Neston and Parkgate

History

Pearson, Jeffrey

Europe

Countyvise

This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a paperback book first published in 2001 by Picton Press (Liverpool) 14 Appin Rd., Birkenhead, CH41 9HH. It is filled with black and white photos and illustrations. This study serves as a testimony to Liverpool's great but forgotten early Black community. It tells the story of people whose lives may have seemed mundane, but whose daily struggles were heroic in a difficult period for Black people.

Black Liverpool

Costello, Ray

Living with danger: The memoirs of a bomb disposal officer

Beckingham, H. W

Biographies & Memoirs

Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, this book explores Neston's 1000 year history.

Neston & Parkgate remembered

HMS "Eaglet"

Bob Evans

Military

An in-depth look at the Viking settlers from Norway who arrived on the Wirral peninsula. 1100 years ago a group of Viking settlers from Norway arrived somewhere between Vestri-Kirkjubur (West Kirby) and Melr (Meols) on the shores of north Wirral - a small peninsula lying between the Rivers Dee and Mersey - having been driven out of Ireland. This initiated a mass migration of their fellow countrymen into the area and soon they had established a community with a clearly defined border, its own leader, its own language, a trading port, and at its center a place of assembly or government - the Thing at A ingvollr (Thingwall). This community was answerable to nobody else: the English, the Welsh, the Dublin Norse, the Isle of Man, Iceland, and not even Norway. The Wirral Norse settlement therefore satisfied all the criteria of an independent, self-governing Viking State - albeit a mini one!This book, written by Wirral-exile and scientist Steve Harding, is about these people, why they left Norway, where they settled, their religion, their pastimes - such as horse-racing at Irby and rock-climbing at Wallasey - and the legends that have been attributed to them - including the awesome Thor's Stone at 'Thorsteinn's farmstead'. Wirral was also probably witness to one of the greatest battles in the history of the British Isles - Brunanburh.

Ingimund's Saga

Harding, Stephen

In September 1939, aged only seven years old, June Matthews faces sudden separation from her parents and her familiar life in a poor district of London. With thousands of other city children, she is evacuated to the countryside under 'Operation Pied Piper', and finds herself living with strangers in a small farming village in Hertfordshire. She learns to love the countryside and the ways of the village; she makes friends, tries her hand at catching rabbits, and narrowly escapes sexual assault by a young soldier. In many ways it is the return to her London home six years later which proves more traumatic for her: now an independent minded teenager, she finds family life difficult in many ways, not least because of the appallingly cramped and impoverished living conditions which her family is forced to endure as a result of the post-war housing shortage. Carefully researched and honestly written, this autobiographical memoir recalls many episodes of joy, pain, danger, and humour. June's account of her personal experiences is enriched by a wealth of historical references detailing the progress of the war on the Home Front.

Waiting for the Bluebirds

June Matthews

The Maybrick A to Z

Christopher Jones

Wirral Worthies: The Lives of Twelve Remarkable Men and One Woman Who Made Wirral Famous

Wood, Andy

John Gibson R.A.: The World of the Master Sculptors

Hussey, John

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