Castle Street and Dale Street

Lark Lane reel and article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

West Derby Village: Liverpool Before Liverpool Full article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Palaces of Light, now Dark Liverpool was once a city that went to the pictures like it went to the docks, in vast numbers, with ritual, noise, and appetite. From the 1910s through to the 1960s, cinemas rose across the city. Full article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

St John's Market, Liverpool: Beauty to Brutalism Read all about it: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

👉 Get the book here: amzn.to/44y6ooy Available as audio book, Kindle and print versions.

The Fort Beneath the Dunes: Fort Crosby Liverpool’s Forgotten Front Line. Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Everton FC: origins to the The Old Lady Full article here: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Come and have a look at what you would have won. Three sites in the city and how they might look had they survive bombs and culls; Lime Street from St George's Plateau, St John's Market and Central Station.

Lime Street c1890 (pre Vines/Big House) and recently.

Step off the grand theatre of St George's Hall, cross the plateau, and you are standing in a part of the city where Liverpool’s civic self confidence once posed for photographs. It was called Commutation Row. Read the rest of this article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Eric's Liverpool. Mark Jordan sent me a load of his photos from the post punk era, so I made this reel. www.instagram.com/reel/DUIa6C9... @wildtwin.bsky.social

James Street Station. Full article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Mathew Street: From warehouses to jazz, merseybeat to post-punk Full article: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

St John's Beacon aka The Radio City Tower shoots off into outer space. We always suspected it.

Read all about the Liverpool Parish Union Workhouse at Brownlow Hill: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel... @mikeroyden.bsky.social gets a mention

South Road in Waterloo. This reel explores the long drag in Waterloo, a hub for the shore, from the late Victorian period to present day. youtu.be/B8AAEPMborM?...

Explore the Bold Street time slip in the Substack below: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

Liverpool, May 1941. From St Lukes and Lewis's to the Customs House and my Dad, this is the tumultuous moment that changed the city forever. To read the full blog: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

GOREE PIAZZAS From the infamous and awful origins of the name to their looming presence next to the waterfront spanning three centuries, discover this Liverpool ghost here: substack.com/@jpmaxwell/n... #vintagepanoramas #HiddenLiverpool #EmpireAndMemory #MaritimeLiverpool #WritingPlace

Liverpool before the Luftwaffe, before the barmy city planners post war, before the Beatles, before me and before most of you. #LiverpoolHistory #LiverpoolbyAir #VintagePanoramas

From Liverpool to New York in 1847. For the full article on how immigration reached New York before Ellis Island, see: tinyurl.com/4d8a5pz7

With nothing but the clothes on my back, I crossed from Liverpool in Black '47. Check out the full post exploring immigration into New York before Castle Garden and Ellis Island: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

The city's greatest 'What If' story is the pre-war design for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. This reel explores the interior and exterior. Read all about how this nearly came to pass, with a further concept to transform the entire city: substack.com/@jpmaxwell/n...

Gin Palaces and Picture Palaces: Liverpool’s The Futurist Cinema and Lime Street Read the full article here: open.substack.com/pub/jpmaxwel...

The Aquitania. Read full blog here: The Aquitania. Read full blog here: substack.com/profile/5873... #cunard #cunardhistory #oceanliners

So David Fitzgerald wrote this about me, which sounds a bit passive aggressive but isn't ;) substack.com/@davidfitzge...

St Nicholas Church: Liverpool’s Sailors’ Church and the History Beneath Its Stones

Liverpool Central Station Upper Level. Opened 1874, demolished a century later to make way for the modern Merseyrail Underground system.

Exchange Station in Liverpool began life as Liverpool Exchange railway station, opening on 13 May 1850 on Tithebarn Street to serve the city’s booming rail traffic in the Victorian era. Closed in 1977, demolished except for the façade. @wildtwin.bsky.social

MERRY CHRISTMAS from The Ghost of Liverpool. Here are some images from Christmas past. My little card to everyone. Places listed in the alt text :)

Vauxhall

In 1863, something happened in Liverpool that changed the world. Get JP Maxwell's Civil War thriller THE AMERICANS OF ABERCROMBY SQUARE here: amzn.to/44y6ooy Available as audio book, Kindle and print versions.

Santa's Grotto at Blacklers.

@liverpooloverhead @dockersumbrella @thestrand c1900

Lime Street, early 1950s. Based upon an original image from Edward Chambre Hardman

Bold Street 1841.

Party like it's on sale for £8.90. Some Amazon shenanigans, but go get it from amzn.to/4hWbsti The Americans of Abercromby Square - the trail of the Lincoln Assassination leads all the way back to Liverpool.

The U.S. Consulate on Paradise Street, Liverpool.

Forthcoming book event with the best coffee on Smithdown too! www.eventbrite.com/e/three-live...

The Americans of Abercromby Square #anime ep1: youtu.be/dBud3oOJ0Gw?...

Chapter 28 – THE PATH TO SALVATION New York City, December 24th, 1865 "'From the moment we first lost sight of the American shore, till we landed at Liverpool, our gallant steamship was the theatre of an almost constant discussion of the subject of slavery..."

Chapter 27 – SURRENDER AT THE TOWN HALL Liverpool, November 6th, 1865 "‘The carriage waits for them by the dock for the short journey up Water Street, to complete the formalities in what he now knows is the very last act of the war. ‘This damned world is going to pot, Irvine.’"

❄️ Liverpool, Nov 1865. Rain, sleet, hail — the Mersey ready to freeze. George’s Dock is as far from Dixie as it gets… 🌊 👉 amzn.to/44y6ooy #HistoricalFiction #Liverpool #CivilWar

⏳ “They must both make the most of their borrowed time.” Liverpool, 1865: Harriet & Dudley walk beneath shadows of April, armed with a telegram from Adams Sr. 👉 amzn.to/44y6ooy #HistoricalFiction #BookTok

Chapter 24 – THE HISTORY OF STUPID IDEAS Liverpool, October 24th 1865 "Grace’s carriage trundles down Water Street towards George’s Landing Stage on this murky, still morning. Tall masts and smoke stacks peek through the gloop. Here they are, again." 👉 Get the book here: amzn.to/44y6ooy

Chapter Twenty Three - BUSTING UP THE HUSTINGS "I would tell you, as erstwhile, de facto Governor of New Orleans and its New French environs, that your commander-in-chief is spouting bubbles of drivel again." 👉 Get the book here: amzn.to/44y6ooy

Chapter Twenty Two - ALL DOWN TO THE CROWN AGAIN Liverpool, October 19th, 1865 "They enter through the double doors. Diarmuid is on the other side of the bar, serving Aston a pint of fresh milk. They’ve a cow out back, and it is a nice sideline from the booze."

Chapter Twenty One - THE EUSTON EXPRESS "American intelligence got them this information, but if the British are to find a smoking gun, the perfect rogue agent is Harriet Farrell: disaffected, unhinged and even a bit Irish, all of which has a convincing ring to it." 👉: amzn.to/44y6ooy

Chapter Twenty - The Dead Rabbits Liverpool, 17th October 1865 "Yet again, Harriet considers sapping the bitch right here and now to extract the information, then going in gung ho."