Liverpool Ghost Signs

Liverpool Ghost Signs
Author: Caroline Bunford
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Painted signs and signboards
ISBN: 9780752465708

Take a photographic journey into Liverpool’s often overlooked local, craft, and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles handpainted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear faded on the brickwork of buildings. It is a snapshot of a time that is almost forgotten but which lives on through the sometimes haunting presence of ghost signs on Liverpool’s city streets. More than 100 signs, gloriously illustrated here in full color, are explored through chapters focused on the types of products advertised, such as food and drink; alcohol and tobacco; shoes and clothing; etc. Liverpool Ghost Signs is a must for all true local historians.

Secret Liverpool

Secret Liverpool
Author: Mark and Michelle Rosney
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-08-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445640864

Explore Liverpool’s secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Echoes of the Merseyside Blitz

Echoes of the Merseyside Blitz
Author: Neil Holmes
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526702606

Merseyside has a long and varied history, one which its sons and daughters are justifiably proud. It has come through many struggles, but perhaps its darkest hour was the air raids that were launched against it in 1940 and 1941. Around 4,000 people lost their lives and many prominent buildings and houses were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. All of this occurred in the space of just 18 months, a period which changed the face of the region irrevocably. Using a variety of new sources Echoes of the Merseyside Blitz draws together a timeline of the blitz for the whole region, showing at a glance what was happening on any given night during that period. Taking carefully selected photographs, Neil Holmes tells the story of Merseysides blitz through a series of ghost photographs, where historic wartime images are blended with their modern counterpart to create a fascinating window in to Merseysides past.

Advertising and Public Memory

Advertising and Public Memory
Author: Stefan Schutt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1317389131

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them, painted them, viewed them and view them today. Topics covered include cultural memory, urban change, modernity and belonging, local history and place-making, the crowd-sourced use of online mobile and social media to document and share digital artefacts, ‘retro’ design and the resurgence in interest in the handmade. The book is international and interdisciplinary, combining academic analysis and critical input from practitioners and researchers in areas such as cultural studies, destination marketing, heritage advertising, design, social history and commercial archaeology.

Ghost Signs

Ghost Signs
Author: Sam Roberts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-10-31
Genre: Advertising, Outdoor
ISBN: 9780995488694

Ghost on the Wall

Ghost on the Wall
Author: Derek Dohren
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2011-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1780570678

Ghost on the Wall is the official biography of one of Liverpool Football Club's greatest ever servants: Roy Evans. Born in Bootle in 1948, Evans attracted the attention of many First Division club managers while playing for England's schoolboys team in the early 1960s. In 1964, legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly stepped in to sign him. But while the '60s were an exciting time to play for Liverpool, they were also very challenging, and Evans found it hard to break into the first team on a regular basis. Following Shankly's shock resignation in 1974, Evans was given the opportunity to become a member of the backroom staff. It was here that he really made his mark, taking the reserve team to seven Central League titles in nine years and coming of age as a coach and trainer, emerging as an invaluable member of the legendary 'Boot Room'. The decline in the club's fortunes during the 1980s meant that the resignation of manager Graeme Souness in 1994 left the incoming manager facing an exciting challenge - to return the club to its glory days. Roy Evans, 'the last of the Shankly lads', was handed his date with destiny. While the Reds did not win another League Championship under Evans' charge, neither did they finish any lower than fourth, and Evans' commitment to developing future Liverpool stars such as Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Michael Owen ensured that he would not become another 'ghost on the wall' at Anfield. In this engrossing account, Evans reveals the inside story of life as a member of Liverpool's famous Boot Room. He recollects his close working relationships with Reds legends from Shankly to Houllier and provides a vivid portrait of operations at the celebrated club over four action-packed decades. Finally, he discusses the challenges he faces in his new role as assistant manager of the Welsh national side and considers the way forward for Liverpool after their Champions League victory under Rafael Benítez in 2005.

Haunted Liverpool 22

Haunted Liverpool 22
Author: Tom Slemen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781489568571

Once again, Tom Slemen, one of England's great chroniclers of ghostly-goings on, provides us with another fascinating, spellbinding volume of Haunted Liverpool, a phenomenal series of books that have now even gathered a massive following outside of the UK. In this chilling book you will read of the Mouth of Truth – a grisly occult lie-detector that was created by the Seer of Scotland Road, and you will also learn about the dangers of visiting a church or graveyard on St Mark's Eve… Also, read about the Headless Airman of Burton Wood and other ghastly tales of decapitation, and also: be thrilled by the Liverpool sceptic who spent a night alone with a corpse in a church as part of a bet – with terrifying results – plus, who, or what is behind the spate of night-time visits by a figure resembling Jesus who has been seen across Merseyside? Among the forty-four tales you will also read of the strange history of Edge Lane Hall and the mystifying tunnels that run under Wavertree Park, as well as the creepy oversized crystal ball known as the Delhi Eye which was put in the window of a Liverpool shop with disastrous results…plus, the policemen who were teleported across Liverpool by an unknown force, and the well-documented account of a real-life zombie which was once at large in Aigburth's Fulwood Park, plus many more tales of the supernatural taken from every corner of Liverpool by the North West's premier expert on all things paranormal – Tom Slemen!