History - Lost Tribe of Everton

Seeing things in stark black and white

By Ken Rogers (from the Lost Tribe of Everton series). How many of you had pictures taken in an old…
When we all had a nickname

By Ken Rogers There was a time when almost every kid had a nickname. How long will it be before…
Looking back with perspective

By Ken Rogers Those of us from Liverpool’s Victorian inner city areas all had back entries like this. As a…
When going to the barbers meant having a bowl on your head!

Liverpool Sunday Past, 5 August 2018 By Ken Rogers I’ve been going to the same barbers for 48 years…
When comics were king

By Ken Rogers I was an avid comic reader in the 1950s as were most kids. The choice was huge…
Tin-can communication device

By KEN ROGERS Is there anybody there? My grandchildren increasingly believe I am from another planet whenever I mention open…
The Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road: The Play – The Capstone Theatre

‘Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road –The Play’ – Capstone Theatre 4-7th November 2017. WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE…
The famous Everton Toffee Shop

By KEN ROGERS We all talk about the devastating clearances in the 1960s that changed the face of Everton forever,…
The Everton & Scottie Saturday morning cinema matinees

Flash, Ming the Merciless and Saturday morning cinema heaven (from Lost Tribe – The People’s Memories by Ken Rogers (Trinity…
The birth of big time football on Merseyside

From ‘Born Not Manufactured – Five Decades of Inside Stories from the Heart of Everton FC’ – by Ken Rogers….
Sticky Lice and other unusual treats

By KEN ROGERS In the same way we once had a pub on every corner, we also had a sweetshop,…
St George’s servants or slaves?

From ‘Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road’ by Ken Rogers (book published 2010) James Atherton built many of the…
Penny wise, pound foolish

By Ken Rogers As a kid I loved my old tin Post Office money box. You had to use a…
On yer bike . . . into a whole new world

By KEN ROGERS Seacome Street, like hundreds of others across Everton & Scottie Road, was a desperately sad sight post…
Milk Monitor – the most important role at school!

By Ken Rogers b- from a Liverpool Echo ‘Lost Tribes’ column A journalist friend of mine from the Midlands was…
Jane Austen’s Everton link

By Ken Rogers Millions of people all over the world have a passion for Jane Austen and classic books such…
Gregson’s Well to the giant Everton Water Tower

From Ken Rogers Liverpool Echo Sunday Past collection 2018: The summer of 2018 was the hottest on record and while…
Everton’s visionary children’s refuge

By Steven Horton A building in Islington Square, on the corner of Islington and Shaw Street, was once a safe…
Everton’s very own ‘Ratty’ and Wind in the Willows – jigger version!

By Ken Rogers It’s Lost Tribes story time and so, if you are sitting comfortably, I will begin. This is…
Everton’s famous and long lost theatres

From ‘Lost Tribe – The People’s Memories’ – by Ken Rogers (Trinity Mirror Media 2012): The entertainment palaces of yesteryear…
Everton & district famous sunames

Perhaps the most famous former Welsh Congregational Church in Everton, albeit one of many, was the building that would ultimately…
Education visionary Canon Thomas Major Lester

By Ken Rogers In tribute to Canon Thomas Major Lester There have been many famous community centres in Everton down…
School eating and boxing competitions in those days before political correctness

From Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road by Ken Rogers (book published 2010). I started at Major Lester County…
A Walk Into History

Stroll across our spectacular green space and feel supremely proud of historic Everton By KEN ROGERS – Author of the…
A shillin’ to feed the meter?

Memories come in many different forms. Yes, classic events stick in your mind. I’ve got a clear picture of the…
A legendary night on Scotland Road

From ‘Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road’ by Ken Rogers (published 2010 by Trinity Mirror Media): Scotland Road, or…
A testing life in late 1800s Everton

By KEN ROGERS We’ve all got intriguing family stories about our grandparents. My dad Harry Rogers used to say that…