Category: Work & Industry
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Graham Middleton remembers the former location of stables on Tunnel Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th October 2014 | 2 Comments
What is a short distance for adults, can resemble an eternity of travel away for children. This is very true for Graham’s former relation to the far end of Chatsworth Street. Today, not only this estimation of spatial distance has changed. Graham also recalls the former usage of today’s Tunnel Furniture Company, as stables for the horses connected with the railway.... Read more
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Graham Middleton remembers his mother’s struggles to maintain the family financially
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 7th October 2014 | 0 Comments
Graham’s parents did not earn a lot of money when he was a child. In fact, during the majority of his childhood, the family was entirely dependent on his mother’s small salary. The little she made from her work at Littlewood’s and the Automatic sometimes wasn’t even enough to cover the rent. Graham takes us to the redeeming of Provident Cheques at Collier’s on London... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry, Shops & Shopping, Social Life
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Edge Hill Loco Shed 4 May 1968 Last Day of Steam 2
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th July 2013 | 0 Comments
An audio recording of Edge Hill Loco sheds on the last day of steam, Saturday 4th May 1968, featuring the Black Five 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry and some other engines, 48168, on Friday 3rd May at 6.25 taking goods from Canada Dock to Edge Hill. Recorded by Keith Rose.... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Sounds & Ambience
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Edge Hill Loco Shed 4 May 1968 Last Day of Steam
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th July 2013 | 2 Comments
An audio recording of Edge Hill Loco sheds on the last day of steam, Friday 4th May 1968. In this recording we hear the Ayrshire Yeomanry and some other engines recorded by Keith Rose. The image is of a Black Five 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry taken by Tony Laycock sometime late in 1967 with an old Brownie camera at Edge Hill Depot the day it was transferred to Patricroft MPD prior to Edge... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Sounds & Ambience
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Fred Foley remembers his father working at the docks
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Foley remembers his father’s occupation as a ship repairer at the docks and how he would only be employed for short periods of time.... Read more
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Pamela Spencer talks about her time working at University Halls of residence, Liverpool.
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Pamela Spencer recalls her time working as Bursar at University Halls of residence, Liverpool.... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives, Work & Industry, Change & Communities
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Edge Hill Station Sheds. Worker William Edward Jones.
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 0 Comments
William Edwards Jones (Bill) Worked on the Railway for 45 years Lost his leg in the first world war aged 22 year but returned to Liverpool and worked at Edge Hill until retirement Grandfather to Thomas Jones... Read more
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Steam Train at Edge Hill Station May 1968 Engine 45156 with Railwaymen
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 1 Comments
Steam train at Edge Hill Station in May 1968. The number on the engine is 45156... Read more
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Steam Train at Edge Hill Station May 1968 Engine 45156
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 0 Comments
Steam train at Edge Hill Station in May 1968. The number on front of the engine is 45156... Read more
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Train at Waterloo Tunnel Mouth Edge Hill Station 29071971 MDHB 37
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 0 Comments
Train at Waterloo Tunnel Mouth Edge Hill Station 29071971 MDHB 37 taken by Keith Rose... Read more
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Train on Dock Road Waterloo Crossing 29071971 MDHB 37
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 0 Comments
Image of a train on Dock Road/Waterloo Crossing taken by Keith Rose 29 July 1971. M D H B 37 can be seen on the side of the train... Read more
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Rathbone Road Goods Yard 1959
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 1 Comments
Image of Rathbone Road Goods Yard 1959... Read more
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Edge Hill Sheds, end of steam trains 18051968
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 1 Comments
Edge Hill Sheds on 18 05 1968, the end of steam.... Read more
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Steam Train driver. Canada Dock to Edge Hill 03051968
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 23rd July 2012 | 0 Comments
Photograph of train driver taken by Keith Rose whilst recording the sound of the train on a journey from Canada Dock to Edge Hill http://www.edgehillstation.co.uk/resources/steam-engine-recording-canada-dock-to-edge-hill-1/... Read more
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Fire Station, Durning Road
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Image of the abandoned fire station on Durning Road, Liverpool Taken 2008... Read more
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Steam Train Recording Canada Dock to Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Steam train recordings by Keith Rose. Canada Dock to Edge Hill Engine 48665 at 18:30 on 03/05/1968 ... Read more
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Fred Risk talks about his work for a company making life-saving equipment
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Risk mentions how, like his mother, he worked at Meccano for 23 years: after it closed, he got a job in Birkenhead for a company which made life-saving equipment. Among the equipment he designed were life rafts for the RAF, the Royal Navy and civilian shipping, fire clothing for the RAF and merchant ships, and submarine escape suits for the Navy. In this job, Fred went to all sorts of... Read more
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Fred Risk recalls the members of his family who worked on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 13th March 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Risk remembers how he would go round to visit his aunts. He next tells of how his cousin was a plate-layer, responsible for laying down the lines, his uncle and wheel-tapper, responsible for tapping wheels to make sure there were no cracks in them, his grandfather a shunter and then a signalman, and another uncle worked in the Birkenhead Goods Depot. Birkenhead Town Station was built by the Joint... Read more
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Margaret Cropper describes the Lime Street switchboards on which she worked
