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City's iconic first woman MP who still has a major impact today Bessie Braddock fought tirelessly for the people of Liverpool Mrs Bessie Braddock MP Seen here visiting one of the slum areas in Liverpool Woman Member of Parliament Poverty 1962 Look back at great photos and memories from years ago with our Days Gone By newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy ...

In this report from Liverpool from 1963, John Morgan found himself bewildered by the city. He found a mixture of poverty, violence, sectarianism and occasionally nihilism that was unlike anywhere else in the country. The new “Mersey sound” seemed an expression of this mindset and in the Cavern Club violence was found “in the stunning volume of sound, in the incoherence of the dance, and in the wilfully created vacuity of facial and verbal expression”. Meanwhile the streets were the place for the real rough stuff, “scenes of rare ferocity or at best, comic criminality”. Nevertheles...