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.

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The expanding town was rapidly proving its independence from other influences nearby. In 1704 Liverpool was first made into a parish, for the first time separate from Walton-on-the-Hill under whose auspices it had been since it was founded. St Peter’s Church was duly built in 1699 in the orchard on the south side of Church Street. At this time this was the edge of Liverpool; Bold Street did not yet exist, and the area was open countryside. Buy your copy here. 3 – The Liverpool Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists – Emma Bennett Not only will the software always be free, but the data it creates will always be readable, or transferable to new, open formats. The software listed below will often be compatible with your current documents, too. You’ll be able to save them in open formats so that you can read them in years to come. Liverpool Journalist, Simon Hughes, takes us across the shifting tides of Liverpool’s ever-changing fortunes. From our golden era as one of the wealthiest ports in the British Empire, to Thatcher’s ‘managed decline’ of the city, this inspired depiction of the city’s resurgence will make you proud to be a Scouser.This massive growth and prosperity was, in the main, paid for by the infamous triangular trade of sugar, tobacco and slaves between the West Indies, Africa and the Americas. Being strategically placed to exploit such transatlantic trade, Liverpool soon became the fastest growing city in the world. A further charter granted to the folk of Liverpool in 1229 allowed the merchants of Liverpool the right to form themselves into a guild. In medieval England, the Merchant’s Guild effectively ran the towns and the first Mayor of Liverpool was elected in 1351. Liverpool officially became a city in 1880, by which time its population had increased beyond 600,000.

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By 1851 the population of Liverpool reached more than 300,000, many of these included Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine of the 1840s. In 1680 the first house had been built on the eastern side of the Pool, a landmark in the expansion of Liverpool. In the middle of the 19th Century, the southern regions around Duke Street, Seel Street and Bold Street were growing up as the preferred area for entrepreneurial individuals associated with the ever expanding trade Liverpool was conducting with her hinterland. On Duke Street, merchants lived in close proximity to the offices out of which they conducted business. This was also the area where a number of newspapers were published. These provided essential communication between those conducting business in the nearby town, and their equivalents in the other major cities: Manchester, Bristol, London. The darker side of this was the fact that many of these traders (in fact, almost all of those conducting business in this area at the time) made their money from the ‘West India Trade’– slavery. 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. Stonehouse, J., 2002, The Streets of Liverpool, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services, Liverpool. (Reprint of an 1869 original) Archaeology 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.

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A new town hall had been built before 1673, and Castle Street was widened in 1786. The New Exchange was constructed in 1808, marking a transition from this phase to the burgeoning industrial revolution. What do you buy the fan of the team who have won everything? Fortunately, there are Liverpool FC books on all aspects of the most successful club in English football history, from a Steven Gerrard autobiography as uncompromising as the player himself to a Jurgen Klopp book – I Feel Fine – that sings of the Kop’s love for their German manager. Buy your copy here. 4 – There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on its Own: The Long Decade: 1979-1993 – Simon Hughes. Liverpool remained in royalist hands only for a matter of weeks, when in the summer of 1644 they were defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor. Following the battle the Parliamentarians gained control over most of northern England, including Liverpool.From the first moving pictures ever captured by The Lumière Brothers in 1897, though the city’s many historical incarnations, no other city outside London ever caught the eye of Hollywood’s elite, quite like ours.

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From Anfield to beyond, any Reds supporter can now relive the highest of highs in the history of one of football’s greatest teams, all in this Liverpool book. A bounty full of 20th and 21st-century original match reports and headlines is collected and bound by hand in this book, offering an inimitable perspective on the Reds’ definitive history, which has included 6 European Cups and 19 League titles. The Haunted Liverpool series takes you on hellish investigations at the heart of the city’s horrifying history. Entitled by postcode, and including specialist spookiness including Pubs, Christmas and Halloween, discover Liverpool’s supernatural stories, as curated by local aficionado, Tom Slemen. Following the American Civil War which raged from 1861 to 1865, Liverpool’s dependency on the slave trade declined. Manufacturing industry on the other hand was booming, particularly in such areas as shipbuilding, rope making, metal working, sugar refining and machine making. Buy your copy here. 8 – 111 Places in Liverpool That You Shouldn’t Miss – Peter de Figueiredo & Julian Treuherz Here are 10 books that you need in your life if you’re a scouser… 1 – Secret Liverpool: An Unusual Guide – Mike Keating

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News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else. The Crosse Hall and the Tithe Barn, both which have modern roads carrying their names, are the point at which the upper arms of the H diverged. To the south, Dale Street gradually turned to the south-east, crossing the Pool, and passing the Fall Well on the far bank. This was the main road to West Derby and Prescot, and was the main route between Liverpool and West Derby Castles until the latter went out of use in the 13th century. Further north lay the road to Kirkdale and Walton Church, still the mother church of the parish.