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RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD LIVERPOOL
BY A NONAGENARIAN.
entered at sta.hall
price 3/6
liverpool.
j. f. hughes,
1863
2nd. 1,000.
p.iCONTENTS.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I.
Birth of Author; Strong Memory; A Long-lived Family; Tree in St.Peter’s Church-yard; Cruelty of Town Boys; The Ducking-stool; TheFlashes in Marybone; Mode of Ducking; George the Third’s Birthday;Frigates; Launch of the Mary Ellen; The Interior of a Slaver; LiverpoolPrivateers; Unruly Crews; Kindness of Sailors; Sailors’ Gifts;Northwich Flatmen; The Salt Trade; The Salt Tax; The Salt Houses;Salt-house Dock; The White House and Ranelagh Gardens; Inscription over theDoor; Copperas-hill; Hunting a Hare; Lord Molyneux; Miss Brent;Stephens’ Lecture on Heads; Mathews “At Home”; BrownlowHill; Mr. Roscoe; Country Walks; Moss Lake Fields; Footpads; Fairclough(Love) Lane; Everton Road; Loggerheads Lane; Richmond Row; The Hunt ClubKennels.
CHAPTER II.
The Gibson’s; Alderman Shaw; Mr. Christian; Folly Tavern; Gardensin Folly Lane; Norton Street; Stafford Street; Pond by Gallows Mill;Skating in Finch Street; Folly Tower; Folly Fair; Fairs in Olden Times;John Howard the Philanthropist; The Tower Prison; Prison Discipline; GrossAbuses; Howard presented with Freedom; Prisons of 1803; Description ofBorough Gaol; Felons; Debtors; Accommodations; Escape of Prisoners; Cells;Courtyards; Prison Poultry; Laxity of Regulations; Garnish; Fees; Fever;Abuses; Ball Nights; Tricks played upon “Poor Debtors”;Execution of Burns and Donlevy for Burglary; Damage done by FrenchPrisoners; their Ingenuity; The Bridewell on the Fort; Old Powder Magazine;Wretched State of the Place; Family Log; Durand—His Skill; Escape ofPrisoners—Their Recapture; Durand’s Narrative—HisRecapture; House of Correction; Mrs. Widdows.
The Volunteers; Liverpool in ‘97; French Invasion; Panic;Warrington Coach; The Fat Councillor; Excitement in Liverpool; ItsDefences; French Fisherman; Spies; Pressgangs—Cruelty Practised;Pressgang Rows; Woman with Three Husbands; Mother Redcap—HerHiding-places; The Passage of the River; Ferrymen; Woodside Ahoy!; Cheshirean Unknown Country to Many; Length of passage there; The Rock Perch;Wrecking; Smuggling; Storms; Formby Trotters; Woodside—No Dwellingsthere; Marsh Level; Holt Hill—Oxton; Wallasey Pool; BirkenheadPriory; Tunnel under the Mersey; Tunnel at the Red Noses—Explorationof it; The Old Baths; Bath Street; The Bath Woman; The Wishing Gate; BootleOrgans; Sandhills; Indecency of Bathers; The Ladies Walk; Mrs. Hemans; theLoggerheads; Duke Street; Campbell the Poet; Gilbert Wakefield; Dr.Henderson; Incivility of the Liverpool Clergy; Bellingham—His Careerand History, Crime, Death; Peter Tyrer; The Comfortable Coach.
CHAPTER IV.
Colonel Bolton; Mr. Kent; Geor