The Liverpool Cow Keepers 27th April

David Joy gave us a personal view of a side of life which has now disappeared. He told us about the dairy business in Liverpool, that started in the days before refrigeration, when families kept small herds of cows within the city to provide fresh milk to the local growing population. These family businesses not only looked after the cows but also run the local milk rounds up until the middle of the last century when the large national dairy companies took over. David was a member of one of those family dairies and, through his talks and books, he is keen to keep that history alive. He has a website http://www.davejoy-author.com/ that shows his passion and interest for this past way of life.

The Mersey Gateway project 23rd March

This talk was more about history in the making, rather than past history, when Barrie Davidson, a volunteer with the Mersey Gateway Project told us about the new Mersey bridge. Construction on this bridge, linking Widnes and Runcorn, started in 2014 with completion planned for this autumn. It is a major project with the challenges both of building the bridge structure and of constructing and modifying all the approach roads. More details can be found on http://www.merseygateway.co.uk/