For context, this is the County Sessions House on William Brown Street, Liverpool, and the above photo is from a film shoot in the 1990s
(I walked past it every day on my way to work for six years, so this particular bout of chronausea hits quite close to home!)
Much as the cultural chauvinist in me is enjoying the push for Scouse primacy, it’s worth noting that Liverpool and Manchester rose to prominence at the same time and long had a bitterly symbiotic relationship (until they went and built that bloody canal). A more dominant Liverpool means a less...
A large part of London’s expansion was public works projects: the Underground allowed urban and suburban expansion into ever more distant rural areas (Metroland being the ur-example of this, but there are greater or lesser examples from most lines), while Bazalgette’s sewer system made greater...
Carden and I went to the same school, and I can only imagine how obnoxious they’d be about counting a Prime Minister among the Old Edwardians. They haven’t shut up about Michael Edwards, and he’s been dead twenty years!
USS William D. Porter torpedoing the Iowa with FDR aboard would be high up on the list. Especially if FDR cops it due to insisting on being wheeled out to watch the torpedo go by.
Depending how creative one wanted to be, Harold Wilson was initially elected as an MP for Ormskirk, a seat which had long periods of being a Lab-Con (or Lab-NatLab) marginal. Huyton, his second seat, was also a pretty marginal constituency pretty much up until he became Labour leader.
Wilson as...
What do you do when you can't sleep? I personally chose to spend an hour painstakingly copying hexadecimal codes into the forum software to bring you this list in all its technicolour glory.
Coalition Coupon Retained [1]
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
For All Time was the timeline that led me to the AH online community due to being hosted on AH.com back in the day; I think it was similar for many people, so it probably ranks as one of the most influential works (if one that shows its flaws very readily).
What If Gordon Banks Had Played...