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George Edward Nurse – Victoria Cross Awardee
George Edward Nurse (14 April 1873 – 25 November 1945) was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland but grew up in Guernsey where his father was a hotel keeper. Aged 18, he signed up with the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, having previously served in the Guernsey...
Police Monument and Fire Brigade Memorial
Liverpool’s continuing growth in the nineteenth century as a major international commercial and manufacturing centre presented a huge range of fire risks, from packed warehouses full of combustible goods to densely-packed residential areas. The city’s proud...
James Dunwoody Bulloch (25 June 1823 – 7 January 1901)
This week, the intriguing story of an American who arrived in Liverpool on a secret mission and never left... James Dunwoody Bulloch was born in 1823 in Georgia, a southern US state heavily dependent on its cotton-based economy and the slaves on its plantations. He...
William Connolly VC (May 1817 – 31 December 1891)
Born in Liverpool in 1817, William Connolly was another local recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Gallantry in the face of the enemy...
Sir John Bent, Brewer and Lord Mayor of Liverpool
We're always interested in memorials that are a little bit out of the ordinary. Here's one for Sir John Bent (1793 - 1857) which caught our eye recently... Nestled within Toxteth Park Cemetery is a memorial to Sir John Bent MP. This was one of the cemetery’s earliest...
Eleanor Rigby (1895 – 1939)
Whether or not she was the real inspiration behind one of The Beatles’ most famous songs, an Eleanor Rigby really did live and die not far from where John Lennon and Paul McCartney grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. And her burial place is at the same church...