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The history of Liverpool can be traced back to 1190 when the place was known ... there was an influx of Irish people into Liverpool. Almost 300,000 arrived in 1847 ...
A project for a railway between Liverpool, Crosby and Southport was proposed in 1846, surveys were undertaken and parliamentary notices given. The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway (LC&SR) received parliamentary approval on 2 July 1847 and the company was incorporated, the first directors' meeting on 26 July 1847 elected William Blundell ...
Ongoing – Great Famine (Ireland): this summer's potato crop is free from blight, but inadequate due to the small area sown. [20] The British Relief Association is founded and raises money throughout England, the United States and Australia to relieve distress, with the help of the "Queen's Letters", two letters from Queen Victoria appealing for assistance.
Picture of Liverpool; or, Stranger's Guide (2nd ed.), Liverpool: Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson, 1808, OL 25319603M; John Corry (1810), The history of Liverpool, from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time, Liverpool: William Robinson "Liverpool". Commercial Directory for 1818-19-20.
Elections to Liverpool Town Council were held on Wednesday 1 November 1847. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years. Four of the sixteen wards were uncontested.
The second act was the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. cclxi), which allowed the corporation to buy out the private water companies, and subsequent acts authorised the construction of reservoirs, initially on Rivington Pike, where a total of eight reservoirs were eventually completed, most of the work being overseen ...
With a steady rise of ‘pauper immigration’ Liverpool saw previously vacated cellars once again used out of desperation - causing cholera and typhus to spread rapidly. In 1847 when Liverpool had a population of 250,000, 5,845 people died of ‘Fever’ and 2,589 died of ‘Diarrhoea’ This was the highest mortality rate ever seen in Liverpool.
Pages in category "History of Liverpool" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... PS Orion (1847) R. Richmond Chapel, Lancashire Act 1772;