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper explains that she wore earphones when working on the Lime Street switchboard, and would pull the plugs up and push them into the socket if the light came on and announce “Lime Street”: calls from Mr. Byron, the railway boss, would take priority over all others. After the plugs had been put in, she would press a switch to start ringing until the caller answered, and then the... Read more
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Margaret Cropper gives more memories about working at Lime Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 24th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper provides more recollections of her days working on the switchboards at Lime Street station. She married a man from the Parcel Office, and she remembers how he would play Frank Sinatra to her down the phone! She also mentions how her colleagues Irene Kinder and Doreen Barrett would talk on the phone for a very long time, and how once Vera Scout spilt a drink on her switchboard... Read more
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Margaret Cropper remembers the romances that developed over the Lime Street switchboards!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper goes into more detail about her work on the Lime Street switchboards. All the calls they would receive were inquiries from the public, and there were six lines from the switchboards to the Enquiry Office. They would also have to send calls to the Parcel Office and the Complaints Department. She and her three colleagues, who all got on very well with each other, worked in isolation from... Read more
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Margaret Cropper remembers her work as a telephonist at Lime Street station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Margaret Cropper remembers how she began working as a telephonist at Lime Street station at the age of 17, having moved to Liverpool from her native Yorkshire two years earlier, and stayed in the role for five years. She worked with three other women, Vera Scout, Irene Kinder and Doreen Barrett, and would begin working early in the morning: sometimes they would flick the switches off because they could not cope... Read more
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Joe McHenry remembers the night school at Liverpool Exchange station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Joe McHenry explains how, at night school, he was given the Blue Book of railway rules and regulations. Once, however, the Blue Book got him into trouble: a man phoned and asked to transfer some returned empty crates, which were, according to the rules, charged at a higher rate than new empty crates, and when Joe insisted on the higher rate the customer got angry and complained to the superintendant,... Read more
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Joe McHenry recalls his work as a telephonist at Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Joe McHenry recalls how his worked as a telephonist on the switchboards at Edge Hill goods yard: he had to keep a record of the wagons that entered and left the yard, and type invoices. Then he went to night school at Exchange station, and then did his National Service at an unusually early age when he learned of the poor pay prospects on the railway... Read more
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Pamela Parry talks about her great-grandfather, who worked at Edge Hill as a brakesman
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Pamela Parry explains how her great-grandfather worked as a brakesman at Edge Hill until he was killed in an accident at gridiron sidings in 1907. He lived at the now-defuct Spekeland Vale with his wife, Elizabeth McEvoy, and four children - one of whom was Pamela’s own grandmother. She thinks that they must have been a happy family until tragedy struck... Read more
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Astrid Massey tells of how her father received a commendation
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Massey mentions how her father received commendations from Canada and the United States for his kindness, though she does not go into detail about exactly what he had done... Read more
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Astrid Massey remembers her work as a barmaid
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Masset talks about how she worked as a barmaid at the NUR Branch Five headquarters in Deane Road, and would make shirts for the men when they attended the functions there: she also remembers the skirts and shoes that she wore. Astrid next mentions working for the Co-Op chemist in Lockerby Road... Read more
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Astrid Massey talks about her father’s work on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 17th February 2012 | 0 Comments
Astrid Massey talks about her father, Leonard Rose. She explains that he began working at Edge Hill as a van boy at the age of 14, before becoming a porter and then a goods guard during the Second World War, when he worked on trains bringing ammunition and prisoners of war. One day, they received a visit from then-then Princess Elizabeth, when Leonard was required to walk in front of the... Read more
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Troops marching on Tunnel Road during the 1911 Transport Strike
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 1 Comments
Photograph submitted by Richie from Nerve Magazine. The images shows a view looking North towards the station on Tunnel Road, with the corner of Spekeland Road just in view. On the street are troops on horseback trying to maintain control during the famous Liverpool General Transport Strike of 1911. The strike involved dock workers, sailors and railway workers. It paralysed trade in Liverpool during the summer of 1911... Read more
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Troops at Edge Hill Station during the 1911 Transport Strike
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Photograph submitted by Richie from Nerve Magazine. The images shows a view looking North towards the station from the junction of where Upper Parliament Street meets Tunnel Road and Smithdown Road. The street is filled with policemen and horses with, what we can assume are, strking workers. The 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike involved dock workers, sailors and railway workers. It paralysed trade in Liverpool during the... Read more
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Fred Wallace’s coal wagon at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Photograph submitted by Mo Clougher whose father Fred Wallace ran a coal business on Tunnel Road. This picture shows his coal wagon.... Read more
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Steam Train at Edge Hill coal yard
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Photograph submitted by Mo Clougher whose father ran a coal business on Tunnel Road. The picture shows her grandfather Thomas Wallace who was an engine driver.... Read more
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Photograph of Mr Hughes next a coal wagon at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Photograph submitted by Mo Clougher whose father, Fred Wallace, ran a coal business on Tunnel Road. This photogrpah depicts Mr Mughes.... Read more
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A photograph of the coal yard at Edge Hill Station
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 6th January 2012 | 0 Comments
A photograph submitted by Mo Clougher whose father, Fred Wallace, owned a coal business on Tunnel Road.... Read more
