Merseyside Tales

Curious and Amazing True Stories from History

Ken Pye (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2025 | New edition
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80399-851-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside’s history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women ‘smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors’, the true tale of the ‘man in the iron coffin’ and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from Birkenhead – uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary facets of the area’s history and heritage.

Richly illustrated and compiled by Liverpool’s own historian Ken Pye, this book will delight residents and visitors alike.

Well known across Merseyside and the North-West, KEN PYE is the author of over ten books on the history of his home city and its city region, and is a widely recognised expert in his field. Ken’s works include Discover Liverpool and The Bloody History of Liverpool; A Brighter Hope, about the founding and history of Liverpool Hope University; two volumes of his anthology of Merseyside Tales; Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Renaissance of a World Class City; An A to Z of Liverpool and Liverpool Pubs.

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Merseyside Tales

The Wild West Comes to Liverpool
The Widnes and Runcorn Transporter Bridge
Dickie Lewis – Liverpool’s Great Bronze Nude
‘Over the Sticks’ – The Founding of the Grand National
Lockerby Road and the Fiji Island Castaway
The Mass Graves of Old Swan
Liverpool Observatory and the One O’ Clock Gun
Woolies
Monks on the Mersey
The Old Hutte
The Lepers’ Squint
The Enigmatic Eleanor Rigby
Belles, Beaus and Cups of Tea
The Meccano Man and Dinky Designer
Miniature Masterpieces
Plumpton’s Hollow and the Lion in the Wheelbarrow
Who Really Conquered Mount Everest First?
The Guinea Gap Treasure Trove
Huyton Internment Camp
The Storeton Dinosaurs
Reynolds’ Waxworks – Freaks, Frights and Fantasies
The Sanctuary Stone
The Adelphi – Liverpool’s ‘Grand Hotel’
The Hale Duck Decoy
The Pier Head Floating Landing Stages
The Legend of the Eagle and Child
Fire in the Menagerie
Molly Bushell and Her Everton Toffee Shop
The First Mersey Tunnel?
Propaganda Against Prostitution – A Questionable Deterrent
The Poisoner, the Landlady and the Brooch
Project Redsand and the Mersey Forts
Whisky Galore!
The Vampires’ Burials
Within Way and the Old Ford
A Dictator Comes to Liverpool
The Moreton Hovercraft
Doctor Solomon and the Balm of Gilead
The Man in the Iron Coffin
The Lost Lake and the Gorilla’s Lipstick
The Petrified Forest of Meols
The Pagan Carvings of Bidston Hill and the Cheshire Cat
The Liver Building Birds and Their True Designer
The Devil’s Nest at New Brighton
The Admiral’s Coffin
St Patrick’s Cross – Over 1,000 Years of Pilgrimage
The Robin Hood Stone
Mouse Pie and a Touch of Toad
New Brighton Tower and Pleasure Gardens
The Childe of Hale – The Gentle Giant

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2025
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80399-851-2 / 1803998512
ISBN-13	978-1-80399-851-0 / 9781803998510
Zustand	Neuware