Heritage

New project aims to tell the stories of former dockers

Issue 

Artists and oral historians, John J. Campbell and Moira Kenny: The Sound Agents, were awarded a £10,000 grant from Awards for All for The Dockers Club: Jobs for Life oral history project. They worked in partnership with Sefton Libraries and

Scottie Press to help deliver most inclusive Census yet

Issue March

Scottie Press is teaming up with the Office for National Statistics to deliver the most inclusive Census yet. For the first time ever, the census form will ask questions on people’s sexuality and gender identities — paving the way for

Documentary: The ‘95 to ‘98 Liverpool Dockers Photography Exhibition by Dave Sinclair

Issue February

‘In September 1995, 500 Mersey Dock and Harbour workers were sacked for not crossing a picket line set up by sacked Dockers from a small stevedore firm called Torside. They were then in dispute for two and a half years.

Scottie Press Open for Submissions for the 50th Anniversary Edition

Issue December

Britain’s longest-running community newspaper is about to reach an incredible milestone. That’s right, Scottie Press is turning 50!

Ghost Town – A Liverpool Shadowplay by Walton-born author Jeff Young

Issue November

Every now and then a book comes along that hits me right between the eyes and I’ve got to tell everyone I know about it. Much to my delight I’ve not had ONE person come back to me and say

Can you help support an exciting new community heritage project?

Issue November

Piecing together the past: My Grandmother 1886 – 1967

Issue August

I can’t remember speaking to my grandmother, but I do remember her sitting in the corner of a large sitting room dressed in dark clothes, she seemed incomprehensively old to me, I was five, and she was around eighty years

Dr. Duncan changed the nation’s health

Issue 446

YOUNG Liverpool born doctor William Henry Duncan saw the terrible insanitary living conditions in his home city at first hand – especially in the court and cellar housing of Vauxhall district’s north Liverpool dockland.

James Muspratt – Pollution in Vauxhall – 1838

Issue 445

Air pollution in the Vauxhall area is nothing new. In 1838 James Muspratt was brought to trial in Liverpool for ‘causing a nuisance’. And what exactly was that ‘nuisance’ ? Thick white smoke containing hydrochloric acid, belching from factory chimneys.