaffe rained down death and destruction on the city, reducing many fine buildings to either burntout shells or piles of rubble. During the first week of May 1941 alone the raids killed 1,453 people and seriously injured around another thousand. Don’t miss – Each chapter of this Secret Liverpool travel guide book corresponds to a different part of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discover.Liverpool Then and Now takes the reader on a journey through a city once considered the ‘second city of empire’. It also highlights the significance of places that enable people to come together and collectively participate in music events. Liverpool in Old Photographs brings to life the history of a famous port and city over the past century. Penny Lane and Bold Street – or whether by keeping the streets as they are we would be reminded of how history played itself out.

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This comprehensive, full-color guidebook describes all the architecturally significant buildings in Liverpool, the city selected as European Capital of Culture for 2008. At the beginning of the 17th century, the population of the town was around 2000, and slowing increasing as it recovered from the ravages of the previous 200 years. Liverpool was beginning to build on its potential, with civic efforts producing the first Town Hall and Gilde on the High Street (a thatched building until 1571), and the first grammar school, contributed by John Crosse, are first mentioned in the early 16th century. The right to collect tithes from the local population belonged to the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey until the Molyneux bought it from them around this time, and built their tithe barn on Moor Street, on the corner of Cheapside. Origin of the name: The ‘pool’ part of the name is now almost always said to refer to the Pool, the inlet which flowed where Whitechapel and Paradise Street now stand, and into the Mersey. However, the ‘liver’ or ‘lever’ element of the name is much more highly debated.The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine ‘Dales’ as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a new life in the New World. Major Reds players have contributed monumentally to Liverpool’s reputation since their founding in 1892. In addition to all the Owens, Gerrards and Salahs, legends of the Shankly and Paisley eras like Ray Clemence, Graeme Souness and Kenny Dalglish are among the players featured who make this Liverpool history book a must-have keepsake. There’s no better edition around to match the multitude of Liverpool’s football legacy. Liverpool’s growing wealth was reflected in the many impressive public buildings and structures that appeared throughout the town including the Philharmonic Hall built in 1849, the Central Library (1852), St George’s Hall (1854), William Brown library (1860), Stanley Hospital (1867) and Walker Art Gallery (1877), to name but a few. Stanley Park opened in 1870 and Sefton Park followed in 1872.