ps The answer is I haven't decided yet
Trying to write a very short 'less than a 1000 words' piece on the occupants of the Square in the mid 1860s. Not as easy as you think. Do you give great detail on one or two, or go broad strokes on all of them?
ps The answer is I haven't decided yet
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As I did a little tribute to DT for his birth anniversary I don't want to duplicate so a version of the same is in tribute to the anniversary of his death at www.liverpool.ac.uk . I'm sure Dylan would approve of reworking old material, though sadly I never drafted in a notebook.
I've mentioned the MossLake a few times, and thought this photo from the corner of Hope Street, where Roscoe was born, might illustrate.
The high point in this area is where I'm standing taking the photo, after which the rock structure forms a natural hollow between this point and Smithdown Lane. This was a natural collection point for moisture running down from higher towards Everton Brow, and the reason the peat and bog area was formed, the only escape for the water being in the two streams that lead off the fields, towards Otterspool to the south and via London Road and down into 'the pool' to the North. In the centre of this, on the land where Abercromby ward lies, unuseable ground of marshland and small lakes were cut through by footpaths to join the town to outlying villages, but the main routes in and out of Liverpool avoided the route until it was identified as expansion land and drained. I approve of the Anthony Quinn book by the way, happy to recommend it as a fun read ( see earlier posts). Lots of interesting historical facts mixed in with the fiction, the odd 'bad sex award' moments, and a very fun read.
Play along and try and work out who the historical figures are, and which number in Abercromby Square the family in the 1800s lived at! I forgot to mention, while I'm not updating the picture of me, which I like, sadly the flowing locks have now gone and I resemble a ginger tintin. As I am outing myself as a shorthair I shall avoid claims of fraudulence over the e-mail address, which to be fair, I never claimed was related to hirsuteness.
I shall now go and turn wine into water. Not a huge amount useable in George Melly's 'Scouse Mouse' autobiography, but one or two interesting snippets on his ancestors. There are two different houses on the square occupied at different times and in different generations by Melly's forebears, and I'd highly recommend the book as a great read regardless of the connections to Abercromby.
Rushton has his own particular claim to fame in the publication of his religious tract 'A Defence of Particular Redemption', which attracted attention not just in the United Kingdom, but also in America.
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