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Bootle Library 220 Stanley Road Bootle L20 3EN View in Maps / Get Directions 10th Apr 2024, 10:30am Bootle Library Chamomile Circle This Easter break, join us for a special Chamomile Circle in Bootle Library focusing on the library garden and some nature-based activities. Free Event, no booking required 16th Apr 2024, 10:30am Bootle Library Sensory Play Sensory Play is a free and welcoming space for little ones to explore the senses together. There’ll...
Previous Next Loading carousel items... Local History & Ancestry This digital archive of photos is the most comprehensive of its kind in the borough. View the Sefton Looking Back Archive Find ancestors in the complete set of UK Census images from 184
Sefton's Lost Voices - Home Page Sefton's Lost Voices is a project to record the memories of people who have a compelling story to tell or may be in the early stages of memory loss. Sefton’s Lost Voices Project gives anyone in Sefton, especially thos
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Sefton's Lost Voices - Joan Braid Joan describes witnessing a US Airforce World War II B-24 Liberator bomber crashing at RAF Woodvale airfield in 1944. She also talks about life on the farm next to Woodvale and the surrounding area when she was a chi
Sefton's Lost Voices - Brian Gaffney Brian Gaffney tells us about his early years in Dovecot, Liverpool, his time in the Royal Navy on HMS Albion, and working all over the world as an outstation engineer for British Airways. Image used with kind perm
Sefton's Lost Voices - Ken Cockram Ken Cockram tells us of his early life in Norris Green, Liverpool and his first voyages in the Merchant Navy, joining the Queen Elizabeth crew, meeting his futue wife and settling down in New York. Ken then describe
Sefton's Lost Voices - Joan Rimmer Joan tells us about growing up in rural Formby in the 1930's an 1940's, World War 2 breaking out, Liverpool evacuees during the 1941 May Blitz and Formby's changing character over the years. NS_P20_9 Formby Village
Welcome foolish mortals! The Hallo'zine is back for it's 3rd year and we need your terrifying submissions to make it the best one yet! As with the previous Hallo'zines, we pick 5 stories from the submissions to make the most varied zine we can. We wa
Sefton's Lost Voices - Amelia & Amelia Amelia Roach cared for her mother - Amelia - who was living with dementia. Tadhg Devlin documented some of this and together they produced Amelia & Amelia - a DIY survival guide to caring for someone living with
Sefton's Lost Voices - Joan Braid (Youtube version) A short YouTube version of Joan's account of a USAF Liberator B-24 bomber crash-landing at RAF Woddvale in WW2.
Sefton's Lost Voices - Ken Cockram (Youtube version) A short YouTube version of Ken Cockram's account of joining the Merchant Navy and later meeting his wife in Liverpool's Grafton Rooms. Ken settled in Maghull for 50 years after a career at sea and
A must for anyone with a passion for local history, photography or simply a love of nostalgia, this digital image archive is the most comprehensive of its kind in the borough.