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From the Ashes of War...
Bootle was bombed more than any other part of the UK during World War Two, as the German Bombers aimed for the docks to stop the...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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Hope springs eternal...
Spring Onion!!! The Big Onion is a business run by Merseyside Expanding Horizons based in Bootle Strand. It is a business, enterprise,...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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'Stop talking the town down!' - The town is actually being 'downed'... Sefton North and South...
A Bootle bin. Great to see it being put to good use, even if not emptied. Southport lift. The very same Southport lift.
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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The Idea of North Part 11... Sefton...
The Triad and its base in Bootle in Eastern Europe. A memorial to those killed in direct hits on Bomb Shelters in Bootle during World War...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Dark Places in Old England - Northern Exposure Part 10
As a child I used to mess about in alleyways - taking shortcuts etc, but I guess gating them off makes it harder for burglars and...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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The Red Trees of Old England - Northern Exposure 9
This tree went completely cherry red one year. Was beautiful. Just a tint of it this year, although I think it was redder last week! The...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Northern Exposure - Part Eight
The 'new' Crosby Baths is no longer new. I remember the old one. A tall rectangle with a very very high diving board. Did some...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 25, 20241 min read
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The Ideas of the North - Part 7
The Towers of the Docks. A mechanised docks. Machines. A few little jobs in Free Trade Zones untouched by law and society. As a child my...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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The Idea of North Part 6 - Only love can mend a broken heart...
This floor here used to be bustling with people. The bottom section of Bootle Strand just down the stairs ahead is about to be renovated...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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The Idea of North - Part 5 - The Old and the New
Once upon a time a lot of people locally worked in the Giro Bank in Bootle. It brought the Manhattan to the lands north of Liverpool....
TIMOTHY SHORT
Aug 20, 20243 min read
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The Ideas of the North - 4 - Fire Still Rising - literally the night before...
Lots of variety on show here in the architecture of these blocks... The last really high block curves out like the front of a ship....
TIMOTHY SHORT
Aug 4, 20242 min read
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The Idea of North Part 3 - The Middle Passage
The Church of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bootle. Anyone pointing out the history of Bellarmine might be called Woke and we can't be having...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Jul 28, 20242 min read
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Photographs - The Idea of North Part 2 - The Fire Rises
T U B E The Underworld Begins Every-night - Beneath the world are rocks and elements and all kinds of stuff going back ages. If you go...
TIMOTHY SHORT
Jul 25, 20243 min read
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