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Radio Merseyside,25 Nov 2025,8 mins

Liverpool’s Buried Time Machine

Hidden Merseyside

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Liverpool has always known how to leave a mark, and sometimes, those marks are buried. With expert insight from Liverpool tour guide and historian Peter Lang, we dive into the city’s most intriguing time capsules: Victorian messages, Scouse builder humour, letters to the year 2098, and even modern mementos from LFC. So let’s explore what Liverpool’s past wanted the future to know and what these discoveries say about the city today.

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