Sunday, June 5 – 1938 Mr. Isaac Caswell, a member of Blackburn Town Council and a well-known football referee, was attacked last night during a
Category: Other news
Likely brewery merger
Friday, April 8 – 1938 A proposed brewery amalgamation is the subject of negotiation. The companies concerned are Ind. Coope and Allsopp, Limited and Houlding’s
Ind. Coope acquire Houlding’s shares
Wednesday, April 6 – 1938 It was announced yesterday that Ind. Coope and Allsopp, Ltd., had acquired the shares of Houlding’s Brewery Company, Ltd., of
International boxing at Anfield
Thursday, March 3 – 1938 Con O’Kelly, of Hull, the Northern heavyweight champion, told the “mail” that he was due to fight at the Anfield
Wellesley juniors may lose ground
Saturday, February 18 – 1938 If a proposal by Buckhaven and Methil Town Council to acquire the ground of Wellesley F.C., Denbeath, is successful this
Ex-Liverpool player broke into house
Friday, August 13 – 1937 Pleading guilty at Kilmarnock Sherif Court yesterday to two charges of theft by housebreaking and one charge of attempted housebreaking,
Gordon Hodgson’s brother-in-law electrocuted
February 16, 1936 Tommy Ward, a South African cricketer, who was married to a sister of Gordon Hodgson, the Aston Villa player, was accidentally electrocuted
Nel Tarleton married at Ormskirk
April 18, 1935 Nel Tarleton, the British featherweight champion boxer, was married quietly to-day at the Register Office, Ormskirk, by special license to Miss Barbara
Death of the man who invented the goal net
November 16, 1934 Mr. John Alexander Brodie, formerly joint engineer of the £8,000,000 Mersey Tunnel, and a man who completely altered the face of Liverpool
Archie Macpherson 78 and not out
Monday, June 27 – 1932 Playing for the Alloa XI of Clackmannan County against Westquarter at the Arns, Alloa on Saturday, Archie Macpherson, the Tullibody
Ex-Liverpool player to pay £85 in damages
July 31, 1931 A sheriff’s jury sat at Preston to-day to assess damages in an undefended action for breach of promise and seduction, brought by
Liverpool F.C. trialist killed at Oxcroft Colliery
November 7, 1930 A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned by the Chesterfield and District Coroner, Dr. R.A. McCrea, who sat with a jury a
Sport in Relation to Every-day Life (David Pratt, ex-Liverpool F.C.)
Tuesday, June 11 – 1930 Sport as a passion Football manager on an “enemy of soul” Value & danger of spectacular games “Sport as a
Unemployment on the Merseyside
Friday, March 1 – 1929 To write about the problem of unemployment is not a very easy or exhilarating exercise at the present time, for
Died at the entrance to Anfield football ground
Wednesday, December 26 – 1928 A middle aged man, James Green, commercial traveller of Wolverton Street, Liverpool, dropped dead at the entrance to the Liverpool
The oldest blacksmith in the country
Sunday, September 11 – 1927 Many records fall to the lot of Britain’s oldest working blacksmith, Mr. James Dawber, of Chapel Place, Garston, Liverpool. Ninety
Cleaning the birds
Thursday, August 25 – 1927 The huge Liver birds, which, towering above the Pier Head buildings, are the admiration of all visitors by sea to
Mr. B.E. Baileys’s golden wedding
Friday, January 28 – 1927 Congratulations will be showered on Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Edwin Bailey to-morrow, when they celebrate their golden wedding. Mr. and
Scottish footballer shot dead
June 6, 1926 Victim of American bandits Andrew Stenhouse, a Scottish footballer, who formerly played for King’s Park F.C., has been shot dead by bandits
Warrant for Tommy Reid’s arrest
March 27, 1926 A remarkable story was told at Motherwell Police Court to-day in a case in which a warrant was granted for the apprehension
Tom Bush and the Bee Hotel: Old times and timers
September 12, 1925 Memories of genial Tom Bush and the old “Bee” Hotel (by Victor Hall). Sometimes a face, or a well-remembered name, drops out
Former Liverpool player in court
Tuesday, March 3 – 1925 When Beatrice Ellen Allman (37) was charged at Brighton yesterday with bigamy, it was stated that she left her home
An Olympian visits Anfield
November 27, 1924 Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish runner, who sails from Liverpool on Saturday in the White Star liner Celtic, visited the ground of the
A gas explosion shakes John Houlding’s old brewery
February 13, 1923 A severe gas explosion occurred in Tynemouth-street in the Everton district of Liverpool, late on Tuesday afternoon. Three houses were wrecked, two
Liverpool F.C. training as a Derby block-buster
Saturday, January 7 – 1922 Amusements in Derby “Alexandra” (Cinema) “Laddie,” a master film starring Miss Sydney Fairbrother, the famous character actress of the London