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Mo Clougher recalls her father, Fred Wallace, a coal merchant on Tunnel Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 5th January 2012 | 0 Comments
Mo remembers going to work with her father who owned the coal office at 29a Tunnel Road.... Read more
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The Fire Guards’ Handbook
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 16th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a handbook issued to fire guards during the Second World War, giving advice on how to deal with air raids... Read more
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Staff of Edge Hill Station circa.1925
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 14th December 2011 | 1 Comments
A photograph donated by Pat Brownbill of Edge Hill Station staff circa.1925. Richard Brownbill, Pat’s husband’s Grandfather, is on the middle row 4th from left. He worked at Edge Hill Station for most of his working life as a porter, ticket collector and he was also a signalman. Richard’s son, Tom Brownbill, also worked on the railway as a cleaner, fireman and driver at Edge... Read more
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Railway workers at Lime Street
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 13th December 2011 | 1 Comments
An image of railway workers at Lime Street Station around the 1920s. Submitted by William Payne.... Read more
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Safety at Work and Working Hours
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This page explains two of the key factors in the establishment of trade unions. The first section, “Safety at Work”, deals with the high death rate on the railways in the nineteenth century, caused by long working hours and the obsession of the railway bosses with saving money at all costs - an attitude that is certainly prevalent today, in the current debates on health and safety legislation, and claims... Read more
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The Creation of the National Union of Railwaymen
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This page deals with the formation of the NUR. The photograph at the top shows the signing of the fusion agreement in February 1913. The text explains how the NUR originally had 180,000 members - most came from ASRS, with 23,158 from the General Railway Workers’ Union and 4101 from the UKPSS. By 1914, it boasted 273,000 members, the majority of British railway workers, “such was the inspiration caused by united leadership”. The NUR declared a... Read more
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The Foundation of the ASRS
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This page describes the formation of the first successful railway trade union, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. It describes Michael Bass, the Liberal MP who set it up. The ASRS came about when Bass, a shareholder in the Midland Railway, was approached by some of his Derby constituents in the summer of 1871 to urge the directors to reduce working hours: Bass raised the question both at shareholders’ meetings and... Read more
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Before the Days of the Union
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This page sums up what conditions were like for railway workers before trade unions were formed. It begins with a circular from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1852, which makes the employers’ hard-line attitude clear: “The directors are in principle opposed to combination for any description for the purpose of interfering with the natural course of trade. They think that masters and men [note the view of railway... Read more
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1836 strike
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This page from the NUR’s pamphlet The Railwaymen mentions the first strike on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. A number of employees had threatened to strike unless the wages of the firemen were increased: when the management refused, the driver John Hewitt reiterated his determination to strike and was sacked, and most of other drivers and firemen struck in protest at his treatment - the “first railwayman to be... Read more
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The Railwaymen
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 9th December 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the front page of a leaflet issued by the National Union of Railwaymen, commemorating the history of the Union. The NUR was formed in 1913 following the merger of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the United Kingdom Pointsmen and Signalmen’s Society and the General Railway Workers’ Union. However, it did not represent white-collar workers (represented by the Railway Clerks’ Association) or most drivers and firemen, who preferred... Read more
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Celebrate Green Transport Festival Summer 2001
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 14th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a guide and map issued by Merseyrail for the Green Transport Festival in 2001... Read more
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Grove and Deepdene instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This pamphlet was issued by the Railway Executive of British Railways in December 1950, to take effect as of 1st January 1951. It instructs BR’s employees in how to deal with trains designated Grove or Deepdene... Read more
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District Operating Instructions page 4
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
The final page of the District Operating Instructions, with acknowledgements and distribution... Read more
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District Operating Instructions page 3
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we have more instructions for dealing with the Grove and the Deepdene, and the information that points are to be scotched or clipped. Then there is a list of railway staff, and the need for an examiner to make sure the work is completed satisfactorily... Read more
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District Operating Instructions page 2
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is page two of the District Operating Instructions. It starts with arrival and departure times for services between Edge Hill and Riverside, followed by instructions for dealing with particular locomotives. Next we have the list of the rolling stock pulled by the Deepdene and Grove trains, and the two pilotmen dealing with services to and from the Dock Road... Read more
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District Operating Instructions page 1
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
These are District Operating Instructions for staff of the London Midland Region of British Railways, issued at Lime Street on 29th May 1951. It begins by mentioning the absolute importance of keeping the notice private. It deals with Deepdene and Grove trains, authorising inspectors to be on duty to supervise the running of the two trains, with additional duties for the yard master at Edge Hill: it is necessary to inform... Read more
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Special Notice page 3
