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The 'Totems' planned for St Nicholas Place seem to suggest the plans for the Superlambanana have indeed been shelved
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#LiverpoolBorn - Frank Hornby, 15th May 1863 at 77 Copperas Hill. Passed away Sept 1936......... leaving a great legacy
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11th May 1812 - The only assassination of a British Prime Minister.
Spencer Percival was shot by bankrupt Liverpool merchant John Bellingham, who had had been imprisoned in Russia in 1804. Bellingham was hanged on 18th May
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#LiverpoolBorn - Artist, Richard Ansdell, born 11th May 1815. Schooled at the Bluecoat. Passed away 1885.
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#Liverpool OTD - 1811: The last debtors are removed from the Borough Gaol, Water St., to the new gaol Great Howard Street. The crown prisoners were removed the following July
#Liverpool OTD - 1749: The first Liverpool Infirmary for the Sick was opened on Shaw's Brow (now William Brown St) by the Earl of Derby. Now site of Steble Fountain/Wellington Monument/St George's Plateau
Maps - 1765 and 1785
On This day - 1797: The town of #Liverpool is granted it's Coat of Arms
1855 would see the area between Crosshall and Sir Thomas St (Buildings) cleared, inc. Saracens Head, Flying Horse, Old White Lion Inn. It eventually became site of the Municipal Buildings, but in 1857 Hengler's Circus opened there, remaining until it closed on 14th March 1861
#LiverpoolBorn - William Gavin Herdman, 13th March 1805. He would started drawing old Liverpool buildings at the age of 13
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