Year |
Event |
1901 |
Liverpool's population is over 700,000 |
1902 |
The city buys Calderstones Park from the McIver family of the Cunard Line |
1903 |
The Mersey Railway is converted from steam to electric operation [B07] |
1904 |
The foundation stone for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral is laid |
1909 |
Alois (half brother of Adolf) Hitler moves to 103 Stanhope Street, Toxteth after marrying in Dublin |
1910 |
Crippen is arrested for murder on a Canadian ship sailing from Liverpool using Marconi's new "wireless technology" [B22] |
1911 |
The Royal Liver Building is completed |
1914 |
Woolton Woods, once owned by Holbrook Gaskell is opened to the public |
1915 |
The Lusitania is sunk off the coast of Ireland on it's way from New York to Liverpool |
1916 |
The Cunard Building is completed |
1918 |
The city council buys Princes Park which was previously privately owned by Richard Vaughan Yates |
1925 |
James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, marries Aileen Stewart-Brown of Liverpool |
1932 |
India Building completed in Water Street for the Blue Funnel Line owned by Holt |
1933 |
The terminal of Speke Airport is opened [B22] |
1934 |
The Queensway Mersey (Road) Tunnel is opened by King George V |
1935 |
James Chadwick takes chair of Physics at University of Liverpool and gets Noble Prize for discovery of the neutron in 1932 |
1936 |
Frank Hornby, inventor of Meccano, dies |
1938 |
Hornby Dublo model trains start production in Liverpool |
1939 |
First of a large British order for new bomber aircraft, the Lockheed Hudson arrives in Liverpool |
1940 |
John Winston Lennon is born |
1945 |
John Lennon goes to live with his Aunt Mimi at 251 Menlove Avenue |
1953 |
Lita Roza becomes the first Liverpool artist to reach No 1 in the recently started "UK hit parade" |
1956 |
The Liverpool Overhead Railway closes |
1957 |
John Lennon who had previously started a beat group is introduced to Paul McCartney at Woolton |
1961 |
Brian Epstein of NEMS Record Store becomes the new manager of The Beatles |
1966 |
The Cavern Club goes bankrupt |
1974 |
Eastern parts of greater Liverpool are annexed to Manchester to create a Greater Manchester County as a result of the 1972 Local Government Act |
1978 |
Standard-Triumph Car Factory at Speke closes |
1987 |
William Patrick Hitler, the Liverpool born nephew of Adolf dies |