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Liverpool will certainly win the Championship

I am intending to use this to gather information about several, unrelated subjects of interest to me. For the moment these are:

1. "History of Liverpool"
The history of Liverpool. I edit the Liverpool Heritage Forum News letter. Please see liverpoolheritageforum.org.uk This site contain a series of articles abvout Liverpool, which are shared with a number of other local history societies. The Newsletter has a campaigning theme to convince local people and others of the city's remarkable history and the need to preserve its archaeological remains - in the face of Liverpool City Council's wavering interets in it heritage and gistory and less than full ability to see that cultural tourism has been in 2007 and 2008 a major source of income for the city, a source of wealth which can be steadily expanded.

2. "Family history of George Pearce".
The history of my own family. My earliest known ancestor (going down the male line) was George Pearce who married Sarah Massey at Taplow in Berkshire in 1791. George was described in the record as coming from Mottram near Macclesfield in Cheshire, Sarah as from Taplow. The couple moved to Mottram to property which I think Sarah's family owned beforehand, which leads me to believe that she was only in Taplow for a temporary period of time, perhaps working as a governess in one opf the big houses round there. George and his son prospered and eventually moved to Liverpool as merchants, of timber or wine, in the early 1900s. Several of their offspring took the name Massey as a second forename. A number of Henry Pearces in succeeding generations were cotton brokers in Liverpool. My Grandmother married into a family called Cook, also cotton brokers. My mother's maiden name was Andrew (no 's'), after which I am named.

3. "History of English dioceses"
I am learning about why the dioceses of the Church in England are where are. I have quite a lot if information but would like mto know more. Why was a diocese placed at Lichfield? Why did Augustine have dioceses at Canterbury, Rochester and Lolndon, places quite close together? Are the dioceses existing during during the Roman occupation of Britain known? Why did medieval England have about 18 dioceses when, I understand, Italy had 300?

4. "Stanley tombs at Eastham Church"
It is undertsood that members of the Stanley family, related far back to the Stanleys who became Earls of Derby, are underneath St Mary's Church at Eastham in Wirral. Does anybody know anything about them and where the entrance to them is?

5. "Government spending and policy in North West England."
Under the Barnet formula, expenditure of taxpayers' money which can be attributed to individuals (i.e. excluding, for example, defence) is much more generous to Scotland and Wales than to England. Within England, London gets the largest per capita share! (The figure for this precedes spending on the Olympic Games, Crossrail and the upgrade of the London underground. This is quite unjustified discrimination against the English regions. Some years ago, I campaigned in favour of a regional parliament for the North West but it was not to be. The government has now set up a select committee of the House of Commons for the North West but the Tories and the LibDems refuse to nominate members to it! Is anyone interested in campainging for a better deal generally for the North West, a better share of national money and that our interests be more taken into account in making national policies? Is anyone else as sick as I am about BBC television and Radio 4 being more or less run as London stations, with very little reference to anything happening elsewhere in the UK?

Andrew Pearce

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