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Liverpool
is a city of characters, from the "Exxie Echo" sellers
who used to shout their message from street corners, to the dockers
and their world famous nicknames.
Some
are fictional, like "Gizza Job" Yosser Hughes, created
by Liverpool playwright Alan Bleasdale. Or "Rita", from
the pen of Willie Russell. Some were "do gooders"- Kitty
Wilkinson and her washhouses; Joseph Williamson and his network
of tunnels - what you might describe as an early job creation scheme.
Maggie
May was well known to sailors - and others - all over the world.
Was she real? Or simply the subject of a sailor's song? And who
was "Dickie Sam"?
But
for all the well known names, there are dozens of local men and
women who, for one reason or another, can truly be described as
"characters".
Click on the links below.
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