Liverpool Daily Post - Tag - history

History of EU funding in Merseyside

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

THE £450m tranche of funding proposed by Brussels – first revealed as a possibility by the Daily Post last October – would be the latest in a series of major aid packages aimed at bringing Merseyside in line with the average GDP of its European equals.

Chester walls exhibition to open

Liverpool Daily Post — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:00:00 GMT

AN EXHIBITION celebrating Chester’s famous city walls will open at the Grosvenor Museum this Saturday.

Story of the Liverpool Daily Post: Famous front pages from our history

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:00:00 GMT

TO MARK the Liverpool Daily Post's Freedom of the City award, here is a look back at historic front pages from the paper's past.

Draper behind an almost 100 year dynasty at TJ Hughes

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

FORMER draper Thomas J Hughes opened his store in 1912, with the maxim “buy expensive and sell cheap”.

Curriculum changes will see school history and geography lessons go back to basics

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

HISTORY and geography lessons are set to focus on facts and figures, under a new back-to-basics national curriculum planned by ministers.

History of Liverpool’s Superlambanana

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:40:00 GMT

SUPERLAMBANANA was originally created for the ArtTransPennine Exhibition in 1998, part of an initiative to create a “corridor of art” through the North of England.

Birkenhead's Cammell Laird has a long and eventful history

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:59:00 GMT

CAMMELL LAIRD was founded in 1824 as a boiler and ironworks in Birkenhead by Scottish entrepreneur William Laird.

Club with a 125-year history

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

CHESTER Football Club was founded in 1885 as an amalgamation of Chester Rovers and Old King’s Scholars. In the early years of the previous century, the club moved to its much loved stadium in Sealand Road. This remained home for 84 years until the final game against Rotherham, in April, 1990.

Fact File: Liverpool Town Hall

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:00:00 GMT

THE first Liverpool Town Hall was built on the same site as the current one in 1515.

Illustrious history of Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

CAMMELL Laird is one of the foremost names in the history of shipbuilding, and its illustrious history dates back to the 1820s when shipbuilding first began in Birkenhead under William Laird, a Scottish entrepreneur.