David Charters

Professor Tony Bradshaw

NEAR the end, the new certificate hung on the wall above his bed. He smiled in that shy way of the Englishman, who knows deep within that he deserves it, but will always be too modest to tolerate such a suggestion from others.Read

Fred Crane

HE WAS, by his own admission, a small shard in a grand mosaic but his drawl was so full of southern comfort that he was immediately cast as one of the goo-kneed, ever-doting swains, who danced to the whims of Scarlett O’Hara.Read

David Charters: The British leg is best hidden from the gaze of strangers

A COUPLE of weeks back, I was strolling through the old town in a pair of long, green trousers, wondering whether offices in the thrilling new Britain should be fitted with food-drips dangling from the ceilings, so that the happy workers need never leave their desks.Read

David Charters: Some said it was the first true British rock and roll record

THEY were never what you would call close friends, but the circumstances of life had drawn them together on many occasions – starting on the school playground.Read

Simon Gray

HE HATED the modern world, or at least he professed to, though he perhaps gained more from its easy ways and lack of conviction than he was prepared to admit, as he swapped his legendary intake of Scotch for three bottles of Champagne a day before finally quitting, while acknowledging his lung cancer by switching to the milder Silk Cut cigarettes.Read

New book reveals the historic heritage of Liverpool’s famous open spaces

WE take our parklands for granted, but here David Charters reveals their originsRead

How we lit the Olympic flame

As the biggest audience in world history anticipates the Olympics in Beijing, we remember the Liverpool origins of the modern Games. David Charters reportsRead

George McNabb

HE DIED peacefully with his family around him, far away from the noisy, fog-cast docklands, where he grew up in a Liverpool community hardened by circumstances but never slow to embrace strangers.Read

Fund to restore Hulley’s grave

A FUND has been started to restore the grave of John Hulley, who rests in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road, Liverpool.Read

Artist Tony Brown with his portrait of George Harrison

Portrait of George Harrison completes epic work which recognises 100 Liverpool greats

WITH this magnificent portrait of George Harrison, a Liverpool artist has completed an epic work in praise of the city he loves.Read

Pauline Baynes

THERE was perhaps a sadness hidden in the smile of the white-haired lady from the lovely cottage, whose piercing imagination opened the world behind the blinds, where children could see everything and touch nothing.Read

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

HE WILL not be remembered for the laughter he brought us, but the man with the ever-mournful face had an intellect so big that it became the conscience of many, carrying the sorrows and hate of a world shredded by doctrine and greed.Read

David Charters: Sadly, steady work and red wine make uneasy partners

SOME people accept us for what we seem to be. Others want to know what we really are. The second group are the more important and dangerous, for they have a better understanding of human nature.Read

John Norman

THERE was, this being Wales, due consideration given to a cup of tea, but there was also dedication to the job, which arose from the enthusiasm of the workers.Read

Evelyn Keyes

IT WAS perhaps unfortunate that the sultry actress, whose bed was rarely cold, could have been married to her third husband at the time he was presented with a self-willed chimpanzee by another Hollywood siren,Read

Randy Pausch

HIS going was different – almost like a Hollywood weepie without the violins, soft voices and squeezed hands.Read

Spencer Leigh next to the John Lennon statue in Mathew Street, Liverpool

Spencer Leigh’s the rebel without a pause

"I HAVE been on film for longer than James Dean," says the authority on popular culture, as he settles his light frame on the corner of the double bed in the John Lennon suite at the Hard Days Night Hotel, Liverpool.Read

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

WHEN musing on Liverpool’s culture, our thoughts turn to the masters of baton, string and wind, letters, clay and canvas, but who was our first Renaissance man? David Charters reportsRead

David Charters: Summer holidays, like Christmas, are to be anticipated rather than enjoyed

‘GOOD Heavens! Teabags on strings, eh. Don’t we live in an exciting and ever-improving world,” I said to my wife, while the kettle burped and bupped to the boil, under the Italian-wood fittings of the kitchen, found behind the conservatory on the south wing of our home.Read

Harry McLeish who worked at Cammell Laird shipyard in 1939 when the submarine Thetis set sail.

Tragedy of the Thetis

SEVENTY years ago, a shipyard apprentice watched the launch of the Thetis. A year later she dived, and 99 men died. Now that apprentice lives with his memories. David Charters reports.Read

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