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Toxteth: Toxteth, Liverpool Riverside, Jeremiah Horrocks, the Belvedere Academy, Toxteth Unitarian Chapel, 1981 Toxteth Riots

Toxteth: Toxteth, Liverpool Riverside, Jeremiah Horrocks, the Belvedere Academy, Toxteth Unitarian Chapel, 1981 Toxteth Riots


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Toxteth, Liverpool Riverside, Jeremiah Horrocks, the Belvedere Academy, Toxteth Unitarian Chapel, 1981 Toxteth Riots, Herculaneum Pottery, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Rc Church, Church of St James, Liverpool, Royal Park Hotel, Toxteth, Princes Park. Excerpt: 1981 England riots The Toxteth riots of July 1981 were a civil disturbance in inner-city Liverpool, which arose in part from long-standing tensions between the local police and the black community. They followed the Brixton riots earlier that year. Background The Merseyside police force had, at the time, a poor reputation within the black community for stopping and searching young black men in the area, under the "sus" laws, and the perceived heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Alphonse Cooper on Friday 3 July, watched by an angry crowd, led to a disturbance in which three policemen were injured. The existing tensions between police and people had already been noticed by local magistrate, Councillor and Chair of the Merseyside Police Committee, Margaret Simey, who was frequently critical of the tactics used by the then Chief Constable Kenneth Oxford . She said of the rioters "they would be apathetic fools ... if they didn't protest.," although was unprepared for the personal criticism that followed. One main cause of poverty in the area was containerization at the nearby Liverpool Docks, destroying thousands of waterfront -type jobs which had been associated with the city of Liverpool for generations. Unemployment in Britain was at a 50-year high in 1981, and Toxteth had one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Events Over the weekend that followed, disturbance erupted into full-scale rioting, with pitched battles between police and youths in which petrol bombs and paving stones were thrown, and the police employed...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155292373
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Toxteth, Liverpool Riverside, Jeremiah Horrocks, the Belvedere Academy, Toxteth Unitarian Chapel, 1981 Toxteth Riots
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155292375
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 91 gr


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