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the final page of instructions. It gives instructions as to which trains are to be altered to avoid clashing with the special train. For example, the two o’clock service from Hull to Lime Street is not to leave Edge Hill platform four until the special train has departed platform three. It ends with a coded list of people who are to acknowledge receipt of the notice... Read more
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Special Notice page 2
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This continues the instructions in the previous entry, and gives specific stations, including Edge Hill, Waterloo Goods and Liverpool Riverside, through which the special Deepdene train will pass, and what employees must do at each station. Waterloo Goods station lay to the west of the Waterloo Tunnel and remained in operation until 1964... Read more
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Special Notice page 1
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a set of instructions issued at Crewe station on 30th May 1951 to staff of the London Midland Region of British Railways and deals with the working of trains referred to by the code word “Deepdene”, and gives a list of the trains that run under that designation. It then goes onto mention a special Deepdene train, and begins to give instructions on how it should be dealt with... Read more
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Notice of Royal Trains
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This notice was issued by the London Midland Region of British Railways in 1951 to give notice to its staff of three royal trains, presumably for the Festival of Britain. The three services mentioned are from London Euston to Lowton, Lowton to Manchester Victoria and Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Riverside. There were two stations in the Manchester area called Lowton: Lowton (formerly on the London and North Western Railway) and Lowton... Read more
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Train cancelled II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the continuation of the previous entry. It requests that receipt of the message of the cancelled train by acknowledged by using the code “River 2”. We also learn that the message was issued from Lime Street station... Read more
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Train cancelled
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 11th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a confidential (with good reason, you may think!) notice issued on Thursday 31st May 1951 by the London Midland Region of British Railways, explaining that a Grove train from from Euston to Riverside has been cancelled (sounds familiar!): there will be a Deepdene service (“Deepdene 1”) that follows the same route and will presumably be used by the passengers who would have used the Grove. However, this is not the... Read more
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Book of Instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This British Railways-issued Book of Instructions advises station masters and signalmen on the rules governing signalling on double lines (one track running in each direction, rather than a single track in which trains in both directions use the same track)... Read more
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A Step Forward - Revision of Regional Boundaries
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This pamphlet, issued by British Railways, deals with the revision of its regional boundaries in 1958. When the railways in Great Britain were nationalised in 1948, BR was divided into six regions, roughly corresponding to the “Big Four” railway companies which preceded it: the Eastern Region (incorporating the lines of the former London and North Eastern Railway south of the Shaftholme Junction in Doncaster), the North Eastern Region (LNER lines in England... Read more
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Guard’s Instructions
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This booklet was issued by British Railways to give advice to guards on using the new omniprinter ticket issuing machine... Read more
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AC Electrified Lines - Working Instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This booklet was issued in July 1960 by the London Midland Region of British Railways, giving instructions on how to work on AC electrified lines... Read more
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First Aid for Electrical Accidents
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This manual, issed by the London Midland Region of British Railways, gives advice to its employees on how to administer first aid after electrical accidents. The need for such advice is a sign of the advance of the Modernisation Plan... Read more
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London Midland and Scottish Railway Rule Book 1933
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a rule book for staff issued in 1933 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway... Read more
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Fire Brigade Manual
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a manual which was issued to employees of the fire service... Read more
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Red Pamphlet instructions III
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This page deals with the carrying of explosives by road vehicles, in particular maximum weight limits... Read more
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Red Pamphlet instructions II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see the continued instructions from the previous entry, this time addressing wagons labelled “Highly Inflammable”. It deals especially with the need for a 30-foot “barrier wagon” between the locomotive and the first wagon labelled “Highly Inflammable”, and in between such wagons and those carrying liquefied gas... Read more
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Red Pamphlet instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This page gives “Instructions for Handling and Conveyance of Dangerous Goods by Rail and Road”. In particular, it gives advice on handling explosives. It places restrictions on the weight of explosives that can be carried by any one train, and the need for two barrier wagons separating vehicles carrying explosives from the locomotive, “Highly Inflammable” wagons and wagons containing liquefied gas, as well as behind the last wagon carrying explosives... Read more
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Schedule D instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This page continues the instructions for dealing with flasks contained in the previous entry.... Read more
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Schedule C instructions
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a set of instructions to railway workers on how to deal with Central Electricity Generating Board and South of Scotland Electricity Board flasks... Read more
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Schedule A instructions
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This is a set of instructions to railway workers not to load explosives and other dangerous material onto a certain (unspecified) type of railway vehicle... Read more
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Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963
