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18/12/2024

Join me today at 11am on Liverpool Live Radio's Mid Morning Show with Roy Basnett. Today we'll be talking about the history of Liverpool Airport

🎉 Facebook recognised me as a top rising creator this week!
16/12/2024

🎉 Facebook recognised me as a top rising creator this week!

The moon looks amazing this evening
15/12/2024

The moon looks amazing this evening

The scorpion from yesterday's radio show. I was teasing it until Heather, the handler, warned me if I carried on it wou...
05/12/2024

The scorpion from yesterday's radio show. I was teasing it until Heather, the handler, warned me if I carried on it would probably sting me 🧐🦂

All the animals were brought in by Party Central Wildlife Experience Ltd who are based in Kirkby.

We had some extra guests at the Liverpool Live Radio studio this morning. Here's me with three of them, a python, skunk...
04/12/2024

We had some extra guests at the Liverpool Live Radio studio this morning. Here's me with three of them, a python, skunk and a White Faced Owl. Photos of the tarantula and scorpion may follow ...

St George's Hall Liverpool Summer 1853/54 showing 'The Lost Steps' and the pediment sculptureThis is one of the earliest...
02/12/2024

St George's Hall Liverpool Summer 1853/54 showing 'The Lost Steps' and the pediment sculpture

This is one of the earliest photographs of the building and we can date it relatively accurately due to two facts. Firstly, the steps up to the South Entrance. We know, because of newspaper reports at the time, that they had been removed by the December of 1854.

The second fact that we can use to date tbe image is the name of the photographer - it is accredited to a 'Mr Forrest'. Now, under normal circumstances, that wouldn't be overly helpful, but, in this case, we know that photographs were a relatively new medium and that a Mr James A Forrest is listed as one of the founding members of the Liverpool Photographic Society that was started in March 1853.

Using that information, and the additional fact that the shadows cast are sharp and from the sun being very high in the sky, we can hazard a pretty good guess that it is the summertime of 1853 or 1854.

The main reason the steps were removed was to make the hall look more 'clean', like the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens.

Information regarding the pediment sculpture : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RJGZTVbiippg5dRb/

Bonus Fact: The balustrades that can be seen on the plateau at the top of the steps were repurposed and used around the museum. They can still be seen there today.

I'm just watching The Batman again and had forgotten that Gotham contacts its bus services to Merseytravel
01/12/2024

I'm just watching The Batman again and had forgotten that Gotham contacts its bus services to Merseytravel

It seems that Christmas has arrived at Strawberry Field
25/11/2024

It seems that Christmas has arrived at Strawberry Field

Join me today at 11am on Liverpool Live Radio's Mid Morning Show with Roy Basnett. Today we'll be talking with Christie...
20/11/2024

Join me today at 11am on Liverpool Live Radio's Mid Morning Show with Roy Basnett. Today we'll be talking with Christie Allanson from Shut Out Rhe Light Films about their film 'Liverpool Story' that premieres tomorrow at The Philharmonic Hall

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I saw a preview 'Liverpool Story' by Shut Out The Light FilmsIt's a meditation on the city over a year done with vignett...
15/11/2024

I saw a preview 'Liverpool Story' by Shut Out The Light Films

It's a meditation on the city over a year done with vignettes of everyday life and voice overs of people who call it home. I loved it.

The premiere is at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the 21st Nov

Info here https://www.shutoutthelight.co.uk/liverpoolstory

Today, rather than write about a famous winner of the Victoria Cross, or in fact a holder of any medal of gallantry I'm ...
11/11/2024

Today, rather than write about a famous winner of the Victoria Cross, or in fact a holder of any medal of gallantry I'm going to remember a lowly private in the East Lancashire Regiment. A grunt, you could say.

His name is Matthew Rooney. There’s nothing much that has been written about him, if anything at all, but he’s important to me as he is my great-uncle.

We don’t have any photographs of Matty. Nor do we know much about his story after he departed for France, apart from details that we have gleaned from his war records and some information from one of his friends who was with him on the front, but I’ll do my best to do this young man justice with this small commemoration.

Pte Matthew Rooney

Matthew was born in June 1899 to Thomas and Mary Rooney in 7 Molyneux Street, Bootle. He signed up to serve his country at Seaforth Recruitment Station sometime in 1916, and was assigned to the 11th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment (The Accrington Pals). He departed to France not long after.

Matthew was involved in several major battles throughout the war and was transferred to a few different regiments during his time as his platoons and battalions lost men, or he was injured and awaited a new posting. He served alongside the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Cheshire Regiment, the Manchester Regiment and the Royal Lancashire Regiment.

On the 4th of September 1918, Matthew's battalion was moving northwards through France after the Battle of Amiens and became involved in the Battle at the River Warnave. It was then, we think, on either the 4th or 5th of September, that Matty was critically wounded. One of his friends, who was with him at the time, told my great grandmother that Matty's leg was blown off during an artillery assault. My great grandmother had begged the poor lad to tell her what had happened even though he didn't want to talk about it. She was beside herself wanting to know why her son hadn't returned home.

We do know for certain that Matthew was transferred to a field hospital at Lambersart where he was treated before dying of his wounds. He passed away on 12th September 1918.

Matthew Rooney was originally buried in a cemetery in Lambersart near to where he died, but was later exhumed and reinterred in Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery in Fleurbaix, France.

When he signed up in 1916, Matthew had only just turned 17. He believed in the cause so much that he lied to the recruitment officer about his age (the minimum age to serve abroad was 19)

He died only two months before the end of the war.

RIP Private Matthew Rooney

You can tell it's nearly Christmas when Bella and Bertie return to The Albert Dock
11/11/2024

You can tell it's nearly Christmas when Bella and Bertie return to The Albert Dock

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