Popular local historian and broadcaster Ken Pye has collected a further
fifty tales to take you on another entertaining journey across the
centuries, and around Liverpool and the towns and villages of
Merseyside. His stories are a celebration of just how remarkable and
endlessly interesting this community is.
The weird and wonderful tales in this book are more intriguing than
ever, and include Spiders and Other Giants; 'Roast Beef' - The Crosby
Hermit; The Horrors of Crank Caverns; The Iron Men of Crosby; The
Monster and the Ghost Ship; The Countess and the Murderous Footman;
Cavern Club - Where Merseybeat was Born; The Black Rock Mermaid of old
Wallasey; The Thugs of Willalloo; Bidston Hill and The Holy Grail; The
Pyramid Tomb of Rodney Street; Everton Beacon Fires and Flags; The Iron
Duke's Column; Glastonbury Thorn of Allerton; Run Over by The Rocket;
True Inventor of Radio; and the Nude Bathers of the Pier Head.