#Liverpool on 16th May 1863 was a day to look up.....

Some top quality streets there for you to vote for... I voted for Hope Street 😁

Added a quote about Hale in the 1850s to 'Other historic features' segment of the History of Hale page buff.ly/3OaDC6R

Got a bit obsessed with the Soloveiko Songbirds at #Eurovision2023

Definitely something I need to pore over! :D

Get lost in the alleyways of Liverpool! 😄

#Liverpool OTD - 1963: 132 bodies are found in 50 graves on Byrom Street

What a melancholy comparison. It’s time, lavishly & liberally, to replant street trees, widen pavements, rip out ugly lights & reclaim streets from their highways officer overlords Dickens Street, Toxteth, 1911 vs 2023 📸 via the great Liverpool: Then and Now who is very worth following

Remembering a wonderful Eurovision and a superb host city, I play The Leaving of Liverpool. #Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest BBC Eurovision BBC Breakfast BBC Radio 4 Today

Other things you learn while researching Liverpool: Listerine is named after Joseph Lister, who inaugurated the School of Tropical Medicine on 22nd April 1899 (and who also pioneered aseptic surgery)

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Open source urban design tries to involve the public, creating incremental designs. Kind of a user-centred design for the urban environment. noemamag.com/the-endless-po…

#Liverpool OTD - 1953: Coronation Gardens opened on the Paradise Street Blitz site. Replaced 1971

Building Stones of England: Merseyside | Historic England historicengland.org.uk/images-books/p… via Historic England

Learn how the Library's online resources can help with your house and building history research in this introductory talk and Q&A session. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:00 - 16:00 BST. eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-…

This is a fascinating 'Bombing Map' of King's Lynn - designed to train the US Air Force in 1943. Would there be one like this for Liverpool? Or was King's Lynn less of a Luftwaffe target and so safer for training? buff.ly/3MKj9n2

Finally got around to listening to this rare recording of an early (scream-free!) Beatles gig at Stowe School. Amazing stuff buff.ly/3MSiAHZ

Having only recently learned (from Kenny Brophy) that there were Garden Festivals all over the country in the 80s/90s, I'd love to collect a list like this for Liverpool!

Great article by Ronnie Hughes - lots of historical interest, and makes me want to go Down to the River soon again myself! buff.ly/3Cg2enr

Fascinating stuff about Forthlin Road and Chambre Hardman's House. Poignant in parts too! Hidden Treasures of the National Trust - Series 1: Episode 3 buff.ly/43Phcx0