Scouse Press Packets
The Liverpool Packets
Discover our Liverpool Packets—a series of 10 unique and fascinating collections that celebrate the rich history, culture, and character of Liverpool and Merseyside. Each packet is a treasure trove of memories, perfect for history enthusiasts, locals, and visitors alike.
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Explore the full range below and find the perfect addition to your collection or a thoughtful gift for someone who loves Liverpool!
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Packet no.1: Street Songs and Broadside Ballads
This Packet contains blood-curdling facsimile reprints describing murders, scandals, romances and disasters of local interest, including in 1636, the beaching of a whale on the Wirral. Not for the faint-hearted!
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Packet no.2: Liverpool
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Shows the growth of the city from 1331 to 1820 in approximately 21 maps, views and plans and includes descriptive notes.
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Packet no.2+2: Liverpool
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Second of two packets showing the growth of the city in maps and views from the coming of the railway to 1975. Suitable for framing and studying with descriptive notes.
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Packet no.3: Liverpool Transport
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A collection of maps and illustrations of Liverpool buses, taxis, trams, railway, boats and ferries. See the photograph of the last horse-drawn tram, get your exact fare ready for your bus journey during the war, feel the excitement of going on the Overhead railway… all this and much more for £4.50
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Packet No.4: Liverpool-Manchester Railway
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This Packet contains an historical collection of prints, views, drawings and satirical cartoons charting the building of the iconic railway line. Also, it has photographs of the neglected state of some of the original buildings, now lost to the bulldozer and developer; but grab your ticket and hold on to your hat as you go for a ride in history. The inaugural journey took one and a quarter hours for 31 miles of railroad…
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Packet no.5: Slavers & Privateers
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This packet contains leaflets, pamphlets and drawings of the time illustrating mans’ inhumanity to man…..and how the trade was thought perfectly respectable. Now we can look back on the highly profitable triangular trade and wonder at the cruelty inflicted on our fellow beings for profit. The slaves were thought of as commodities and dehumanised as thus. The abolitionists were brave indeed to stand up to commerce.
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Packet no.7: Liverpool Shipping
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Liverpool Shipping by former keeper of Shipping at Liverpool Maritime Museum, Mike Stammers. Learn how Liverpool grew from a very small town of 138 house holders in 1565 but with a magnificent harbour, to the the great port it is today, helped by the slave trade. See the maps of trade routes, views of the docks, rigging plans, even a ticket for the Titanic!
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Packet no.10: Prehistoric and Roman Merseyside
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Prehistoric and Roman Merseyside by John Webb. Finds and items from Neolithic times to Roman Merseyside 410 AD
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Packet no.14: John Berbiers’ Liverpool
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John Berbiers’ Liverpool. Approximately 30 views of Liverpool and Merseyside drawn by architect and city planner John Berbiers in the 1950s,60s and 70s.
Size approx 26 x 35 cms
250 Grams
£10
Packet no.15: Sing the Titanic!
£10
This Packet contains either a cassette or CD [state preference] of songs, [specially recorded] postcards, poetry, sheet music and a printed cotton handkerchief to commemorate this tragic maritime disaster. Although the tragedy was universally mourned, it was also seen as a chance for retail therapy, sentimental song sheets and wistful poetry- who needs Facebook?
Size approx 26 x 35 cms
250 Grams