by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 2, 2015 | Blogs
Lifting, Storing, Updating and Re-affixing a Family Gravestone Following a Recent Death While a death in the family is always a sad and distressing time, some things can bring a small measure of comfort. Some families decide to purchase a family plot in a burial...
by Sarsfield Blog | Jan 26, 2015 | Blogs
‘Saint of the Slums’ – 1786 – 1860 Liverpool’s ‘Saint of the Slums’, as she was later dubbed, was born Catherine Seward in Londonderry, 1786. She came to Liverpool in 1795 with her mother, having lost her father and sister in a shipwreck, and was apprenticed in a...
by Sarsfield Blog | Jan 19, 2015 | Blogs
Born in Carmarthen on 24 February 1845, Alfred Jones began his career in shipping at an early age. He was apprenticed at twelve to the African Steamship Company in Liverpool and spent numerous years rising through the business, reaching the role of manager by the time...
by Sarsfield Blog | Oct 20, 2014 | Blogs
Memorial to Frank Hornby, the Liverpool inventor of Meccano, Hornby trains and Dinky Toys Born in Liverpool on 15 May 1863 at 77 Copperas Hill, Frank Hornby was the son of a provision merchant. Growing up, he didn’t like school much and often played truant, finally...
by Sarsfield Blog | Oct 13, 2014 | Blogs
“No one person can make a theatre. The vital thing is teamwork – from the callboys and cleaners upwards.” – but if anyone helped create the Liverpool Playhouse, it was Maud Carpenter. After a spell at the Kelly’s Theatre in Paradise Street, Maud Carpenter joined the...
by Sarsfield Blog | Oct 6, 2014 | Blogs
Remembering a Liverpool sculptor ‘privileged never to have had an art education’ Born in Liverpool in 1929, Arthur left school at 14 and took up an apprenticeship at Cammell Laird’s shipyard, where he contributed to the construction of the Ark Royal. On being finished...
