Last week, Olivia visited the Archaeology team from the Museum of Liverpool on site at their exciting archaeological dig, undertaken as part of the ‘Galkoff’s and the Secrets of Pembroke Place’ project. In partnership with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, they have been excavating the cellars of two demolished court houses, now located underneath a car park on Oakes Street. Court houses were typical homes for the working class in the mid 19th century and Pembroke Place is the location of the last surviving buildings of this kind in Liverpool. During the dig, the team have found everything from shoes, beer bottles, pottery, a soap dish and dominoes made from bone and it was amazing to see how much survived in such a small area. As part of the project, the iconic green tiles that formed the outside of Galkoff’s butcher’s shop have also been removed and will be displayed at the Museum of Liverpool in a special exhibition in October. For more information about the project, check out their website: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/galkoff/
Vanessa Oakden, Curator of Community Archaeology at Museum of Liverpool, was working on-site and it was a good opportunity to catch up about the archaeological test-pitting that we’ll be carrying out around The Old Library next year. From looking at historic maps, it seems that the land on which the library was built used to be fields, although that’s hard to imagine now! This means we might not find the same kind of items as in a built-up, urban environment but we will be recruiting volunteers later in the year to carry out research into the Tuebrook area, which we hope will give us some clues about where to dig and what we might find. Keep an eye on our volunteering page for more details about this exciting project.
The Museum of Liverpool will be using the research they’ve carried out and the finds from their excavation to build up a better picture of what life used to be like in Pembroke Place. We hope to do the same for our local area and will be working with the community to display what we find inside The Old Library when it re-opens, helping people to learn more about our heritage and preserve it for future generations.
Vanessa Oakden, Curator of Community Archaeology at Museum of Liverpool, was working on-site and it was a good opportunity to catch up about the archaeological test-pitting that we’ll be carrying out around The Old Library next year. From looking at historic maps, it seems that the land on which the library was built used to be fields, although that’s hard to imagine now! This means we might not find the same kind of items as in a built-up, urban environment but we will be recruiting volunteers later in the year to carry out research into the Tuebrook area, which we hope will give us some clues about where to dig and what we might find. Keep an eye on our volunteering page for more details about this exciting project.
The Museum of Liverpool will be using the research they’ve carried out and the finds from their excavation to build up a better picture of what life used to be like in Pembroke Place. We hope to do the same for our local area and will be working with the community to display what we find inside The Old Library when it re-opens, helping people to learn more about our heritage and preserve it for future generations.
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