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This is an Explanatory Book for Employees in relation to the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963, which provided health and safety protection at work to railway employees and other non-factory workers - factory workers had already been covered by the Factories Act 1961. Both Acts were superseded in 1974 by the Health and Safety at Work Act... Read more
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Facts and Figures about British Railways
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 7th November 2011 | 0 Comments
The front cover of the 1957 edition of the pamphlet, Facts and Figures about British Railways... Read more
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British Railways Rule Book 1950
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 4th November 2011 | 0 Comments
This is the British Railways Rule Book from 1950, but reprinted in 1961 with updates... Read more
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Pat Moffat talks about how her husband’s uncle used to work on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 12th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Moffat talks in detail about her husband’s uncle, Billy Shone, and his work on the railway. He started work at the age of 12, and had the job of cleaning out the steam locomotives’ fires, at the cost of having burns all over his hands as he did not wear gloves. On a lighter note, he would use the fire to cook his breakfast!... Read more
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Pat Moffat recalls her mother’s work in the service of Lord Mayor Caplan
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 9th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Moffat recalls how her mother would light the fire for Lord Mayor Louis Caplan and his sister, Lady Mayoress Frances, on Friday evenings and then work for them the whole of Saturday, before meeting her family in Great Homer Street when the day’s work was done. She also refers to the famous market in Great Homer Street, that consists of 1200 stalls, selling all kids of items... Read more
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Pat Moffat talks about her family member who worked on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 9th September 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Moffat mentions her family background, of how her Uncle Jackie worked on the railway, and how her father trained for the same job, but was ruled out when found to be colour blind, but still socialised with his railway-worker friends. Uncle Jackie, meanwhile, had both legs amputated after being hit by a train, but got a job in the ticket office, which enabled him to buy fish and chips... Read more
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Fred Currah reminisces about his days working on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th August 2011 | 0 Comments
Fred Currah gives many memories of time on the railways. He mentions railway cottages, how workers would pocket slabs of coal, how the railway would sack those guilty of misconduct and of a fruit warehouse that once existed at Edge Hill... Read more
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Fred Currah mentions his voluntary work at Whiston hospital
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th August 2011 | 0 Comments
Fred Currah talks about his current voluntary work at Whiston hospital. Though not ordained, he is allowed to give Holy Communion to his patients... Read more
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Paul Salveson describes how the 1911 strike began and spread
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson explains how the 1911 transport strike began on the docks, and this inspired the railway workers to follow suit, first in Liverpool, then in other cities: even non-unionised workers joined in. This was much to the consternation of Jimmy Thomas, leader of the Amalgated Society of Railway Servants, and the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, who told Thomas that the strikers were mad!... Read more
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Paul Salveson discusses the political background to the 1911 strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson explains how the railway unions played a big role in building up the Labour Party, in part because the refusal of the employers to recognise them made them think that they could only achieve the changes they wanted through Parliament. In addition, the ideas of socialism, anarchism and syndicalism (the belief espoused by Tom Mann) were growing, while Liverpool’s status as a port exposed it to the... Read more
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Paul Salveson assess the success of the 1911 transport strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson evaluates the strike’s success. He pronounces it a “qualified success”, citing the fact that the workers had, for the first time, realised their strength. He concedes there is an argument that they should have stayed out longer, but also points to the violence perpetrated against the strikers (and not just on Bloody Sunday) as a sign of the cost that would have been incurred by a longer... Read more
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Paul Salveson mentions the role of female railway clerks in the 1911 strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson expands on the role of women in the strike. The Railway Clerks’ Association, many of whose members were women, did not officially take part in the strike, but it instructed its members not to blackleg. However, the male-dominated railway unions tended to be hostile towards women: one might say the clue is in the very name of the National Union of Railwaymen... Read more
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Ray Physick, in answer to a question, talks about the role of women in the transport strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
In answer to a question from a woman in the audience, Ray Physick affirms that most of strikers were men, but that their wives went on the marches. He also mentions how the strike transcended sectarian divisions... Read more
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Ed Barrett talks about the reading of the Riot Act on Bloody Sunday in 1911
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ed Barrett draws the audience’s attention to a photograph taken on Bloody Sunday in the 1911 strike. There is a peaceful gathering outside St. George’s Hall, including children playing cricket, and a magistrate is about to read the Riot Act, allowing the police and army to use any means necessary to make the crowd disperse (unless it disperses voluntarily within an hour of the proclamation). Yet, as Ed points... Read more
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Paul Salveson discusses the earliest railway trade unions
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson talks of the first two successful railway trade unions: the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (the name, he notes, is highly significant) and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF, which specifically represented drivers and firemen). However, he also notes that the employers dismissed the whole idea of a railway union as ridiculous, because of their militaristic ethos: indeed, one director made that very comparison... Read more
