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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ashton Building #Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#Liverpool 12:15 p.m. 28th July 1964 - The Bachelors appear at NEMS Great Charlotte Street
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
28th July 2010 - the Museum of Liverpool’s first object was installed. The Liverpool Overhead Railway Motorcoach No. 3 liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/firs...
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#OTD - 1982: Nessie Shankly opens the 'Shankly Lounge' at the Liverpool Supporters Club, Lower Breck Road. Billy Liddell looks on
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Liverpool OTD - 2013: Official re-opening of the restored Florrie by Prince Charles. #HeritageLiverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1967: Topping out ceremony at the Playhouse extension
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 2016: Conferment of Honorary Freedom of the City of Liverpool upon those who lost their lives at Hillsborough. #JFT97 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Hillsborough 96 posthumously awarded Freedom of Liverpool
The 96 fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish are awarded the Freedom of Liverpool at a special ceremony.
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This would have been a sight... 1939
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1981: Roy Castle is at Owen Owen
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1939: The first military barrage balloon ever to be flown on Merseyside is demonstrated at Sheil Park
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Unfortunately lost to the Blitz, the Adelphi Bank, 19 South John Street, Liverpool, opened on the 28th March 1864. Became Martins Bank in 1928
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The new Hartley Locks development looking good as it nears completion... #Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
239 Westminster Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool. Carries the initials JAH, and a date of 1883 . Doctor James Alexander Hendry was a local doctor, and visiting surgeon to executions at Kirkdale Gaol. He passed away here in 1903. The house continued to be a doctors surgery for many years
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
At 6:00p.m. on 27th March 1915 a passenger ship of Liverpool’s Elder Dempster Line left port bound for West Africa. Many of the crew were from Liverpool. Falaba was torpedoed with the loss of 104 people, inc. Leon Thrasher, the first US citizen killed by the actions of a U-boat
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1941: Bombing at Lace/Adlington Street results in 65+ deaths, including 12 from the Neary family
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1986: Willey Russell's new play Shirley Valentine opens at The Everyman
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1911: William Patrick Hitler is born to Alois Hitler and Brigid Dowling Hitler. The family lodge at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, which was amongst the last properties bombed in the city (1941)
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
First licensed as Rothwell's Hotel in 1862, the Caledonia is now closed. Once included a grand billiard room
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
No.2 Rodney Street, Liverpool, was built c1830, and for over 80 years was residence of the Bickersteth family. Dr. E. R. Bickersteth died here on 7th March 1908, leaving £342,955..... the equivalent of some £44million today!
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
She would be renamed Royal Daffodil in 1999, MV Overchurch came into service on 4th March 1962. Retired 2013... but is now moored in Canning Dock as the Daffodil bar & restaurant
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#Ghostsigns Aigburth
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Woolton Reservoir opened in 1864. The Water Tower is later than the Grade II Listing suggests, the foundation stone being laid in 1911
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tidespring A136 being skillfully maneuvered on the river again....
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#Liverpool 28th Feb 1884 - 1,000 yearling trout are released into Sefton Park Lake 🎣🐟
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
27th February 1964
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
#LiverpoolBorn - Opera singer Alberto Remedios, 27th Feb 1935 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vL1...
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Alberto Remedios sings; You'll Never Walk Alone with his Brother Ramon & Friends.
YouTube video by Richard Remedios
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We have the Eros Fountain, and Peter Pan, in Sefton Park to thank him for. Mr. George Audley passed away on 25th Feb 1932, sadly before the fountain was unveiled.
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Parliament Place, Liverpool. Built c1837. The granite setts were re-laid in 1991
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#LiverpoolBorn - George Harrison, 25th February 1943, 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree. #Beatles
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#LiverpoolBorn - Jean Alexander, 24th Feb 1926, Rhiwlas St., Toxteth. Best known Hilda Ogden #CoronationStreet
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Museum of Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
....who doesn't love a world full of experts
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Consecrated On This Day - 1914: new St. Barnabas Parish Church #PennyLane
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1920: First voyage as a British liner of ex-German steamer the 'Imperator'. For Cunard, to New York
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#LiverpoolBorn - artist Albert Ernest Brockbank, 20th Feb 1862. Passed away in 1958 aged 95, at Broadgreen Hospital
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#Wavertree Town Hall was opened on this day 1873 #HeritageLiverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Opened On This Day - 1871: Toxteth Tabernacle, Park Road
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Phil Neal, born 20th Feb 1951, signed for #LFC in 1974
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1957: Bill Hayley & His Comets at the Odeon, London Road
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Victoria Gallery & Museum @victoriagallery.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It's the start of #LondonFashionWeek, any excuse to break out this amazing photo of Liverpool College of Art fashionistas strutting past the Victoria Building in April 1967. It's #ThrowbackThursday, but make it fashion!
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#LiverpoolBorn - Ken Jones, 20th Feb 1930, Everton. He met his wife, Sheila Fay, in Liverpool at the Merseyside Community Theatre Group. They married in 1964 at St. Polycarp's Church, Everton
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In 1864 Miss Agnes Jones took over as Nursing Superintendent at Brownlow Hill Workhouse #Liverpool , pioneering the use of trained nurses in such institutions. She Passed away on 19th Feb 1868. A stained glass window in the Lady Chapel of the Anglican Cathedral pays tribute
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Liverpool
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1945: Vera Lynn, 'the Forces Sweetheart', at the Liverpool Empire. She also visited an exhibition at TJs London Road
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Liverpool OTD - 1965: Midnight charity bowling competition at Ambassador Bowl, Wavertree - Joe Henderson, Frankie Vaughan, Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Gerry Marsden 🎳🎳
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liverpool1207.bsky.social @liverpool1207.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Continued rapid progress on Leeds Street. Good to see. #InvestInLiverpool
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