If your husband is driving to places in England for the week,
it's advisable to hop in the car and go with him!
Liverpool
Having never been this far north, I was surprised to find the sky looking like this at 10:15 p.m...
...and like this when I woke up at 4:30 a.m. because we'd left our curtains open.
Sooooo....what to do in Liverpool.....
Cross the Mercy River by ferry and do Family History on the Wirral Peninsula, of course.
After 2 days, several cemeteries, Wirral Archives, churches, walking, etc.,
I found no new info...
all I have is a little better feel for where Harry Hughlings' daughter Ann and her family lived.
SO, time to focus on Liverpool!
And what's Liverpool famous for???
The tour was quite pricey for what you got.
This part was much cooler....
The Cavern....where the Beatles were discovered!
What do you do there? Walk down 2 stories, enjoy a drink (don't worry, it was juice for us),
listen to a performer doing a nice job singing Beatles songs,
watch the mostly overweight, balding, graying, aging clientele re-live a portion of their youth (swaying, dancing, singing),
and wonder how people could stand being stuffed in this small place back then---with cigarette smoke (banned now), alcohol, dancing/swooning/sweaty bodies,
walls dripping because of lack of ventilation....
we were happy to be there but happy to leave before it got REALLY crowded!
I also went to the Maritime museum....
which also houses the....
Posted specifically for our granddaughter Macee...
you MUST ask Brooke if you don't understand this reference...HYSTERICAL!
This is all located at the beautiful Albert Dock on the Mercey River.
Must do one church in Liverpool....The Anglican Cathedral, took 70 years to build, was finished in 1974, is 4th largest cathedral in the world.
View from the top....our hotel was by the space needle thing.
Manchester
Manchester was a cleaner city than Liverpool. Quite liked it.
I enjoyed the John Rylands Library the most. Beautiful and full of really cool old, old books.
This is a copy of a papyrus fragment from the Gospel of John. It was in book form, not a scroll, because it was written on both sides. This shows both sides.... Yup, saw the actual fragment, and it's translation is nearly the same as the King James Bible...cool.
Halifax
This was a nice day...no business meetings, just taking me to do Family History.
First plan: Find 50 Hopwood Lane,
where Harry Hughlings (brother to Ann) and his family lived...
2nd plan: Find Holy Trinity Church,
where Ann Hughlings and Solomon Pitchforth were married.
And other relatives.
And Samuel Pitchforth (my g-g-grandfather) was christened.
And all of Harry Hughlings children.
And where Ann's mother is buried.
And several of Ann and Solomon's children.
And Ann's brother Harry and wife Mary.
And several of their children.
It took asking many, many different people, but we finally found it!
It is no longer used as a church. The cemetery is gone, probably just paved over. Underneath the bin are headstones in the blacktop. Against a wall by the car park are headstones precariously placed. At the side, headstones propped against the building. At the back of the church, one nice section where a few headstones have been placed.
May have shed a few tears.
So much of our family history happened here and is no longer findable.
I tried contacting the vicar (this congregation merged with his) but no response.
Kind of heartbroken.
At least they left some of the stained glass windows and are fixing the spire....
Sigh.
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