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A 1960s Merseyside Childhood
Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’, his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the ‘swinging’ sixties.
18th November, 2020 in Local & Family History, Society & Culture
The cobbled streets of Leeds were paved with gold, industrial gold, that only found its way into entrepreneurial pockets of men clad in stiff white collars, frock coats, and gold Albert watchchains draped across their plump abdomens. Shoeless street urchins, gambolled from cobble…
3rd October, 2019 in Local & Family History
Turn the clock back sixty years in Wirral and take a bus ride on a Birkenhead Corporation bus in its blue and cream livery between Bebington and Birkenhead. This was a road journey of roughly three miles but was also a virtual journey through time – or at least one through the tw…
