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Liverpool Greats
The Liverpool Greats
Liverpool has been home to many ‘great’ people – enough to adorn every street lamp from Bootle to Birkenhead. The ‘Greats’ – designed and painted by local artists and lining two city centre streets – will give you a glimpse of some of these people
LIVERPOOL GREAT – George Melly
Artist : Candida Boyes. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Liverpool, ‘George’ was an acclaimed Jazz & Blues singer as well as a surrealist art collector, TV and film critic, writer and lecturer.
He was instrumental in the successful restoration of Sefton Park Palm House in
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Tom Baker
Artist : Jo Daly. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Scotland Road, ‘Tom’ Baker took up acting as a hobby after spending six years training to be a monk.
Having caught the eye of Laurence Olivier, a successful film and TV career followed.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Ken Dodd
Artist : Michael Haselden. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Knotty Ash, Ken Dodd is one of Britain best loved comedians famous for his “tickling stick” and has also sold over 100 million songs worldwide.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Willy Russell
Artist : Sarah Broadfoot. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Whiston, ‘Willy’ is a multi-award winning dramatist, lyricist, and composer. He began writing for the Everyman Theatre in the early 1970’s while a teacher in Toxteth.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – John Lennon
Artist : Paul McKay. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Liverpool, John Lennon is best known for forming The Beatles – the world’s most successful pop music act
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Mel C
Artist : Sarah Ryan. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Whiston, Melanie is best known as ‘Sporty Spice’ as a band member of the Spice Girls – the best selling girl pop group of all time
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Cilla Black
Artist : Sarah-Jane Richards. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Scotland Road as Priscilla White, Cilla Black was the best-selling female recording artist in Britain during the 1960s
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Lizzie Christian
Artist : Sarah-Jane Richards. Location: Whitechapel
Born by Brownlow Hill and the eldest of twelve; ‘Lizzie’ brought up seven children and was a legendary flower seller in Clayton Square trading six days a week for more than 60 years.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Bill Shankly
Artist: Gill Smith. Location: Whitechapel
One of football’s most successful managers, ‘Bill’ arrived at 2nd division Liverpool FC in 1959 and by 1974 had laid the foundations of British and European dominance for a generation.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Dixie Dean
Artist : Mike Snowdon. Location: Whitechapel
Birkenhead-born ‘Dixie’ is one of the most prolific goal-scorers in English football history.
He famously netted 100 goals in Everton FC’s title winning 1927-28 season
LIVERPOOL GREAT – John Conteh
Artist : Anna Ketskemety. Location: Whitechapel
Born in Kirkby, John Conteh is one of Britain’s most successful boxers.
The 1970 Commonwealth middleweight champion he was World Light-Heavyweight champion from 1974-
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Beth Tweddle
Artist : Anna Ketskemety. Location: Whitechapel
A City of Liverpool gymnast, ‘Beth’ is the most successful British gymnast of all time with three World, five European and seven National titles.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Jean Alexander
Artist : Nicola McGovern. Location: William Brown St.
Born in Toxteth, Jean worked at Central Library before she became an actress.
Best known on TV as Hilda Ogden on Coronation Street, 1964–
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Bessie Braddock
Artist : Becka Griffin. Location: William Brown St.
‘Bessie’ was a Liverpool MP from 1945-70 and in 1968 became vice-chairman of the Labour Party.
She championed maternity, child welfare and youth crime issues.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Kitty Wilkinson
Artist : Sarah Ryan. Location: William Brown St.
Born in Londonderry, Kitty became known as the ‘saint of the slums’ after helping to establish that Cholera was a water bound illness after setting up a wash house.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Eleanor Rathbone
Artist : Linda Cattrall. Location: William Brown St.
A member of the great Liverpool Rathbone family, Eleanor was a noted campaigner for women’s rights and as an independent MP from 1929-46 was instrumental in establishing child benefit in the
LIVERPOOL GREAT – George Stubbs
Artist : Laura Bolton. Location: William Brown St.
The son of a Liverpool leather merchant, George Stubbs was a self-taught painter who went on to earn the patronage of the Prince of Wales.
His interest in anatomy revolutionised the painting of horses.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Frank Hornby
Artist : Christopher Murray. Location: William Brown St.
Born in Liverpool, Frank Hornby was one of the great toy manufacturers of the 20th century inventing Meccano and developing Dinky Toys and Hornby Model Railways
LIVERPOOL GREAT – John Archer
Artist : Karl Eversley. Location: William Brown St.
The child of a West Indian father and Irish mother, Liverpool-born John Archer was the first person of African descent to hold civic office in London, as Britain’s first black mayor in
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Arthur Dooley
Artist : Trevor Skempton. Location: William Brown St.
A time-served welder at Cammell Laird shipyard, Arthur’s ambition to be a sculptor took him to St. Martin’s School of Art where he first exhibited in 1962.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – William Roscoe
Artist : Amanda Oliphant. Location: William Brown St.
Brought up on Mount Pleasant, Roscoe was self taught and an internationally renowned poet, painter, art collector, botanist, lawyer, MP and anti-slavery campaigner.
LIVERPOOL GREAT – Seth Davy
Artist : Gill Smith. Location: William Brown St.
A West Indian sailor, Seth was a legendary puppeteer and street entertainer and inspired the 1960s folk song ‘Whisky on a Sunday’ by Glynn Hughes.
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