Dave Joy’s Book

Tonight, saw Ann & I heading into Liverpool for our evening meal, and in time for a talk at Liverpool Central Library… hosted by the Liverpool Historical Society… the talk was by the renowned Local Historian and descendant of one of our city’s resident Dairymen… Dave Joy.

 

Busses stopping at Queens Square

After coming home from work, we took a #10a bus down to Lime Street in the city centre, opposite St. Georges Hall, to go into the refurbished Great Northern Hotel, next to Lime Street Station… Although the old Hotel, has now been converted into student accommodation,  there are business’s in other parts of the building… one of those business’s is a ‘Weatherspoons’ which of course offers great inexpensive meals along with a super range of bespoke beers etc.

After our meal… we made our way over to the Central Library, and up in the lift to the 4th floor and the meeting/lecture rooms…

 

Lecture room filling up… at the start of the talk, it was standing room only…lol

A great talk it was… Dave gave us all a real, history of his family talk, but this went hand in hand, with the history of Cow-Keeping within the city as a whole… During the 100+ years that herds of cows were housed in the city, usually behind end terraces… records show that there were 700 of these local dairies… Some time ago, I told the story of a grave in Everton Cemetery, which went into this topic in more depth… you can see it by clicking here… Thomas Mansergh – Liverpool Cowkeeper.

 

Liverpool Central Library

As I was taking these night shots of the Library, a gut coming out… approached me to say, that if he was in my shot, I would need his permission…

Of course… I told him, this was in fact a modern day ‘Myth‘… the law is very clear on this point. An individual cannot expect privacy in a public place. And therefore I politely put him right, that as I was in a public place, I did not need anyone’s permission. As photographers, we must all try and dispel these modern day myths…