Merseyside's Own

Merseyside has been the birthplace or home to literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women. In this book Christine Dawe features a great many of them—from all eras and all walks of life. Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as Kim Cattrall, Daniel Craig, Wayne Rooney, and Patricia Routledge, rub shoulders with the historical great and good, including Sir Thomas Beecham, George Stevenson, and Sir Alfred Holt—the founder of the famous Cunard shipping line. This book contains more than 100 mini