Landmarks
March 13, 2014 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 4 Comments on The Chantry Well, Huyton
From The Ancient Crosses of Lancashire by Henry Taylor: These words occur on the 1848 six-inch ordnance map close to some old cottages, about one hundred yards to the north... read more
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Hidden History
March 8, 2013 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 6 Comments on Alder Hey barracks and the Remains of War
Those of you trying to drive past Sainsbury’s on East Prescot Road in West Derby back in March 2013 may have found themselves diverted around a police bomb squad. A... read more
Landscapes
December 3, 2012 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 5 Comments on Stanley Park, landscape of leisure
North Liverpool is an area that I’ve become much more interested in since I started Historic Liverpool. It’s seen such changes in its time, and been home to every part... read more
Archaeology
November 21, 2012 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 2 Comments on Lunt Meadows Mesolithic settlement
Ron Cowell of the Museum of Liverpool discovered a Mesolithic settlement at Lunt Meadows in 2012. Ron had been leading an excavation there on behalf of the Environment Agency. Archaeologists... read more
June 1, 2012 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 4 Comments on Liverpool’s Electric Tramway
This article all about transport: roads, rail and that in-between technology, trams. Like a lot of Liverpool’s landscape, the trams were both pioneering and behind the times. The first Act... read more
May 25, 2012 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 1 Comment on Waterloo, Victoria and Trafalgar Docks: Liverpool at the forefront of dock technology
When reading about Liverpool’s ever-expanding dockland landscape, you can’t help but be drawn into the technological advances. These too helped create the dock landscape we see today. The map here... read more
May 3, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 13 Comments on Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels
Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels are the maze-like remains of excavations under Edge Hill. They are the work of Joseph Williamson under the streets of east central Liverpool, constructed in the early... read more
Natural Features
May 3, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | Leave a Comment
Wind dropped Shirdley Hill Sand across a vast swathe of land in the millennia since the last glaciation. The sand lies along the Sefton Coast several kilometres inland, and has... read more
May 3, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 3 Comments on Merseyside Uplands
The Merseyside Uplands include the higher ground to the east of Croxteth, and strips at Mossley Hill and elsewhere. They have had an important influence on Merseyside and Liverpool throughout... read more
May 3, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 17 Comments on River Mersey
The valley of the River Mersey was created during the last ice age. Thick glaciers moved inland from what is now the Irish Sea, carving deep parallel iceways. The iceways... read more
May 3, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 7 Comments on The Pool: Liverpool’s beginnings
The Pool is arguably one of the major reasons for Liverpool’s existence. King John was looking for a suitable place from which to launch ships to Ireland, and Liverpool fit... read more
January 12, 2011 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 3 Comments on Woodland on Merseyside and the Mersey Forest
The year 2011 was declared as the International Year of Forests by the UN (see the Echo for some of Liverpool’s plans). The very modern Mersey Forest has seen 8... read more
Buildings
August 31, 2010 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 2 Comments on Edge Hill: the First Ever Passenger Station
Edge Hill has had two stations in its history. The earlier of these was the first passenger station in the world, along with Liverpool Street in Manchester. The first station... read more
August 26, 2010 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | Leave a Comment
The childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney are massively popular tourist attractions. George Harrison’s and Ringo’s homes (like 9 Madryn Street) don’t get so much as a blue... read more
July 12, 2010 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | Leave a Comment
The former site of Liverpool’s historic Garden Festival saw the latest phase of its history in 2010, when work got under way to restore the parkland and kick-restart the building... read more
April 22, 2010 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 11 Comments on Lewis’s Department Store
David Lewis founded a small shop selling men’s and boy’s clothing in 1856. The sale of women’s clothes began in 1864, and by the 1870s Lewis’s Department Store was in... read more
November 16, 2008 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | 4 Comments on Liverpool ‘one of the earliest seaside resorts’
Liverpool's modern tourist trade traces its roots back to the 18th century, earlier than Blackpool and Southport
April 16, 2008 / July 15, 2025 by Martin Greaney | Leave a Comment
The earliest dock on the waterfront was buried for years under a car park, until it was excavated in 2007.