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Paul Salveson explains why the railway companies refused to recognise trade unions
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
In answer to a question from Ian Brownbill, Paul Salveson explains why the railway industry, in stark contrast to other industries such as textiles, steadfastly refused to recognise trade unions. He explains that this was largely due to the railways’ militaristic ethos. He also points out that textile companies were able to benefit from collective bargaining, and thus that it may have been against the railway bosses’ interest not to... Read more
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Ray Physick mentions the use of the Royal Navy during the 1911 strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ray Physick mentions how the government brought in not just the army, in an attempt to crush the Liverpool transport strike of 1911, but also the Royal Navy, with ships shining lights into the docks at night to see if anybody was there... Read more
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Paul Salveson recounts how the Liverpool transport strike went national
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson explains how the Liberal government tried to end the Liverpool strike by brokering a deal between the railway unions and the companies, but the latter continued to refuse to recognise the unions. As a result, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith offered the unions a deal, which they rejected because it did not include either recognition or redress of grievances: thus, they called a national strike - with an... Read more
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Paul Salveson talks of the military discipline on the railways in the nineteenth century
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson explains the militaristic ethos that prevailed on the railways in the nineteenth century, largely because the early railway managers usually had military backgrounds. As a result, they adopted a harsh and uncompromising attitude to any strikes: workers who did go on strike risked being sacked, imprisoned or permanently evicted from the company houses they rented. This approach in turn generated the seething discontent that would explode in 1911. He... Read more
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Ed Barrett reads out a letter written by Tom Mann, leader of the 1911 transport strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ed Barrett, director of the 2011 production of Rob Johnston’s play Rid the World, about the 1911 transport strike in Liverpool, reads out a letter written by Tom Mann, the syndicalist who led the strike. Mann talks of how successful the strike has been, his meeting in the House of Commons with Keir Hardie and George Lansbury, two leading members of the young Labour Party (telling them about Bloody Sunday, among... Read more
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Jeremy Hawthorn gives a detailed account of the 1911 transport strike in Liverpool
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Jeremy Hawthorn, audience member, talks more about the strike. He mentions the Suffragettes’ campaign, and some little-known facts about the Liver Building. He also clearly distinguishes between the different groups of workers involved in the transport strike, and of how all crucially displayed solidarity with one another. He finishes by noting that in the November local elections, the Conservatives and Liberals formed an electoral pact, but that did not prevent... Read more
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Jane, an audience member, mentions a sympathy strike by jamworkers in 1911
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Jane, a member of the audience, describes reading a book which mentions how female jamworkers in Liverpool struck in sympathy with the male transport workers... Read more
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Paul Salveson talks about the underlying grievances that led to the strike of 1911
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson outlines the grievances of railway workers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which would culminate in their going on strike in 1911. It was not a well-paid job, the hours of work were very long (leading to many cases of workers falling asleep), and, above all, the death rate was very high. The latter mainly resulted from workers being crushed as they tried to couple the rolling stock... Read more
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Paul Salveson explains how the the 1911 strike came to an end
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Paul Salveson details how the Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, panicked by the effects the national strike was having, proposed a deal whereby the government would try and get the unions recognised by the bosses and set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the unions’ grievances. The union leaders, feeling this would be the best deal they could get, accepted, and though some workers stayed out, the strike then... Read more
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Ray Physick mentions how the 1911 transport strike halted all business in Liverpool
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ray Physick describes how effective the strike was in paralysing Liverpool business. He cites a letter to Winston Churchill from the Liverpool Conservative MP William Walker, complaining that no goods could be delivered and how the police could not cope: Bamfords was finding it impossible to import food into Liverpool, according to Walker. Ray also notes how the fact that Liverpool was the country’s number one port meant the... Read more
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Ray Physick talks about Bloody Sunday on 13th August 1911
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ray Physick addresses how the transport strike of 1911 was conducted. He talks of Tom Mann’s oratory and charisma, how the strikers held the trade union leaders accountable, and how on Bloody Sunday, 13th August, police attacked a peaceful crowd which had gathered to hear Mann speak, illegally hitting them over their heads with their batons. This behaviour so scandalised the editor of the Liverpool Magazine (not a natural supporter... Read more
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Ray Physick mentions the use of the army during the 1911 transport strike
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ray Physick mentions how the army was used to try and put down the 1911 transport strike, including what he estimates to be the first armoured vehicle ever to be used on a British street, and how Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, used the strike to experiment with the use of military force... Read more
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Ed Barrett assesses Tom Mann’s letter
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Ed Barrett provides his assessment of Tom Mann’s letter. He draws atttention to the significant points in it, Mann’s sense of humour, and how he cleverly used tactics to ensure the success of the strike... Read more
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Roy describes the shifts he worked as a bus driver
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy tells of how he got up at half past four in the morning to take factory workers to Speke... Read more
