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Liverpool Photography

• Liverpool Days - Gerard Fleming's photos of Liverpool, with a large collection of Beatles related pics.
• Liverpool Street Gallery - A new project to photograph every street in Liverpool, over 4,000 photos online.
• Liverpoolpictorial - Dave Wood's archive of photographs.
• Inacityliving - Ged Fagan's collection of over 3,000 photographs.
• Liverpool Views

Local History Websites

• Old Liverpool - Liverpool snippets from old newspapers, by Caryl Williams
• Old Merseytimes - Liverpool and Merseyside from old newspapers, by Jane Campbell
• St. James' Cemetery - excellent website about the cemetery, its history and its long term residents.
• Friends of Liverpool Monuments - set up by local campaigners to record and monitor new and existing public monuments.
• Mike Royden's - local history pages.

Genealogy

• Liverpool & S.W. Lancs. - Family History Society - for those into Genealogy.
• Forum - run by the above society - if you need help tracing your ancestors, this is the place to visit.
• Merseyside Genealogy and History Forum

Maps

• Charles Close Society - organisation for those interested in maps, plans and related material of the UK Ordnance Survey.
• Alan Godfrey Maps - produces high quality, detailed maps taken from the old Ordnance Survey maps. These are ideal for local historians, genealogists, or anyone interested in the town they live in or have visited.
• Mapseeker - Commercial company selling a range of reproduction historical maps.

Local Societies

• Liverpool History Society - promoting the appreciation and study of the history of the city and its immediate environs.
• Liverpool Heritage Forum - coordinating and publicising the activities of other local history and cultural societies.
• Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - promoting the study of the history of the Palatine counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.

Victoria County History

• VCH - vol 2 - a part volume detailing religious houses of the county, including the major Cistercian house of Furness, and the early history of the parish church (later cathedral) of Manchester.
• VCH - vol 3, Merseyside - local history of Merseyside, from Sefton in the north to Speke in the south, and including Warrington, Widnes and Ormskirk.
• VCH - vol 4, Liverpool - detailed local history of the city of Liverpool, Wigan and most of Greater Manchester.
• VCH - vol 5 - Continues the account of Salford hundred begun in volume 4. It includes accounts of the parishes of Bury, Bolton-le-Moors, Prestwich-with-Oldham and Rochdale.
• VCH - vol 6 - Describes the history of the hundred of Leyland, including the parishes of Chorley and Standish. It also covers part of the hundred of Blackburn, including the parish of Blackburn itself.
• VCH - vol 7 - This volume is mostly taken up with the history of Amounderness hundred, lying north of the Ribble and south of Lonsdale. It covers the coastal town of Lytham, as well as giving an account of major towns including Preston and Garstang. It also concludes the account of Blackburn hundred, mostly covered in volume 6, including the parishes of Ribchester and Chipping.
• VCH - vol 8 - Covers Lonsdale hundred, the northernmost part of the historic county. To the north it includes the parishes of Cartmel, Hawkshead and Ulverston (now in Cumbria). Further south it covers the parish and city of Lancaster, and the rest of the county as far south as Cockerham, where the hundred bordered that of Amounderness. (vol 7.)

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