Product Details for : Bernard Fallon's Liverpool
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localbk-00032
Product Features:
- Fascinating photographs from yesteryear
- Learn more about Liverpool's history and heritage
- Photographer: Bernard Fallon
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Bernard Fallon's Liverpool is a landscape of once-familiar faces and streets, a city that no longer exists but in those frozen moments of time. His Liverpool captures days out at the Grand National, enjoying the sun on Crosby beach and kids playing in the back alleys. He also documents the last of the 'Shawlies' or 'Mary Ellens', the fading evidence of the city's Irish roots, and the sometimes illiterate graffiti of sectarian strife bubbling just below the surface. Here too are those moments of community life in the 'Corpy' washhouse, Paddy's Market and the last of the once numerous pubs of Scottie Road. The flip side is here too, the wholesale destruction of that lively community as streets and houses were bulldozed to make way for the new Kingsway Tunnel and the decline of traditional occupations including the chimney sweep and docker.
About half the photographs in this book were taken around Scotland Road in 1969 and 1970. By 1973 Fallon had left Liverpool and his rolls of film went with him to London and then California, where he now lives. The images he had so painstakingly taken remained etched in his memory and the idea of showing them in Liverpool took shape.
So, after more than thirty years, his superb record of a city in transition has been made public ... and about time too!
