Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Henry Park (The Surgeon) 1745-1831

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Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Henry Park (The Surgeon) 1745-1831

Henry Park was born on March 2nd, 1745, in Water Street, one of two boys and three girls, and he was baptised in the nearby St Nicholas Church. Henry’s father was an…

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Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Captain Kinley and the May Blitz 1941

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Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Captain Kinley and the May Blitz 1941

Liverpool endured a harrowing time in the Second World War as a major target for the enemy, suffering great devastation, both in her communities and infrastructure. In the first week of May 1941 alone, Liverpool experienced the heaviest bombing of the war in Britain outside London.

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Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Ruth Harwood Bowker - Titanic Survivor

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Liverpool Bite-size Histories: Ruth Harwood Bowker - Titanic Survivor

When the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world, the Olympic, visited Liverpool on 31 May 1911, one young woman was so taken with the ship that she decided her future was no longer with a Liverpool confectioner where she was working, but with the White Star Line on this sumptuous vessel. Not only did she live her dream, but she was also later transferred to the sister ship, the even larger Titanic, due to sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. This was Ruth Harwood Bowker, and this is her forgotten story.

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