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LIVERPOOL AND THE SLAVE TRADEAs I said this video only scratches the surface on the Slave Trade. I want to look at my cities involvement in the Selling of slaves. From street names that are called after slave merchants to the rebuilding of our town hall the slave trade is a relevant today as it ever was with African migrants being sold as slaves in Lybia.
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The Black Widow Sisters Of Liverpool
The black widow sisters of Liverpool Catherine and Margret
William Mackenzie: The Man Beneath The Pyramid
Mackenzie 15 foot Pyramid sits in St Andrews Cemetery, Rodney St, Liverpool. This legend is decades old, Mr Mackenzie entombed sitting upright in his Pyramid. As the anniversary of his passing arrives we thought it was time he was laid to rest away from the tour groups who clamber outside St Andrews Cemetery. There are numerous Pyramids in the UK similar to this and legends attached one famous pyramid is that of Mad Jack Fuller, it was said Jack was sitting at a table inside his 25 foot pyramid with a chicken roast dinner and a bottle of red wine. This was proved untrue during renovations in 1982.
a stroll around flaybrick cemetery
With over 100,000 bodies laid to rest here it home to countless sightings and urban legends. Its a n amazing place with a vast 26 acres of land. Legends strech far and wide from a Half Man Half Wolf Person to the spirit of a Nun
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Liverpool's' most famous resting place: St James' is the resting place of many of the cities and the worlds great, good and powerful. From the blind poet and anti slave trade campaigner Edward Rushton to one of Admiral Nelsons captains this place is full of history as well as a fair share of legends
A Brief History Of The Necropolis: Liverpool's Oldest
The Necropolis is Liverpool's' Oldest Graveyard. dating from the early 1800's
This once wonderful graveyard is now nothing but flattened grass with one monument signalling its past stature
This once wonderful graveyard is now nothing but flattened grass with one monument signalling its past stature