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March 25 1938 The Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News @BNArchive Messrs Topham @AintreeRaces

March 21 1874 The Illustrated Sporting And Dramatic News @BNArchive The trees around Becher's were poplar The inner rail was close to being complete The Table fence, close to the Anchor crossing, was removed @AintreeRaces

May 2 1925 The Illustrated London News @BNArchive The expansion of the offices of the Liverpool Echo, Daily Post, and previously the Liverpool Mercury, in the centre of the city.

December 13 1890 The Graphic @BNArchive The recently opened Walker Engineering Laboratory @liverpool_uni on Brownlow Hill Funded by Andrew Walker, son of the brewer Peter Walker

The Graphic June 3 1893 @BNArchive Proposed high-level bridge crossing the Mersey #Liverpool #Birkenhead

1840 March 4 Liverpool Standard The course and fences at Aintree. The fences were slightly easier than in 1839 Two circuits of the course (4-5 miles) @AintreeRaces Grateful thanks to @SeftonLibraries @BNArchive

Liverpool Mercury March 1 1839 Lead up to and running of the first Grand National 18 runners - 1 fatality-Dictator The journalist disagreed with its description, elsewhere. as "a great national event" @AintreeRaces @BNArchive

187 years ago today February 26 1839 the 1st Grand National 1839 March 1 Liverpool Mercury FC Turner was commisioned to produce 4 paintings to commemorate the 1st running of the Liverpool Grand Steeple Chase Prints - 3 guineas (£526-£570 today) @AintreeRaces @BNArchive

The Builder May 4 1889 St Clare's Church Sefton Park Liverpool

Season 14 Masked Singer (US) Crane sings Whitney Houston's It's Not Right It's Okay A fairly hard to beat finale #maskedsinger

The Builder February 28 1885 The original James Street Station (Liverpool) building and a sectional view thereof, showing the station master's house on the top floor Hamilton Square Station, Birkenhead #Liverpool #Railway

Bootle Reform Club Stanley Road Liverpool Mercury December 31 1883 Mr W Dent Dent laying the foundation stone Liverpool Mercury October 23 1885 Opening by the Earl of Derby Later Stanley Hall St Martin's Salesian College Bootle Demolished 1966 #Bootle #ReformClub

February 12 1892 Illustrated London News Report on the destruction of Crosby lighthouse, with the loss of three lives. A photo of the lamp room shows the probable seat of the fire #Crosby #Sefton

Bootle Times September 22 1988. #bootle @Bootle_FC @BootleTimes

Building News and Engineering Journal May 31 1861 16/17 Beach Lawn Waterloo Early work of Henry Sumners Built for Dr John James Drysdale (1816-1890) of Rodney Street Liverpool 17, on the left, sold for £400k by Venmore Auctions Sept 7 2022 #Waterloo #Sefton

Series 14 of The Masked Singer (US) starts this week Probably the best performance of the last series was given by Ant singing Pink's Just Give Me A Reason in Episode 1 #maskedsinger

The Beginning and End of the Universe (2016) @BBC My take In the void, the cosmos began to decompress The space allowed dark energy/matter (ibid) to quantise the cosmos in an instant Quantum mechanics gave birth to the cosmos The big bang was its growing pains

Paul Simon plays the M&S Bank Arena May 7 2026 This from Later... With Jools Holland (2016) The Sound Of Silence Been listening to it for 61 years I'll get tired of it one day #songwriter #classic #music

Liverpool Echo Saturday December 7 1963 Quiet day at The Empire with The Beatles filming Juke Box Jury #Beatles #Liverpool

My dad's two favourite players were Dixie Dean and Hughie Gallacher Liverpool Evening Express June 21 1926 An account of Dixie Dean's motorcycle accident. Liverpool Evening Express July 8 1926 Dixie's release from hospital. @thetoffees_com #Everton