Author, PhD and devotee of Liverpool history. Because the past is not just about kings and queens.
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15 Oct 2021
You can now buy the 2nd Edition of my book from Amazon amazon.co.uk/ROBERT-MARSDEN-…
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1 Nov 2022
This is what Hope Street, Liverpool looked like in 1750 and this is what it looks like today.
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29 Oct 2022
Low Hill Cemetery, Everton (also known as Liverpool Necropolis) was a graveyard between 1825 and 1898. After headstones and memorials were removed in 1914 the area re-opened as Grant Gardens. Today 80,000 people still lie buried beneath this public park.
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28 Oct 2022
St John's Gardens, Liverpool. After St John's Church was demolished in 1899 its graveyard was turned into a public park. The headstones were removed but the graves remain. It is thought that 27,000 people are buried beneath this beautiful city greenspace.
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26 Oct 2022
Fishermen's cottages, Otterspool. This colourized picture was taken in the early 20th century. Before the area became the Liverpool City rubbish tip and before Otterspool Promenade was built.
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17 Oct 2022
A Rainy Day - St George's Plateau, Liverpool 1900s
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17 Oct 2022
Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe and, fittingly, home to the largest Chinese Arch outside of China. ❤️
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18 Oct 2022
Robert Cain began life in Cork and ended it in Liverpool.
The tour, new to #LIF2022, takes you on a journey of Cain’s life, via some of his most prominent buildings.
23, 24, 25 Oct, 5.30pm
£15
Begins at Liverpool Philharmonic Dining Rooms
Book Now: bit.ly/LIFtalksandtours
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17 Oct 2022
This Sunday 23rd October from 7pm in partnership with Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies
Rearranged 175th Irish Famine Commemoration
Live trad tunes from The Lowlands
Scrip reading of ‘A Most Uncommon Man’
Watching of ‘2600’
Refreshments included and bar and shop open ☘️
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8 Jul 2022
After 153 years of lying in an unmarked grave in Anfield Cemetery, Detective Robert Marsden finally received a headstone. Rest in peace Robert.
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13 May 2022
The old Alms Houses, Shaw's Brow, Liverpool. In 1692 Dr Sylvester Richmond gave 100 shillings for the building of alms houses (charity shelters) for the relief of poor sailors' widows. Other alms houses were built in Hanover St, Castle St and Moor St.
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30 Sep 2020
Couple smoking clay pipes in a doorway of Liverpool Custom House, 1885.
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18 Mar 2022
Liverpool Orphan Asylum, Myrtle Street by WG Herdman. 0pened in 1843 it housed up to 160 girls. On admission orphans had to provide a birth certificate which proved that their parents were married and that they had been baptized. No girls were admitted from the workhouse.
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12 Mar 2022
The One O'clock Gun, Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead. From 1867 this gun fired each day at 1pm for ships to set their clocks by. Its boom could be heard for miles around and tradition says if you were born within hearing distance of the One O'clock Gun you were a true Scouser.
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8 Mar 2022
Lime Street, Liverpool c1880. Right up until the 1960s it was common to see Liverpool women carrying bundles or baskets on their heads. Most often it was washing being carried to and from the 'wash house'.
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5 Mar 2022
Liverpool 1851. A brothel visit could result in sailors being robbed or 'skinned' of all their clothing. Naked sailors were often seen running through the streets as they headed back to ship. One unfortunate was chased by a mob who "shouted and hooted and pelted him with mud."
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27 Feb 2022
Graving dock, Liverpool. When ships' hulls were cleaned copper nails and wire would fall into the mud. At every low tide during the 1840s, hundreds of starving Irish people could be seen scouring the bottom of the dock trying to find any copper they could carry away and sell.
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20 Feb 2022
In 1850 the Morning Chronicle described a group of starving Irish emigrants as they landed in Liverpool fleeing from the potato famine.... "care-worn and sallow, the women bare-footed and squalid and encumbered with children... the men redolent of Skibbereen or Connemara".
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18 Feb 2022
The Orangery, Allerton Tower, Liverpool. This structure is all that remains of the palatial residence of Hardman Earle (1792-1877) Liverpool slave trader and early railway investor.
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