Recollections of Old Liverpool

Recollections of Old Liverpool,
by A

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Title: Recollections of Old Liverpool
Author: A Nonagenarian

Release Date: May 5, 2007 [eBook #21324]
Language: English
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RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD LIVERPOOL BY A
NONAGENARIAN.
[Picture: View of Liverpool in the year 1813]
ENTERED AT STA. HALL
PRICE 3/6
LIVERPOOL. J. F. HUGHES, 1836
2nd. 1,000.
[Picture: Title Page]

CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I.
Birth of Author; Strong Memory; A Long-lived Family; Tree in St.
Peter's Church-yard; Cruelty of Town Boys; The Ducking-stool; The
Flashes in Marybone; Mode of Ducking; George the Third's Birthday;
Frigates; Launch of the Mary Ellen; The Interior of a Slaver; Liverpool
Privateers; Unruly Crews; Kindness of Sailors; Sailors' Gifts;
Northwich Flatmen; The Salt Trade; The Salt Tax; The Salt Houses;
Salt-house Dock; The White House and Ranelagh Gardens; Inscription
over the Door; Copperas-hill; Hunting a Hare; Lord Molyneux; Miss
Brent; Stephens' Lecture on Heads; Mathews "At Home"; Brownlow
Hill; Mr. Roscoe; Country Walks; Moss Lake Fields; Footpads;
Fairclough (Love) Lane; Everton Road; Loggerheads Lane; Richmond
Row; The Hunt Club Kennels.
CHAPTER II.
The Gibson's; Alderman Shaw; Mr. Christian; Folly Tavern; Gardens in

Folly Lane; Norton Street; Stafford Street; Pond by Gallows Mill;
Skating in Finch Street; Folly Tower; Folly Fair; Fairs in Olden Times;
John Howard the Philanthropist; The Tower Prison; Prison Discipline;
Gross Abuses; Howard presented with Freedom; Prisons of 1803;
Description of Borough Gaol; Felons; Debtors; Accommodations;
Escape of Prisoners; Cells; Courtyards; Prison Poultry; Laxity of
Regulations; Garnish; Fees; Fever; Abuses; Ball Nights; Tricks played
upon "Poor Debtors"; Execution of Burns and Donlevy for Burglary;
Damage done by French Prisoners; their Ingenuity; The Bridewell on
the Fort; Old Powder Magazine; Wretched State of the Place; Family
Log; Durand--His Skill; Escape of Prisoners--Their Recapture;
Durand's Narrative--His Recapture; House of Correction; Mrs.
Widdows.
CHAPTER III.
The Volunteers; Liverpool in '97; French Invasion; Panic; Warrington
Coach; The Fat Councillor; Excitement in Liverpool; Its Defences;
French Fisherman; Spies; Pressgangs--Cruelty Practised; Pressgang
Rows; Woman with Three Husbands; Mother Redcap--Her
Hiding-places; The Passage of the River; Ferrymen; Woodside Ahoy!;
Cheshire an Unknown Country to Many; Length of passage there; The
Rock Perch; Wrecking; Smuggling; Storms; Formby Trotters;
Woodside--No Dwellings there; Marsh Level; Holt Hill--Oxton;
Wallasey Pool; Birkenhead Priory; Tunnel under the Mersey; Tunnel at
the Red Noses--Exploration of it; The Old Baths; Bath Street; The Bath
Woman; The Wishing Gate; Bootle Organs; Sandhills; Indecency of
Bathers; The Ladies Walk; Mrs. Hemans; the Loggerheads; Duke
Street; Campbell the Poet; Gilbert Wakefield; Dr. Henderson; Incivility
of the Liverpool Clergy; Bellingham--His Career and History, Crime,
Death; Peter Tyrer; The Comfortable Coach.
CHAPTER IV.
Colonel Bolton; Mr. Kent; George Canning; Liverpool Borough
Elections; Divisions caused by them; Henry Brougham; Egerton Smith;
Mr. Mulock; French Revolution; Brougham and the Elector on Reform;

Ewart and Denison's Election; Conduct of all engaged in it; Sir Robert
Peel; Honorable Charles Grant; Sir George Drinkwater; Anecdote of
Mr. Huskisson; The Deputation from Hyde; Mr. Huskisson's opinion
upon Railway Extension; Election Processions; The Polling; How
much paid for Votes; Cost of the Election; Who paid it; Election for
Mayor; Porter and Robinson; Pipes the Tobacconist; Duelling; Sparling
and Grayson's Duel; Dr. McCartney; Death of Mr. Grayson; The Trial;
Result; Court Martial on Captain Carmichael; His Defence; Verdict;
The Duel between Colonel Bolton and Major Brooks; Fatal Result.
CHAPTER V.
Story of Mr. Wainwright and Mr. Theophilus Smith; Burning of the
Town Hall; Origin and Progress of the Fire; Trial of Mr. Angus.
CHAPTER VI.
State of the Streets; Dale Street; The obstinate Cobbler; The Barber;
Narrowness of Dale-street; The Carriers; Highwaymen; Volunteer
Officers Robbed; Mr. Campbell's Regiment; The Alarm; The Capture;
Improvement in Lord Street; Objections to Improvement; Castle Ditch;
Dining Rooms; Castle-street; Roscoe's Bank; Brunswick-street; Theatre
Royal Drury Lane; Cable Street; Gas Lights; Oil Lamps; Link Boys;
Gas Company's Advertisement; Lord-street; Church-street;
Ranelagh-street; Cable-street; Redcross-street; Pond in Church-street;
Hanover-street; Angled Houses; View of the River; Whitechapel;
Forum in Marble-street; Old Haymarket; Limekiln-lane;
Skelhorn-street; Limekilns; London-road; Men Hung in '45; Gallows
Field; White Mill; The Supposed Murder; The Grave found; Islington
Market; Mr. Sadler; Pottery in Liverpool; Leece-street; Pothouse lane;
Potteries in Toxteth Park; Watchmaking; Lapstone Hall; View of
Everton; Old Houses; Clayton-square; Mrs. Clayton; Cases-street;
Parker-street; Banastre street; Tarleton-street; Leigh-street; Mr. Rose
and the Poets; Mr. Meadows and his Wives; Names of old streets; Dr.
Solomon; Fawcett and Preston's Foundry; Button street;
Manchester-street; Iron Works;