by Steven Horton | Jun 8, 2017 | Blogs
In April 2017 a was launched to raise awareness of the role played by Chinese workers during the First World War. The eighteen month project aims to leave a lasting legacy of remembrance for an estimated 100,000 Chinese Labour Corps who assisted British forces on the...
by Steven Horton | May 21, 2017 | Blogs
Billy Scott, who kept goal for Everton when they won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906, has recently had his grave rededicated in Anfield Cemetery. Born in Belfast in 1882, Billy won the Irish League and Irish Cup with Linfield before joining Everton in 1904. An...
by Steven Horton | Apr 29, 2017 | Blogs
Over the years there are believed to have been nine Jewish cemeteries in Liverpool. Currently only two are open to new burials and of the others, some are in a poor state and others no longer there at all. The Liverpool Jewish Archives are held by the Liverpool Record...
by Steven Horton | Apr 7, 2017 | Blogs
The Grand National steeplechase was first run at Aintree in 1839 and except for the war years and the void race of 1993, has taken place there ever since. The first winner of the Grand National was Lottery, ridden by Jem Mason. He was unable to repeat the success the...
by Steven Horton | Mar 28, 2017 | Blogs
Everton are the older of Merseyside’s two professional football clubs, so it is not surprising there are a number of graves of former players and managers in local cemeteries. However there are also plenty of others buried in cemeteries and churchyards both in...
by Steven Horton | Mar 21, 2017 | Blogs
Liverpool City Council announced on 15th March 2017 that within a year there will be no more room for Muslim burials in the city’s cemeteries. As such, a new section in Allerton Cemetery is to be developed specifically for those of the Islamic faith. Once the...
