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James Stonehouse
b. 1809
A vivid chronicler of old Liverpool, this 19th-century antiquary preserved local stories, streets, and characters that might otherwise have faded from memory. His best-known writing offers a rare, firsthand-looking portrait of the city as it changed over a long lifetime.
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Recollections of Old Liverpool
by James Stonehouse
About the author
James Stonehouse was a Liverpool antiquary and local historian, born in 1809 and recorded by The National Archives as living until 1890. He is closely associated with the preservation of Liverpool's past, especially its streets, customs, and everyday life.
He is best known for Recollections of Old Liverpool, a work built from memories of the city in earlier decades and valued for its lively anecdotes and local detail. His writing helped keep alive parts of Liverpool history that later readers and researchers continued to use.
Stonehouse is also remembered for antiquarian research connected with Liverpool and with Joseph Williamson's Edge Hill tunnels. Reliable portrait images were not clearly available from the sources I could confirm, so no profile image is included.