David Charters

Sir Charles Wheeler

BENEATH the professorial eccentricity of his eyebrows, there was the grey stare of a man who had observed the ways of fools in many lands and had very little reason to suppose that the future held anything better.Read

St Anselms College in Birkenhead celebrates its 75th anniversary

SCIENCE, the humanities, maths, sport, prayers and rock music are all celebrated at the school founded 75 years ago by Christian Brothers. David Charters reportsRead

Slaves, traders and pioneers: new book on the most turbulent period of Liverpool’s history

Think we have rows today? Well, a teacher has written about the most turbulent period in Liverpool’s history. David Charters reportsRead

Bill Wyman playing at the Liverpool Summer Pops at Kings Dock

The former Rolling Stone who keeps rolling

When an old Stone comes rolling into town, the talk soon turns to cigarettes, rock and roll and Wilfred Pickles. David Charters reportsRead

Lyall Watson

THE fellow with the brilliant if maverick mind, who introduced Fred the tapeworm to his system in the belief it would help combat stomach disorders on his extensive travels, was not easily dismayed by the banality of conventional thinkers.Read

Service of Celebration and Recognition of the Rev Ben Swift Chambers, Shepley Methodist Church, Huddersfield.

Clubs unite to honour their founding father

BLUE and red were joined in friendship yesterday in a service of rededication over the grave of a man whose religious faith made him the father of two great football clubs.Read

Leonard Pennario

SOME devotees said that the handsome chap, who briefly dated Elizabeth Taylor, when she was in a lull between husbands, was the finest musician to step out of Buffalo, the flour-milling city on the banks of Lake Erie.Read

CRASH, famine, panic, inflation, stagnation, depression, recession, slump, squeeze, freeze and now a credit crunch – the words tumbled down from history into the polished gaze of a mid-summer’s day.

I sat with the newspapers, listening to the wind howling from the river, straining against the plastic limbs of our suburban conservatory.Read

Kermit Love

IT WAS perhaps a small burden to carry in an astonishing life, but most people assumed that Kermit, the wise-cracking but sensitive frog, had been named after the chap with a snowy beard, which looked like it should have been hanging on a grotto peg.Read

Mapping out everyone’s memory lane

THE ambition is high – a picture of every street in Liverpool to make the most comprehensive folk history of any city in the world. David Charters reportsRead

Cliff Hall

IT WAS, in its own way, almost as significant to Liverpool’s music as the meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at St Peter’s Church fete, Woolton, in 1957.Read

David Caminer

THEY were the soul of the chattering, hat-pinned England of refained voices and pursed lips, sitting at their tables in the cafes.Read

Reg Flewin

WHEN all footballers looked old, smiling from those vividly coloured cigarette cards which now fetch fancy prices, he was the captain and defensive stalwart of the finest team in the land.Read

Sea Shanties: Songs to help you work, rest and play

WE have rock and roll and cellar clubs, but songs of the sea are the true soul music of our city, as will be heard at this year’s shanty festival. David Charters reports.Read

David Charters: The world is divided between the examiners and the examined

"WOULD you believe it?" said my wife, who had tucked up her legs on our sofa and was reading the Saturday paper, with her mug of coffee steaming on the side table.Read

Lord Burlison

HE WAS the embodiment of those times when the steam from meat and potato pies cleared the nasal passages of the men on the football terraces, who would walk back through the factory gates on Monday mornings, trusting that their union negotiators would secure them decent working conditions.Read

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