http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/authors/ Authors en-gb Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk no Authors Authors http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/22/adding-colour-to-the-beautiful-game-64375-22315005/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/22/adding-colour-to-the-beautiful-game-64375-22315005/ Then, they were just articles about Liverpool in a boys’ football magazine. Now, they have been compiled into an evocative social history. David Charters reports http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/21/irving-brecher-64375-22307764/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/21/irving-brecher-64375-22307764/ THE gag is fast, like the pull of a cracker. The boy understood that and his naturally quick wit was sharpened in the Bronx, where a swift tongue was as good as fast fists. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/19/obituary-edgar-holloway-64375-22290514/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/19/obituary-edgar-holloway-64375-22290514/ ONCE, a cad seeking a spot of hanky-panky would invite the simpering maiden back to his room to inspect the etchings. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/david-charters/2008/11/18/david-charters-new-radiators-are-slim-slick-quiet-and-soulless-64375-22279343/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/david-charters/2008/11/18/david-charters-new-radiators-are-slim-slick-quiet-and-soulless-64375-22279343/ Yes, goose pimples spread on English flesh with the natural ease of winter leaves falling on a rugby field. We talk of the weather, yet we have never been able to cope with its moods. Do your buttocks still warm to the memory of the grand radiators, which were as much part of our beloved England as the steady rhythm of drips in the bus shelter? See and hear them again, those stout concertinas of iron – grumbling and rumbling, puffing and gasping out their heat in the old schools, hospitals, parish halls, barracks, pavilions, offices and factories. Invariably, they were stationed beneath an iced widow, which rattled in its slots, releasing wicked gusts of chilled air. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/18/obituary-reg-varney-64375-22279314/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/18/obituary-reg-varney-64375-22279314/ IN THE days when it was taken as a matter of course that bus drivers were cheeky and the cemetery was the “last stop”, he sat at the steering-wheel, his face crumpled beneath a peaked cap, oozing Cockneyisms of the knees-up Mother Brown, Cor Blimey! and jellied eels variety. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/17/gateway-to-the-world-s-great-cities-64375-22276538/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:49:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/17/gateway-to-the-world-s-great-cities-64375-22276538/ AS the historic centre of international trade, Liverpool is the first host of a conference dedicated to the past and future of the world’s great waterfront cities. David Charters reports http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/17/obituary-jack-scott-64375-22272072/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/17/obituary-jack-scott-64375-22272072/ SOME people think that fashion writers dictate what we wear. Maybe. But the man with the big teeth and bushy eyebrows was certainly in charge of bus-stop apparel. The unfurled umbrellas, pac-a-macs and galoshes were on parade because of him. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/14/obituary-mitch-mitchell-64375-22254489/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/14/obituary-mitch-mitchell-64375-22254489/ WHEN rock musicians were gods, he perched in the highest heaven, slapping his skins in a style known as fusion because it borrowed from other traditions. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/13/obituary-harold-cooper-64375-22245380/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/13/obituary-harold-cooper-64375-22245380/ IN AMERICA, home of rock and roll, milk bars, sulky teenagers and colas, they had Levis. Well, they always did have to do everything bigger and better than everyone else. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/12/obituary-miriam-makeba-64375-22234192/ Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/12/obituary-miriam-makeba-64375-22234192/ SHE was a dignified and passionate lady possessed of immense inner power, who became known as Mama Africa, as she sang to the world. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/11/11/100-faces-with-a-story-to-tell-64375-22222332/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/11/11/100-faces-with-a-story-to-tell-64375-22222332/ You’re just a face in the crowd until the man takes your photograph for posterity. David Charters reports on an electronic gallery. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/11/obituary-kevin-finnegan-64375-22223744/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/11/obituary-kevin-finnegan-64375-22223744/ TOWARDS the end, the great hands, which once flattened the faces of brave men and had added vivid touches to fine paintings, would rub the head of his old dog. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2008/11/11/it-was-in-the-car-after-the-funeral-that-the-man-told-me-the-parable-of-the-old-guitar-64375-22223756/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2008/11/11/it-was-in-the-car-after-the-funeral-that-the-man-told-me-the-parable-of-the-old-guitar-64375-22223756/ More than 30 years had gone since last I saw Pablo. He lived then in the high flats overlooking the docks. Everyone called him Pablo because he looked like a young soldier home from some Mexican revolution – with the hat, gaudy shirt, neckerchief, black hair and the slow-staring brown eyes, which settled in your soul, like the picture of a gambling man rocking lazily on his chair while checking the aces and jacks in his hand. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/10/obituary-sydney-lucas-64375-22220154/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/10/obituary-sydney-lucas-64375-22220154/ HE WILL not be remembered for what he did there, or even for being there because he arrived too late, but he will be remembered on the day of the Armistice for being willing to go there. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/08/doughty-performer-alongside-blue-c-64375-22209563/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/08/doughty-performer-alongside-blue-c-64375-22209563/ LAP-STYLE slide guitar player Tom Doughty joins Liverpool blues duo Blue C for a slide guitar feast at the monthly Blues On The Rock club at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, tomorrow. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/08/the-men-who-provided-an-enduring-image-of-britain-at-war-64375-22209553/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/11/08/the-men-who-provided-an-enduring-image-of-britain-at-war-64375-22209553/ A brief history of a Wirral Home Guard platoon has been republished to give us a poignant picture of the men defying Hitler. David Charters reports http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/07/obituary-madelyn-dunham-64375-22202820/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/07/obituary-madelyn-dunham-64375-22202820/ HE CALLED her “Toot”, the Hawaiian equivalent of nanna, and the boy certainly owed much to the lady who had taken him touring across the USA on a Greyhound bus. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/05/obituary-louis-studs-terkel-64375-22185736/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/05/obituary-louis-studs-terkel-64375-22185736/ DURING these momentous days for America, the great listener – the man, who, like a gardener, knew his country from its roots, through the flowers, weeds and sturdy plants – was dying in his city. They would have liked to hear his voice today, those tones matured in cigar smoke. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/04/obituary-tony-hoare-64375-22175876/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/11/04/obituary-tony-hoare-64375-22175876/ WITH his titfer set at a cheeky angle over arching eyebrows, the young man, who had regularly raised his arm to the teachers’ questions, was likely to succeed at something. The question was what. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2008/11/04/most-human-endeavours-are-either-futile-or-ridiculous-i-whispered-to-myself-while-herding-our-two-rabbits-milly-and-molly-from-the-lawn-to-their-hutch-using-an-old-yard-brush-which-they-are-supposed-to-think-is-a-fierce-predator-with-me-gripping-the-end-of-its-tail-64375-22175875/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2008/11/04/most-human-endeavours-are-either-futile-or-ridiculous-i-whispered-to-myself-while-herding-our-two-rabbits-milly-and-molly-from-the-lawn-to-their-hutch-using-an-old-yard-brush-which-they-are-supposed-to-think-is-a-fierce-predator-with-me-gripping-the-end-of-its-tail-64375-22175875/ This is a routine. Each morning I release them from the hutch, to which I return them each night, after earning my carrot at the office. For long, in the generosity of their spirit, the rabbits have known that our brush is just that, a brush. Even so, they skip before its rasping advance to spare my feelings, before leaping into the hutch with all the insouciance of the young.