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Roy remember how one night he drove his bus off the route
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy describes how one night, he had two female passengers on his bus who lived off the route, so he agreed to take them home. He was in big trouble with his employers over this, as, by going off the route, he had caused the company to lose track of the bus, necessitating a search party, but got away with it because the bus was all right! The explanation for... Read more
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Roy recalls his work loading the coal wagons at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 22nd July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy remebers how he used to load the coal wagons at Edge Hill, how he would be frozen in winter, how the problem was made worse by hosing the coal down (which made it heavier), and how he used to cheat his customers... Read more
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Roy talks about his work as a bus driver
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy talks in general terms about his job as a bus driver. He mentions the bus itself, the depot where he was based, the route he covered, his hours of work, how he started as a conductor, and how he acquired his PSV (public service vehicle, now passenger carrying vehicle or PCV) licence to become a driver... Read more
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Roy talks about the advent of the conductorless Atlantean buses
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Roy recalls the arrival of Atlantean buses, which, unlike their predecessors, did not use conductors, and of the (fortunately unjustified) fears of he and his fellow drivers for their safety... Read more
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A Telford Court resident talks about her occupation as a nurse
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 11th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents of Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation share their memories with the children of St Anne’s Primary school... Read more
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A Telford Court resident talks about smog
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 11th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents of Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation share their memories with the children of St Anne’s Primary school... Read more
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A Telford Court talks to local school pupils about life on Smithdown Road
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 11th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents of Telford Court Sheltered Accommodation share their memories with the children of St Anne’s Primary school... Read more
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Telford Court residents talks about their daily life growing up in the area
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered accommodation share their memories with the school children from St Anne’s primary.... Read more
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Telford Court residents talk about using the local telephone boxes
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 10th July 2011 | 0 Comments
Residents from Telford Court Sheltered accommodation share their memories with the school children from St Anne’s primary.... Read more
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Tony Garner talks about working on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Tony Garner talks about his early working life on the railways at Metal’s Victorian Christmas Event 2010... Read more
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Tony Garner talks about a near-death experience working on the railway
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Tony Garner shares his memories of Edge Hill Station at Metals Victorian Christmas Event 2010... Read more
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Simon Joyce talks about the railway sidings, the football specials and the community
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Simon Joyce shares his memories of coming to Edge Hill Station with his father as a child and how big it was then with the marshelling yards. He also remembers as a young police officer meeting the football specials with fans coming into the city on match days. He also recollects the old houses and the look of the communuity and remembers an old flag factory.... Read more
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Pat Clarke talks about her working life
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Pat Clarke talks about her work history starting at Woolworths in Wavertree Rd at Metals Victorian Christmas Event 2010... Read more
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George talks about his life
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 16th May 2011 | 0 Comments
George, originally from Wavertree shares his memories of Edge Hill Station and his working life, at Metals Victorian Christmas Event 2010... Read more
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Locomotive 7250
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here, an LMS tank locomotive numbered 7250 appears to be leaving the shed, closely followed by another engine. A tender locomotive heads in the opposite direction.... Read more
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Double header
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see a double header involving two tender locomotives, for no apparent reason.... Read more
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Strange-shaped locomotive
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 1 Comments
This is a rather bizarre-looking locomotive. No other information is available about it.... Read more
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Tender locomotive in the shed II
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 1 Comments
A duller-coloured version of “Tender locomotive in the shed”.... Read more
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Closer and more blurred view from above the tunnels
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Again, we see how a closer view leads to a more blurry picture.... Read more
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View from above the tunnels
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we get a view of the model railway from directly above the tunnels. The trains and the signals are clearly in view.... Read more
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A closer view of the model railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here the camera zooms in closer, but the only effect is to blur the image.... Read more
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Birds-eye view of the model railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here we see the model railway from directly overhead.... Read more
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A fourth view of the model railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Essentially the same as the previous picture, but from a slightly different angle.... Read more
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A third view of the model railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
This is what might be called a helicopter’s eye view of the model railway, from just above the houses. We see what appear to be very long goods trains, as well as a bridge and many signal towers. Trees are also visible in the top left.... Read more
