The PlacesYou are in: Liverpool > History > Discover > The Places  Memories and artefacts from the Royal Court theatres history are being sought.  A new exhibition in Neston tells the remarkable story of a feud between the town’s two coal mines.  A Wirral school is turning back the clock to celebrate its centenary year.  Liverpool set the pace for swimming introducing the UK's first public bathing facilities.  The story of U-534, now on display at Woodside ferry terminal, the last U-boat to leave Germany.  Nancy Ostrander shares photos she took as a student, capturing the city during its bleakest time.  There's strong evidence of a Viking presence in Merseyside and Cheshire that continues to this day.  Images of Liverpool's music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s are unearthed.  The visit of the QE2 is a reminder of the golden days of the transatlantic liners.  A die-hard fan laments the demise of his local football club, Runcorn FC.  Memories of roller skating the corridors at Speke Hall from one of the house's last residents.  Watch the first film of Liverpool and discover the history of one of the city’s busiest streets.  At the height of the miners’ strike in 1984 BBC Radio Merseyside visited Sutton Manor in St Helens.  Watch footage of the opening of the Queensway Tunnel as it celebrates 75 years of operation.  Colomendy in North Wales has happy memories for generations of Liverpool schoolchildren.  Watch footage of the 1984 festival held on a transformed industrial site next to the Mersey.  It's been a landmark of Warrington but now Burtonwood airbase is being cleared for development.  The story of Liverpool’s Lime Street Station stretches from the birth of the passenger rail age.  Take a guided walk through Woolton and discover more about the 19th Century opulence of the area.  German P.O.W.'s and American soldiers were stationed in camps in Huyton during WW2. You are in: Liverpool > History > Discover > The Places |
