This book is a combination of historic and contemporary data, mixed with some anecdotal material which I have gathered in the process of living in Liverpool for the last 70 years, and has subsequently been collected and processed during the last five years .
It describes the history of people and places, the events and dramas which gave to Liverpool, and to this book, the title of ‘The Gateway to America’. The emphasis will always be on Maritime connections as they are the foundation for most of the connections to, and from, the United States.