{"id":2,"date":"2011-10-23T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:37:59","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/echoesofliverpool.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool Families: Liverpool Histories<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
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This site commemorates the lives of ordinary people who lived in the streets in and around Liverpool City Centre, often in courts, cellars and tenements set against the backdrop of the docks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n<\/em>We hope you enjoy browsing our site. Here you can\u00a0share the memories of real people who lived through the social changes of the movement out of the city centre\u00a0to the outlying estates. We have also collected some other interesting resources about Liverpool. We have original sources about William Ratcliffe, the Docker VC<\/a>,\u00a0and are the first\u00a0to record\u00a0his correct date of birth which had been wrongly recorded by official sources since 1884.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have\u00a0a wonderful first-hand account of life in\u00a0the Liverpool court houses\u00a0\u00a0in the\u00a01920s and\u00a0’30s\u00a0from\u00a0Jim Fitzsimons<\/a>. Jim wrote the history of St Augustines parish which contains a wealth of detail about families who lived in the parish.\u00a0\u00a0We include a transcript <\/a>of this history in full.\u00a0We were\u00a0privileged to be able to interview Jim a couple of years ago and were saddened to hear of his death at the age of ninety five in April last year. \u00a0His family and ours have known each other for over a century because of the close-knit communities that existed around the\u00a0Scotland Road\u00a0area.\u00a0Both families,\u00a0like many others from that era, left when the slum housing was demolished in the nineteenth thirties and were re-housed close together in the new estates of Huyton. There are very few people\u00a0still living\u00a0who grew up in the\u00a0Liverpool courts. Jim’s death felt like the end of an era.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our family’s journey mirrors that of so many others, escaping famine and starvation in Ireland in the 1840s,\u00a0surviving appalling conditions in poor housing close to the docks in Liverpool, and then a second diaspora to the council estates in the suburbs\u00a0almost a century later. We think that story is worth preserving. Of course Liverpool is a multi-cultural city with a range of communities who have long-standing roots and we have tried to include other narratives, particularly where they have intersected with our own family and we have personal stories and photos. If you can help us with some of yours we will be grateful. This site is an ongoing project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have some interesting snippets about nineteenth-century Liverpool including\u00a0in-depth original research about the\u00a0tragic Starvation Case <\/a>of 1855. Our Liverpool Family History Resources <\/a>page includes a review of many useful sites with links to help you with your Liverpool family history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We maintain this site because we love Liverpool and its history. If you have any stories to tell or comments to make please\u00a0<\/a>contact us at info@echoesofliverpool.com<\/a>.\u00a0We would be delighted to hear from you and we do our best to respond to e mails.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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