Issue 97 – July 2015
10 pages inside
SOUTH LIVERPOOL’S BIGGEST ADVERTISING PAPER
IT’S OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY! Well, as the old saying goes: “doesn’t time fly”! It really does seem incredible to think that our first edition was published nine years ago this month. What started off as a “bright idea” when Dawn and I were working together at the Liverpool Echo came to fruition in July 2006 and we started by distributing 8,000 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 41,000. If someone had told us that nine 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 advertising 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 nine 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 over the past nine years. So in thanking all our readers and advertisers we’d again like to pass on our sincere thanks to: All our regular contributors who have helped us so much over the years with their great articles: 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!); Anton Valdemart for his Strange Tales; Jim
Stanway (South Liverpool FC); Peter Harrison (Alder FC); Mick Titherington (Stoneycroft FC); Paul Coshott (Fighting Fit); Bill Chambers (Liverpool Sefton Hockey Club); Kevin Edgar (AFC Cronus); Ian Wignell (Fulwood Arms FC); Jade Ainsworth (Life ‘n’ Style); Nic Perrins (Mersey Gig Guide); all the other readers who kindly send in articles 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. Our designers and printers. Tony and Alan and the team; our distributors. Joe and Irene; for your continued assistance and moral support and for coming up with the great name THE LINK. So here’s to the next nine years! Best wishes and many thanks to you all, Moira, Dawn and Carol
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Hawks and horses ...
By Stephen Guy
The first Royal Mews was opened at London’s Charing Cross in 1377, the year Edward III died after reigning 50 years. The era had seen great changes – trials were heard in English rather than French, the first magistrates were appointed and Parliament was divided into two houses. Mews originally housed birds used in the sport of falconry. Mews is another word for moulting, the periodic shedding of feathers. The name mews stuck when the building became Henry VIII’s stables in 1537. The King’s Mews, as it was called, stood on the site of Trafalgar Square. After being demolished in the early 19th century, a new Royal Mews was built in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. It is now open to the public. Mews became the term for stables and service streets housing horses, carriages and staff in towns and cities. They became necessary because wealthy people often lived in large terraced houses in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some mews were built around courtyards. This arrangement differed from most of Europe. Continued on page 8
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