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STORIES – Health

HEALTH PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS Liverpool lays claims to some startling discoveries of international significance, in the advance of modern medicine. One such event is the first use in this country of an x-ray machine for surgical purposes – In 1896, Professor Oliver Lodge assisted the orthopaedic

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STORIES – Arts & Entertainment

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS In the arts, Liverpool was home to the first lending library, the Athenaeum Society, arts centre and public art conservation centre. Liverpool is also home to the UK’s oldest surviving classical orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Liverpool also had

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STORIES – Sports

SPORTS PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS Sporting legends: Max Woosman, Lottie Dodd, Ben Kay, Bill Shankly, John Conteh, James Clarke, Beth Tweddle, Stephen Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Francis Jeffers, Howard Gayle, Jenny Tinmouth, Natasha Jonas, Wayne Rooney, Micheal Owen to name but a few… As well as being home

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STORIES – Social Justice & Radicals

SOCIAL JUSTICE & RADICALS PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS Joseph Williamson, the “King of Edge Hill” was one of Liverpool’s greatest philanthropists, employing hundreds of men at a time of depression and widespread poverty and unemployment following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. He began what may have

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STORIES – Open Spaces & Architecture

ARCHITECTURE & OPEN SPACES PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS The pyramid in the churchyard in Rodney Street provides a very interesting story – spookily appropriate to a winter installation. The legend has it that William McKenzie lost his soul to the devil in a card game, and tried

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