The TimesYou are in: Liverpool > History > Discover > The Times  Many of Liverpool’s landmark structures were a result of the Great Depression of the 1930s.  100 years ago Liverpool experienced an outbreak of sectarian violence with rioting on city streets.  A new photographic exhibition looks at the changing role of the football fan.  A special film screening shows life in Runcorn and Widnes over the past 90 years.  Memories of the last mainline steam train service at its final stop in Liverpool in August 1968.  BBC Archive TV and radio programmes with Liverpool musicians are released online.  Children play on bomb sites and the elderly reminisce. Watch Liverpool on film 50 years ago.  How Liverpool launched the age of the train.  Contribute your recollections of the two previous visits of the Tall Ships to the Mersey.  It's 20 years since 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final.  Listen to coverage of the evacuation of Aintree racecourse at the 1997 Grand National.  The murder, by two children, of Bootle toddler James Bulger in 1993 left the country in shock.  In May 1982 more than a million people lined the streets of Liverpool to welcome Pope John Paul II.  The 1985 European Cup final ended in disaster when Liverpool and Juventus fans clashed.  In 1981 riots in Toxteth put Liverpool on the national front page. You are in: Liverpool > History > Discover > The Times |