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Model railway - different view
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
Here is a different perspective on the same model railway shown in the previous picture. Here we get the view from behind the railway, as it were, with more of the houses visible.... Read more
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Model railway
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 10th May 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a model railway, at the National Railway Museum. Various locomotives and trains can be seen from above, as well as signals, a shed and houses next to the railway.... Read more
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John Denby death
Resource Type: Image | Posted on 3rd May 2011 | 4 Comments
This is a newspaper report on the inquest into the death of John Denby, a 36-year old factory labourer of Royston Street, Edge Hill. On 28th June, Denby fell into a tank of boiling water at a factory owned by North West, and died of scalds. The appropriately-named coroner, G C Mort, recorded s verdict of accidental death.... Read more
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Kenny Thomas gives his railway memories
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Kenny Thomas remembers the coal merchants on Tunnel Rd and starting many journeys from Edge Hill Station during his years in the merchant navy.... Read more
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Dennis Flood talks about the Edge Hill grid iron
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Dennis Flood about the comings and goings at Edge Hill Station, the grid iron, marshalling yards and sidings in the 60’s... Read more
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Dennis Flood recalls when he had to take photographs in an unusual circumstance
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Dennis Flood remembers Jim McMannus having a little fall on the way in to work after a session in the Durning Arms... Read more
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Dennis Flood fondly mentions how kind the station staff were to him
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Dennis Flood remembers his days as a fireman in the 50’s before he became a driver, and previous to that in his younger days as a train spotter and the kindness of the staff at Edge Hill Station... Read more
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Dennis Flood mentions the staff at Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Dennis remembers the station staff at Edge Hill Station, Bill Harrison, Syd Whytewick, Jim McMannus, Charlie Foukes, Sam Leventhal... Read more
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Alan Hay recalls the steam locomotives passing through Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay talks about the steam trains coming through Edge Hill Station... Read more
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Alan Hay talks about the cutting between Edge Hill and Crown Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay talks about the cutting at Edge Hill Station and Crown Street station.... Read more
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Alan Hay reminisces about the station and its importance
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay Talks about his days as an apprentice plumber and doing jobs at Edge Hill station... Read more
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Frances Green mentions how her aunt worked at the Automatic alongside Ted Ray and Arthur Askey
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green remembers The Automatic were they made electrical components, during the war they helped with the war effort. Ted Ray and Arthur Askey, well known Liverpool comics, both worked at the Automatic with Frances’s Aunt. Frances’s uncle also worked there but then got into the Post Office which was a cut above The Automatic and meant you were established.... Read more
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Ed Darcy Hatton talks about his uncles, who worked as porters at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Ed Darcy Hatton remembers two of his Uncles worked at the station during the 50’s and 60’s, Uncle Alfred and Uncle Frank. Frank worked on the horse and cart delivering coal to Edge Hill from the Crown Street depot and vice versa.... Read more
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Ed Darcy Hatton mentions his great grandfather, a station master at Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Ed Darcy Hatton talks about his Great Grandfather, Thomas Devine Mooney, who was Station Master at Edge Hill Station. His brother James also worked at the station as a porter for a short while but went on to marry May Vine whose family were well known Liverpool hoteliers and owned the Vines Pub next to the Adelphi Hotel... Read more
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Alan Hay talks about the “blood tub”
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay remembers ‘the blood tub’ that came up from Crown St to the marshalling yards at Edge Hill, and how the men would run alongside the moving trucks and push a brake stick into the wheels and then jump onto it and ride along to slow them down, a very dangerous practice... Read more
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Alan Hay remembers the terrifying head chef at the Adelphi Hotel
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay remembers working at the Adelphi Hotel which was owned by the railway, cleaning the ovens out and recounts an incident with the notorious head chef in the kitchens which he likens to Dante’s Inferno... Read more
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Alan Hay remembers sending signals using Morse code
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay talks about his first job and his memories of Liverpool telegraph office and sending morse code messages to all the stations along the Ormskirk line... Read more
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Alan Hay remembers working in the telegraph office at the age of 16
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay remembers his first job at the telegraph office when he was 16... Read more
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Lucy Halligan mentions the Williamson Tunnels
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Lucy Halligan talks about the Willamson Tunnels in Edge Hill and recounts a tale of the Willamson tunnel workers running into the Edge Hill railway workers while digging tunnels underground.... Read more
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Chris Markham recalls working in the coal yard near Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 19th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham talks about his first job at Griffiths Coal Yard close to Edge Hill Station on Tunnel Road... Read more
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Dennis Flood talks about the station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 14th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Dennis Flood, a former railway employee, describes the previous foreman at Edge Hill Station Bill Harrison and Syd Whitewick, and the siginificance of the station in railway history.... Read more
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