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Photographic Memories: Liverpool & Merseyside
Cliff Hayes £9.99
Lavishly illustrated with fine period photographs from the world-famous Francis Frith photographic archive. (Francis Frith was a successful Victorian businessman who started out in Liverpool. Captivated by the new science of photography, he set out to photograph the towns and villages of Britain. There was a huge demand for his pictures, prototypes of the souvenir holiday postcards we know today). This book offers a fascinating portrait of Liverpool and Merseyside in years gone by. It includes a voucher for a free mounted print of your choice from the photos in the book.
Frith Book Co. (2001) ISBN 1859372341
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My Liverpool: Famous Liverpudlians Talk About Their City
Diana Pulson £9.99
Explores, through 28 new interviews, the emotional relationship which people like Peter Sissons, Beryl Bainbridge, Edwina Currie, George Melly, Rita Tushingham, have always had with Liverpool. She also talks to those who still live there, including Gerry Marsden, David Sheppard, Ray Donnelly of the Roy Castle Foundation and former Everton captain Brian Labone.
Tempus Publishing (2001) ISBN 0752421506
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Liverpool 8
John Cornelius £11.95
In the summer of 1981, Liverpool 8 (Toxteth in media parlance) became synonymous with civic unrest as racial tension, social deprivation & poverty erupted into 3 nights of street rioting. But Liverpool 8 was, and remains, one of the most vibrant, exotic & bohemian districts of the city, and this book, originally from 1982 & now republished with a new preface by the author, artist John Cornelius, captures the elusive spirit of the area & its inhabitants.
In words and drawings done on the spot, he captures beautifully that blend of fear and the promise of infinite good times that was the essence of those places … an exhilarating slice of Liverpool social history
(The Face)
Liverpool University Press (2001) ISBN 0853238774
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Scotland Road: 'The Old Neighbourhood'
Terry Cooke £8.50
Terry Cooke recalls his own childhood in the old Scotland Road and recalls the history of this Liverpool institution, an area that epitomised Liverpool and that special spirit that could survive any disaster and then recount the event with typical Scouse humour. The people there suffered poverty, squalor, strife, bombs and finally demolition. It became known worldwide thanks to the many Scotland Road men who went to sea and talked nostalgically about it.
Countyvise (2001) ISBN 0907768024
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Liverpool: It All Came Tumbling Down
Freddy O'Connor £4.95
A photographic survey and commentary on Liverpool through the eyes & lens of Freddy O'Connor, who has spent 20 years taking photographs of the changing face of the city. Much attention has been paid to the grand city centre buildings that reflect Liverpool's past as a great port - this book is about the humbler, vastly more numerous but equally important buildings that were the dwellings and places of recreation of ordinary people. An attempt to record what has happened to the places where real scousers lived, places that have disappeared under the bulldozers as the city is re-developed.
Brunswick Printing & Publishing (revised 2000) ISBN 0950980129
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The Liverpool Docklands: Life & Work in Athol Street
Pat Ayers £4.95
This book is about the people who lived and worked in the Liverpool Docklands. It uses the words and photographs of the people themselves to uncover the reality of life in a dockland community and how this changed over time.
Liver Press (1999) ISBN 1871201071
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Tiber: The History of a Liverpool Community School 1904 -1999
Tiber Parents Editorial Group £5.00
Tiber County Primary School, in Lodge Lane, Liverpool 8, was closed in July 1999, just four years short of celebrating its centenary. A group of parents from the Tiber Parents' centre decided to form an official history group to research the history of the school. They talked to past and present staff and pupils and produced this permanent reminder of both happy and sad times at Tiber C.P. School.
Countyvise (1999) ISBN 1901231194
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The Autobiography of the A Liverpool Slummy
Pat O'Mara £7.99
A fascinating picture of Liverpool life in the early twentieth century, and a remarkable account of one man's fight to escape the poverty that surrounds him.
Born in abject poverty in one of the city's worst slums, Pat O'Mara chronicles a tough childhood dominated by a brutal, alcoholic father.
Essential reading for anyone interested in social history - particularly valuable in its revelation of the techniques of survival
(the money-lenders and pawnbrokers, the false compensation claims, the tricks and frauds), and its
eye-witness account of major incidents (particularly the Lusitania Riots and the Police Strike).
Bluecoat Press (1994) ISBN 1872568157
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Tempus Publishing Local History series - Merseyside titles
mostly £9.99
Each book is packed with archive photographs that chronicle the people and places of Merseyside's past. Titles available:
Anfield Voices
Around Bebington
Bootle
Burton to Heswall
Crosby, Seaforth & Waterloo
Formby, Freshfield and Altcar
Garston
Voices of Goodison Park
Kirkby & Knowsley
Central Liverpool
Maghull & Lydiate
Mersey Ports: Liverpool & Birkenhead
Mersey Shipping: The Twighlight Years
Mersey Voices (BBC)
Around Speke
Southport
St Helens Rugby Club
Voices of St Helens
Tranmere Rovers Football Club
Wallasey & New Brighton
West Derby & Norris Green
(If not in stock already, these titles usually take about a week to order)
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