| | The show outside St George's Hall in Liverpool. |
"When he arrived in Liverpool, around 1860, he approached the council who decided it would be quite a novel thing to have the Punch and Judy show in the city centre. "Eventually they decided to site it in a place called the Quadrant which was a piece of land between the railway station and the market place. The workmen made a circular stone stage on which to put the puppet show.
"Of course it was quite an enviable site because it was a focal point. | | Punch & Judy against the backdrop of the Northwestern hotel. |
"You would get the people coming out of the market place, clashing with the people coming out of the railway station.  | | Enthralled fans of Mr Punch. |
"It stood there from the 19th century up until 1957 when they decided to make a huge traffic roundabout which went around St George’s Hall, the show was literally in the way. "There was a big hoohaa about retaining it, but of course the authorities won in the end and suggested an alternative site, which was St George’s Plateau. It wasn’t a very good site because of course people had to climb steps to see it. But it was retained there until about three years later when they started to do the new loop line in Liverpool that was literally in the way. "The show was then sited in Williamson Square and eventually we had a request to go to the Museum of Liverpool Life, which is where it is today."
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