Audio Resources
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Lines on the death of William Huskisson MP, 15th September, 1830 by John Cooper Clarke
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 5th June 2013 | 0 Comments
In cinch-back strides and a pinchback coat patrician stock about the throat then crash bang wallop that’s all she wrote lending more than a melancholy air to the first rail journey anywhere William Huskisson sadly died when he and Stephenson’s Rocket did collide he got his ticket but he never got to ride tragic yes but c’est la guerre it was the first rail journey anywhere the... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Railway Song by Roy the Taxi Driver
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 5th June 2013 | 0 Comments
From Newcastle to Liverpool came down the rocket man. To start a revolution had, long since been his plan. To get the world a moving for years had been his dream. On two long tracks all made of steel, and an engine powered by steam. So plans were made and tracks were laid for the Rainhill loco trials. and crowds had gathered down the course that stretched out for three... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Brian Morris explains why children were much better behaved in the old days!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris explains that he always had to behave himself because if he strayed off the beaten track, his father, who owned a shop in Smithdown Road and was therefore a well-known local figure, would be told - apparently a “fate worse than death”!... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping
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Brian Morris remembers the gas lamps at Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris talks about the glow from the gas lamps at Edge Hill station, something he especially liked, and how communication were sent, presumably to signalboxes, by Morse code... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Brian Morris recalls the various locomotive classes he used to see.
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris talks about how he keeps cigarette cards which depict locomotives, and how these help him identify different locomotive classes. He refers to the Coronation Class, but wrongly states that they were numbered from 6200 to 6233: in fact they were numbered 6220 to 46257 (the last locomotive in the Class, City of Salford, was built after nationalisation and so only ever carried its British Rail number, with the hypothetical LMS number increased... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives
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Brian Morris remembers the bombing of the station in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris talks about how Edge Hill station was frequently targeted by German bombers in the Second World War. One famous incident was when a man unhooked an ammunition wagon in Deane Road and drove it away, at great personal risk, to prevent it from going off and blowing up the station: he received a medal for his efforts. He also mentions the infamous bombing of Durning Road, and how... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Brian Morris remembers trainspotting as a boy
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 2 Comments
Brian Morris tells of how he saw horses delivering goods to Edge Hill, and how each locomotive had a number to show where it was based, with those based at the Edge Hill shed numbered 8B. He also talks about different sized locomotives, and Wavertree station. Wavertree was opened on 1st September 1870 between Edge Hill and Sefton Park, on the London and North Western Railway’s main line south of... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Brian Morris talks about the pigeons at Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris remembers how people from pigeon clubs would bring their pigeons in crates to Edge Hill before they would be sent by rail to the south of England: when pigeons were being trained they would be made to fly progressively longer distances. Pigeon fanciers were apparently much more common in those days than they are now. Brian also recalls watching double-header 13-coach trains travelling to London... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Brian Morris recalls seeing prisoners of war in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris remembers how, during the Second World War, he saw American soldiers and Axis prisoners of war uploaded from troopships at the now-defunct Riverside station on the Docks - at Edge Hill, the last two coaches would be detached and pushed down to George’s Dock, and people would disembark from the train and board the ships, and the POWs were put on this train.... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Brian Morris remembers seeing the royal train in 1937
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 2nd November 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Morris remembers watching the royal train at the Coronation of King George VI in 1937: he was able to see it at Lime Street station. In addition, he was one of the local schoolchildren who put on a display for the King and Queen (the future Queen Mother) in the playground in Wavertree (known as The Mystery): dressed in red, white and blue, they danced and paraded, and finally laid... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives
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Brian Willcox talks more about the area around Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox mentions the stables on Tunnel Road, which housed horses belonging to the railway, and the famous Williamson Tunnels.... Read more
Categorised under: Landmarks, Landscapes & Locomotives
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Brian Willcox remembers how a woman he knew mysteriously became a cone of light!
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox supplies yet another ghost story, this time about an unspecified woman whom he knew who one night got out of the car in which Brian and his wife were also present, and whose body disappeared and turned into a cone of light! Perhaps just as bizarrely, when Brian mentioned it to her the following night, she could not recall either the strange occurrence or even getting out of... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Brian Willcox tells more ghost stories
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox tells two more ghost stories. On one occasion, his wallet went missing from his pocket, and he and his wife looked all over - including three times in his pocket - without success, so Brian reported his wallet’s disappearance to the police, only to then discover that his wallet had been in his pocket all along! At another time, the postman pushed four letters through the letter... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Brian Willcox remembers growing up in Liverpool
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Although Brian Willcox’s family moved to Weaveham when he was young, he still has some memories of life in Liverpool. He produces a photograph of his younger self, and then tells of how he and his friends would jump onto trams and hold onto the sides - however, the conductor pulled down the rope and whipped Brian, causing him to fall off and break his teeth, something he explained... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Brian Willcox recalls being sent to the pigsty when he was evacuated in the Second World War
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox talks briefly about his early life and then moves on to how he was evacuated to Wales, with four of his aunts, in the Second World War. He would wet the bed, and the woman who took him first beat him with a pear tree branch, then made him sleep in the dolls’ cot, and finally made him spend a day in the pigsty, forbidding him to eat... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Brian Willcox tells a ghost story relating to Edge Hill station
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 14th September 2012 | 0 Comments
Brian Willcox talks about how, one night, he and his wife, aiming to travel back to their home in Weaverham, Cheshire, caught their usual train from Edge Hill at 10 minutes past 11 at night: however, there was an eerie feeling, the toilets were in the Victorian style, and then, to cap it all off, a disembodied arm and hand opened the door to Brian and his wife’s compartment and sat... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers
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Fred Foley remembers working as a projectionist at the Capital cinema
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Foley remembers working as a projectionist at the Capital cinema, or the ‘Cappy’, while he was still at school. He remembers the two big projection machines and how he was taught how to use it by the Chief Projectionist.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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Fred Foley remembers his father working at the docks
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 0 Comments
Fred Foley remembers his father’s occupation as a ship repairer at the docks and how he would only be employed for short periods of time.... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Fred Foley remembers Edge Hill just after the war
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Foley remembers a yard where war surplus was kept at the bottom of Overbury Street. He also explains how he was born on the Wirral because his family were evacuated.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, The War
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Fred Foley remembers Troughton Street
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 25th July 2012 | 1 Comments
Fred Foley remembers Troughton Street, where he lived, and growing up in the local area, including his first pint and his confusion over his religious beliefs.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities
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