Entry #: 140 |
Entry Date: 2010-02-08 10:13:57
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Phil Droftel |
| Visitor Comments: Hello MIke, What an interesting site, I am checking up on Liverpool's Sefton Park and have been informed that there was once a bridge across the boating lake ( not the iron Bridge ) I cannot find reference to such a bridge though I have seen a supposed photograph of the bridge over the b oating lake wsas this Photo Sefton Park or misinformation/
Just curious to know if it existed can you describe where it was sited please Phil Droftel |
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Entry #: 139 |
Entry Date: 2010-01-17 05:48:40
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Danny Windever |
| Visitor Comments: Excellent site. I have been looking for info on Olde Hutte, the Lavaricks and Laburnum woods. All these places existed in Speke or Halewood before the Ford factory was built on the site. This Mike Royden' Local History Site has been of great help.
thanks |
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Entry #: 138 |
Entry Date: 2009-12-14 15:36:57
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Alan Harley |
Visitor Comments: What a great website! I'm only 'adopted' Scouse having lived here for 26 of my 55 years and found some of your research fascinating. Here's a 'poser' for you though.
I've been walking between Hall Road and Hightown a few times and what an interesting, busy yet almost deserted place. I know about the submerged forest and the River Alt, but where did the building rubble come from? I guess a lot of it is from post-war 'clearance' and bomb-site debris. Which areas is it from and which buildings? Some of the stonework is quite grand and the way the sea has eroded and shaped is beautiful. Do you have any info?
Keep up the good work,
Alan Harley |
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Entry #: 137 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-27 17:43:57
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allan evans |
| Visitor Comments: interest in garston history |
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Entry #: 135 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-25 15:27:19
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Margaret Owens |
| Visitor Comments: Looks to be a comprehensive site full of info - many thanks. |
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Entry #: 134 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-13 16:47:48
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Rob Ainsworth |
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Liverpool History Society |
Visitor Comments: Hello Mike,
could you please change the contact email address for the LHS on your site to webmaster@liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk as the one you publish is not longer used or accessible.
Regards
Rob |
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Entry #: 133 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-31 00:34:28
-- Edited On: 2009-10-31 13:40:00
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Phil Riley |
| Visitor Comments: Mr Mike Royden,
As I live and breathe! I thought you'd go down as the best Whitby High School teacher never to be contacted by me. Not that i'm doing anything special mind you. You may remember me from the A* destined camp that left your class by relocation to the Isle of Man (my little sister (the second best history student in Whitby history) was also lost). You told me all about the Magnetic Hill that day and i always remember that.
Anyways, fast forward 11 years Mike. I am a fully qualified accountant whilst Ali is now teaching in Sweden. I may be speaking for myself, but you were the man that inspired me to do History at Uni. You are the man that leads to Phil Riley today (i have just reread this for drunkenness and that is absolutely no exaggeration). I had some superb History lessons with you and if you get in touch one day i will see that as an absolute triumph! Mike Royden = Phil Riley as i have already said, and in the past i have come close to contacting you. my email is (removed) and my personal mobile is (removed). In my eyes you were already an Everton hero, if you're still about please please get in touch and i will visit asap.
Yours,
Phil. |
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Entry #: 132 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-24 21:25:42
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Margaret DeLacy |
| Web Site: |
Contagionism in History |
Visitor Comments: Help! I am working on a book that will include an account of the creation of the Liverpool House of Recovery (Liverpool Fever Hospital) in 1806.
In going through the Bickerton Papers many years ago, I found a note, apparently from the Dispensary minutes stating that the four physicians to the Dispensary: John Rutter, John McCartney, John Bostock (Jr.), and Robert Lewin were resigning en masse because they were angry at the way they had been treated at the "annual meeting". Was this a meeting of the Dispensary or of the Vestry? Was their resignation related to the opening of the House of Recovery or to something else (and if so what?). What did James Currie mean when he wrote to William Shepherd in 1805 that Dr. John Bostock was "seized ...of the necessity of supporting [his] personal consequence" (Thornton, James Currie, p. 368) and was it related to this resignation?
Is Bickerton's printed Medical History Liverpool, 274 correct in listing the staff of the Fever Hospital at its opening in 1806 as Physicians: Jonathan Binns, Joseph Brandreth, James Worthington and Surgeons Edward Alanson, James Gerard and Wright Gleave, or did they reprint the staff at the opening of the Dispensary (1778) by mistake? The two lists are identical and Binns seems to have been in Lancaster, not Liverpool, in 1806 (after leaving Ackworth). If this IS a mistake, who were the founding physicians to the Fever Hospital?
Is there a good source for this information? I think I have checked all the usual printed suspects but I don't have access to Liverpool newspapers from this period (I live in Oregon). Currie's Medical Reports are not helpful on the question of who opposed the House of Recovery and why.
Anyone who can help with these questions will be rewarded with a footnote!
Please mail me directly-- Margaret DeLacy margaretdelacy@comcast.net |
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