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Names of Streets, etc.

CHAPTER VII.
Everton; Scarcity of Lodgings there; Farm Houses swept away;
Everton under Different Aspects; the Beacon; Fine View from it; View
described; Description of the Beacon; Beacons in Olden Time;
Occupants of the Beacon; Thurot's Expedition; Humphrey Brook and
the Spanish Armada; Telegraph at Everton; St. Domingo; The Mere
Stones; Population of Everton.
CHAPTER VIII.
Everton Cross; Its situation; Its mysterious Disappearance; How it was
Removed; Its Destination; Consternation of the Everton Gossips;
Reports about the Cross; The Round House; Old Houses; Everton;
Low-hill; Everton Nobles; History of St. Domingo, Bronte, and Pilgrim
Estates; Soldiers at Everton; Opposition of the Inhabitants to their
being quartered there; Breck-road; Boundary-lane; Whitefield House;
An Adventure; Mr. T. Lewis and his Carriage; West Derby-road;
Zoological Gardens; Mr. Atkins; His good Taste and Enterprise; Lord
Derby's Patronage; Plumpton's Hollow; Abduction of Miss Turner;
Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
CHAPTER IX.
The Powder House; Moss Lake Fields; Turbary; Bridge over Moss
Lake Gutter; Edge-hill; Mason-street; Mr. Joseph Williamson; His
Eccentricities; His Originality; Marriage; Appearance; Kindness to the
Poor; Mr. Stephenson's opinion of Mr. Williamson's Excavations; The
House in Bolton-street; Mr. C. H. the Artist; Houses in High-street; Mr.
Williamson, the lady, and the House to Let; How to make a Nursery;
Strange Noises in the Vaults; Williamson and Dr. Raffles; A strange
Banquet; The surprise, etc.
CHAPTER X.
Joseph Williamson's Excavations; The future of Liverpool;
Williamson's Property; Changes in his Excavations of late years;

Description of the Vaults and Passages; Tunnels; Arches; Houses in
Mason-street; Houses without Windows; Terraced Gardens; etc.
CHAPTER XI.
The Mount Quarry; Berry-street; Rodney-street; Turning the Tables;
Checkers at Inn Doors; The De Warrennes Arms; Cock-fighting;
Pownall Square; Aintree Cock Pit; Dr. Hume's Sermon; Rose Hill;
Cazneau-street; St. Anne-street; Faulkner's Folly; The Haymarket;
Richmond Fair.
CHAPTER XII.
Great Charlotte-street; The Sans Pareil; the Audience there; Actors and
Performances; Mr. and Mrs. Holloway; Maria Monk, or the Murder at
the Red Barn; The two Sweeps; A strange Interruption; Stephen Price
and John Templeton; Malibran; W. J. Hammond; the Trick played by
him at the Adelphi Hotel; the Water Drinkers--Harrington or Bootle;
Mr. S--- and the Pew in St Anne's Church.
CHAPTER XIII.
The year 1816; Distress of all Classes; Battle of Waterloo; High rate of
taxation; Failure of Harvest; Public Notice about Bread; Distress in
London; Riots there; The Liverpool Petition; Good Behaviour of the
Working class in Liverpool; Great effort made to give relief; Amateur
Performances; Handsome Sum realized; Enthusiasm exhibited on the
occasion; Lord Cochrane; His Fine; Exertion of his Friends in
Liverpool; The Penny Subscription; How the Amount was paid.
CHAPTER XIV.
Fall of St. Nicholas' Church Spire; Dreadful calamity; Riots at the
Theatre Royal; Half-price or Full Price; Incendiary Placards;
Disgraceful Proceedings; Trials of the rioters; Mr. Statham, Town
Clerk; Attempts at Compromise; Result of Trial.

CHAPTER XV.
Old Favourites; Ennobled Actresses; John Kemble; his Farewell of
Liverpool Audiences; Coriolanus; Benefits in the last Century;
Paganini; His Wonderful Style; the Walpurgis Nacht; De Begnis;
Paganini's Caution; Mr. Lewis' Liberality; Success of Paganini's
Engagement; Paganini at the Amphitheatre; The Whistlers; Mr. Clarke
and the Duchess of St. Alban's; Her kindness and generosity; Mr.
Banks and his cook; Mrs. Banks' estimate of Actors; Edmund Kean;
Miss O'Neil; London favourites not always successful; Vandenhoff;
Vandenhoff and Salter-off.
CHAPTER XVI.
High Price of Provisions in 1816; Highway Robberies; Dangerous state
of Toxteth Park; Precautions Adopted; Sword Cases in Coaches;
Robbery at Mr. Yates' house; Proceedings of the Ruffians; Their Alarm;
Flight of the Footman; Escape of Thieves; Their Capture, Trial and
Execution; Further Outrages; Waterloo Hotel; Laird's Roperies; The
Fall Well; Alderman Bennett's Warehouse; The Dye House Well;
Wells on Shaw's Brow.
CHAPTER XVII.
Progress of Liverpool; Privateers; Origin of the Success of the Port;
Children owning Privateers; Influence, Social and Moral; Wonderful
increase of Trade; etc.

PREFACE.
The "Recollections of Old Liverpool," contained in the following pages,
appeared originally the Liverpool Compass, their publication extending
over a period of several months.
When they were commenced it was intended to limit them to three, or
at the most four, chapters, but such was the interest they created, that

they were extended to their present length.
Those who have recorded the green memories of an old man, as told
while seated by his humble "ingle nook" have endeavoured to adhere to
his own words and mode of narration--hence the somewhat rambling
and discursive style of these "Recollections"--a style which does not, in
the opinion of many, by any means detract from their general interest.
The frontispiece is copied (by special permission) from part of a very
finely-painted view of Liverpool, by Jenkinson, dated 1813, in the
possession of Thomas Dawson, Esq., Rodney-street. The vignette of
the Mill which stood at the North end of the St. James' Quarry in the
title page, is from