Liverpool
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Tony Lane. Liverpool
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE E-BOOK EDITION
INTRODUCTION
1 CITY OF THE SEA
2 THE OLD FAMILIES
3 NATURAL DEMOCRATS
4 BOSS POLITICS
5 ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Chapter 1: City of the Sea
Chapter 2: The Old Families
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Cheek-by-jowl with Liverpool’s heroic feats of dock engineering, world-scale organisations of commerce and finance, and the sights and sounds of ships and cargoes there were less reputable institutions. As much a part of Liverpool as the respectability of business and other productive employments was the sailors’ Liverpool, discreetly evoked here by a young ship’s doctor in 1911:
The sailor is the real king of Liverpool. Everybody in Liverpool loves the sailor, and is only too anxious to show him how to have a good time and spend his money while he is ashore; and it is he is the great man there till he has spent it.33
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