#OTD - 1982: Nessie Shankly opens the 'Shankly Lounge' at the Liverpool Supporters Club, Lower Breck Road. Billy Liddell looks on

#Liverpool OTD - 2013: Official re-opening of the restored Florrie by Prince Charles.
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#Liverpool OTD - 1967: Topping out ceremony at the Playhouse extension

Hillsborough 96 posthumously awarded Freedom of Liverpool The 96 fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish are awarded the Freedom of Liverpool at a special ceremony.

#Liverpool OTD - 2016: Conferment of Honorary Freedom of the City of Liverpool upon those who lost their lives at Hillsborough. #JFT97
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This would have been a sight... 1939

#Liverpool OTD - 1981: Roy Castle is at Owen Owen

#Liverpool OTD - 1939: The first military barrage balloon ever to be flown on Merseyside is demonstrated at Sheil Park

Unfortunately lost to the Blitz, the Adelphi Bank, 19 South John Street, Liverpool, opened on the 28th March 1864.
Became Martins Bank in 1928

The new Hartley Locks development looking good as it nears completion...
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239 Westminster Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool. Carries the initials JAH, and a date of 1883 . Doctor James Alexander Hendry was a local doctor, and visiting surgeon to executions at Kirkdale Gaol. He passed away here in 1903. The house continued to be a doctors surgery for many years

Among the Liverpool-born crew that lost their lives was Capt. Fred J. Davis of 10 Strathmore Road, Newsham Park.

At 6:00p.m. on 27th March 1915 a passenger ship of Liverpool’s Elder Dempster Line left port bound for West Africa. Many of the crew were from Liverpool.
Falaba was torpedoed with the loss of 104 people, inc. Leon Thrasher, the first US citizen killed by the actions of a U-boat

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#Liverpool OTD - 1941: Bombing at Lace/Adlington Street results in 65+ deaths, including 12 from the Neary family

#Liverpool OTD - 1986: Willey Russell's new play Shirley Valentine opens at The Everyman

#Liverpool OTD - 1911: William Patrick Hitler is born to Alois Hitler and Brigid Dowling Hitler.
The family lodge at 102 Upper Stanhope Street, which was amongst the last properties bombed in the city (1941)

First licensed as Rothwell's Hotel in 1862, the Caledonia is now closed.
Once included a grand billiard room

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No.2 Rodney Street, Liverpool, was built c1830, and for over 80 years was residence of the Bickersteth family.
Dr. E. R. Bickersteth died here on 7th March 1908, leaving £342,955..... the equivalent of some £44million today!

She would be renamed Royal Daffodil in 1999, MV Overchurch came into service on 4th March 1962. Retired 2013... but is now moored in Canning Dock as the Daffodil bar & restaurant

#Ghostsigns Aigburth

Woolton Reservoir opened in 1864. The Water Tower is later than the Grade II Listing suggests, the foundation stone being laid in 1911

Tidespring A136 being skillfully maneuvered on the river again....

#Liverpool 28th Feb 1884 - 1,000 yearling trout are released into Sefton Park Lake 🎣🐟

27th February 1964

Alberto Remedios sings; You'll Never Walk Alone with his Brother Ramon & Friends. YouTube video by Richard Remedios

#LiverpoolBorn - Opera singer Alberto Remedios, 27th Feb 1935
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We have the Eros Fountain, and Peter Pan, in Sefton Park to thank him for.
Mr. George Audley passed away on 25th Feb 1932, sadly before the fountain was unveiled.

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Parliament Place, Liverpool.
Built c1837. The granite setts were re-laid in 1991

#LiverpoolBorn - George Harrison, 25th February 1943, 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree.
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