(3/3) Neighbouring local authorities engaged in sort of ping-pong game, batting the problem of unwelcome caravans back and forth across each other’s administrative boundaries.

(2/3) After eviction from one patch of waste land they would move to another, where the process to evict them would begin again. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/11/24/h...

6/6 Lord Salisbury stepped down as chancellor a few months later and after 46 years the university awarded an honorary degree to Pete Cresswell, the expelled student.

5/6 The sit-in lasted 10 days and got national press coverage – most of it hostile. Nine students were eventually suspended and one was expelled.

4/6 They were also seeking details of the university's investments and “satisfactory answers” to questions about chemical and biological warfare research.

3/6 Their main demand was for the resignation of the university’s Chancellor, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was an outspoken supporter of the minority white regime in Rhodesia.

2/6 The students had a series of demands which, taken together, amounted to an accusation that the university was trying to ignore the social and political consequences of its policy decisions.

4/4 The conspiracy trial cost the government about £250,000 and a Special Branch team spent almost a year gathering what evidence they could. The court sat for 51 days but in the end it took the jury only 90 minutes to deliver “Not Guilty” verdicts on all the accused.

3/4 They had been handing out leaflets headed "Some information for discontented soldiers" which described various ways that soldiers who didn't want to serve in Northern Ireland could leave the Army.

2/4 Two Liverpool men were among 14 people arrested and charged with conspiring to "seduce" troops from their allegiance to the Queen.

6/6 Areas scheduled for demolition became twilight zones while others — already cleared — remained empty in the absence of funds for new construction. This prompted acerbic jokes that the council was taking up the task that Hitler’s Luftwaffe had left unfinished.

5/6 Fortunately for Liverpool, the economic downturn in the 1970s made Shankland’s plans unaffordable and they were abandoned bit by bit. That led to another problem, though, because the preparations had blighted much of the city.

4/6 Some walkways were built but they proved unpopular and were removed a few years later. One had become known as “Muggers’ Alley”.

3/6 Vast areas were designated for car parks and pedestrians would be consigned to “walkways in the sky” (foot bridges) with under-floor heating to prevent people from slipping on ice in the winter.

2/6 Shankland's vision for Liverpool was to tear down much of the centre and replace it with “robust and manly” new buildings and a motorway on stilts “curving sensuously” around them.

3/3 The work could be exhausting but it was relatively well paid and conditions were good. The paternalistic Moores family who owned Littlewoods wanted their staff to be happy and provided entertainment in the lunch breaks. There was plenty of after-work social activity too, plus an annual outingl.

2/3 Littlewoods provided jobs for thousands of Liverpool women and in an article for People's History several of them describe what it was like to work there. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/13/l...