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Issue 73 West Derby & Croxteth Park July 2012
The monthly independent advertiser 15,000 copies 12,500 into Homes 2,500 into Businesses
Dawn Williams
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IT’S OUR 6th BIRTHDAY!!
As the old saying goes: “time flies”! However, it does seem incredible to think that our first edition was published six years ago this month. What started off as a “bright idea” when we were working together at the Liverpool Echo came to fruition in July 2006 and we started off by distributing 8000 copies of the West Derby Link throughout West Derby & Croxteth Park. We’ve since gone from strength to strength and following the launch of the South Liverpool Link in August 2007, The Liverpool LINK now has a total monthly distribution of 35,000. If someone had told us that six years ago we’d have said it was way beyond our wildest dreams and expectations! As it is, we have firmly established ourselves as a favourite independent local publication. We remain a totally independent business and are the first to recognise that the success of The Link is entirely down to you - our readers and our advertisers. So we say a very big thank you to you all for your constant support and loyalty over the last six years and for the trust and confidence you have placed in us. We also thank you, our readers, for the way in which you have supported our advertisers. The old adage that if you stand still in business then you end up going backwards is
especially true these days and as many of you are aware, we have made some exciting changes to the LINK. In the last 12 months we have become tabloid-size and have also increased our overall distribution in West Derby and South Liverpool by 6,000 (to 35,000 in total). We are absolutely delighted by the great response we have had and how you have all accepted the new look LINK so positively - it was a huge decision for us so it’s really great to get such wonderful comments. So in thanking all our readers and advertis-
ers we’d again like to pass on our sincere thanks to: • All our regular contributors: Stephen Guy (whose wonderful local history articles continue to inform and entertain - we don’t know how he keeps coming up with such great articles!), Jim Stanway (South Liverpool FC), Peter Harrison (Alder F.C.), the lads from Stoneycroft FC and of course Peter (Moira’s husband) who does all our competitions/quizzes and so on and who writes and checks many of our articles for us.
Moira Hesketh
• Vic and Joan; our typesetters and designers. • Tony and his team; our distributors • Joe and Irene; for your continued assistance and moral support and for coming up with the great name THE LINK. Here’s to the next six years!! Best wishes and many thanks to you all,
Moira & Dawn
KING OF THE PATHS by Stephen Guy, West Derby Society
The wealthy, influential Liverpool citizens met at a public
hall to discuss a subject they thought very strongly about. They included two prominent residents of West Derby who were well-known figures in the business community. Oil merchant and Liberal politician Henry Meade-King lived at Broomfield, Sandfield Park, while German financier Gustavus Schwabe had recently built Broughton Hall. The gentlemen gathered to discuss
not some pressing commercial crisis or anything to do with their everyday working lives. They wanted to prevent the destruction of footpaths giving access to Liverpool’s green spaces. As the Liverpool Mercury reported on 17 October 1863, the meeting unanimously set up the Liverpool Footpath Association to preserve byways. continued on page three
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