by Sarsfield Blog | Apr 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you take a look around your local cemetery, you’ll notice that some images seem to crop up time and time again. Over the coming months, we’ll be explaining some of the symbolism on memorials and monuments to the dead. Tying in with this and the 100th anniversary of...
by Sarsfield Blog | Apr 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Sir James Allanson Picton’s legacy lives on in the recently-restored Picton Reading Room, part of Liverpool Central Library in William Brown Street, Liverpool. Opened in 1879, this was the first public building in Liverpool to feature electric lighting; and is now a...
by Sarsfield Blog | Apr 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Frederic John Walker was born 3 June 1896 in Plymouth, Devon. He joined the Royal Navy at the young age of 13; and it’s fair to say that the sea was his life till the day he died. His early career saw mixed fortunes: he chose anti-submarine warfare as his specialist...
by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
This impressive and unusual memorial in Anfield Cemetery bears a touching picture of Iorwerth Ap Owen on the side and was erected in his memory by his parents after his death on May 7th 1917. Iorwerth Ap Roland Owen was born on July 22nd 1896 to Dr Roland and Mrs...
by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
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....
by Sarsfield Blog | Feb 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sarsfield Blog | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Sarsfield Blog | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
