A lot of people from Liverpool will recognise the Royal Hotel (from historical photographs) that once stood outside Lime Street railway station. But beyond recognising the building, there’s not much that’s known about it aside from how it became a pub and was demolished in the 1960s.

The Royal Hotel was once owned by the Winslade hotelier family during the Victorian and Edwardian era until the 1930s.

We caught up with Dell Winslade for a heart-warming chat about his family’s legacy and how the book came to be.