Scotland Road Tribe Now Gone Forever ; a New Book by Ken Rogers Recalls the 1960s Slum Clearance Programme That Destroyed Liverpool's Old Inner City Streets
Liverpool Echo › July 19, 2010
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IT is 50 years since the face of Liverpool changed forever. In 1960, as The Beatles prepared us for a musical revolution that would rock the world, another event was unfolding in the heart of the city that would lead to an exodus of biblical proportions.
Over 100,000 people began to leave the spiritual homes of their forefathers, bulldozed into the suburbs in the name of progress and slum clearance.See the full content of this document
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Scotland Road Tribe Now Gone Forever ; a New Book by Ken Rogers Recalls the 1960s Slum Clearance Programme That Destroyed Liverpool's Old Inner City Streets
The city's skyline across its most visible and historic inner city districts - notably Everton and Scotland Road - would never be the same again.
But this wasn't just about the loss of hundreds of famous streets as the Swinging Sixties dawned. It was about the separating of f...See the full content of this document
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