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Mal Evans by Guest Blogger Jackie Spencer

HMV Liverpool One South John Street L1

1 December 2011

Facebook helpfully reminded me this morning that 5 years ago today I was lucky enough to meet the late George Harrison's wife Olivia at a book signing event held at the large HMV Store in Liverpool One. Here's some photos and memories of the night.
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Stanley Abattoir Athletic and Social Club, Prescot Road, Old Swan, Liverpool L13

There had been a market for livestock in the Old Swan area since 1830. Stanley Market was on a main corporation tram route, Prescot Road being the main road from Liverpool to the manufacturing districts of East Lancashire and Yorkshire. The site was acquired by Liverpoo...

Stockton Wood Infants School,All Saints RoadSpeke,LiverpoolL24 3TF


Stockton Wood School in the late 1980s (source: Facebook)
In the 1930s, Liverpool Council had little choice but to start building large housing estates on the outskirts of the city. By 1939, three sites had been bought, but the outbreak of the Second World War brought most new buildin...

Sir Thomas White Gardens, St. Domingo Road, Everton, Liverpool 5
The McCartneys in Everton  (1945-1947)

St. Domingo Road, Everton at the time the McCartneys lived here. The chimneys of "Tommy Whites" are visible on the top left of the hill. (L.R.O)

Taken almost from the same position as the previou...