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New Toxteth riots pictures on display at Liverpool Slavery museum

PHOTOGRAPHS of the “other side” of the 1981 Toxteth riots have gone on show in Liverpool for the first time in 30 years.

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Toxteth riots 1981: New exhibition marks 30th anniversary plus a Liverpool 8...

A NEW exhibition at Liverpool's Slavery Museum is telling the unseen story of the 1981 Toxteth riots.

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Toxteth riots 30 years on: What's in a name? In the case of Toxteth, quite a lot

There is a rich history attached to the area as William Leece discovers

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Leader: We must never forget the lessons of the Toxteth riots

THIRTY years on from the Toxteth riots, they remain as fresh in the memory for those who experienced them as if they had happened yesterday.

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Toxteth Riots 1981 background - and how it all began

Background to the unrest in Toxteth during July 1981

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Leroy Cooper: The Toxteth Riots were a wake-up call and did some good

Leroy Cooper, the man whose arrest sparked the Toxteth Riots in 1981, tells Marc Waddington how it was a wake-up call to the establishment

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Toxteth riots 30 years on: July 4 1981

NO sooner had the overnight events of July 4 1981 sunk into the awareness of the people of Liverpool than photographs of the devastation were being flashed around the world.

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Toxteth riots 30 years on Jimi Jagne, now 47, recalls the part he played in...

Jimi Jagne, now 47, recalls the part he played in the Toxteth riots

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Toxteth riots 30 years on: July 5

JUST after midnight columns of police advance towards 300 youths and are attacked by bricks and petrol bombs. Gangs build a barricade and pelt passing drivers with stones at the Grove Street junction.

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Toxteth Riots 30 years on: Fire fighter Joe Kelsall recalls the outbreak of...

Joe Kelsall, Divisional Fire Officer with Central Division, which includes Toxteth was on duty on the night

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Toxteth Riots 1981: Policeman Mike Eveleigh remembers being on the front line...

Mike Eveleigh, a 32-year-old PC working in Wirral, was called over to Liverpool to help.

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Merseyside Police's present chief constable Jon Murphy remembers being a PC...

Merseyside Police’s present chief constable Jon Murphy was a PC at the time of the riots. Here he recalls the role of the Operation Support Division:

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Toxteth riots 30 years on: July 7, 1981

AFTER the meeting with Home Secretary Mr Whitelaw, [council leader] Sir Trevor Jones talked of what he believed Toxteth needed in the riots’ aftermath.

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Toxteth Riots 30 years on: David Sullivan a senior manager with North West...

David Sullivan, 55, now a senior manager with North West Regional Ambulance service, was on duty during the riots

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Echo correspondent Ian Hernon interviews Lord Heseltine on the Toxteth riots

Michael Heseltine was the government minister tasked with dealing with the Toxteth Riots. He tells Ian Hernon how three decades on the city is transformed

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£500m and 30 years on... so what’s changed for Toxteth?

William Leece reports on the aftermath of the riots

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How a Toxteth corner hopes to become Liverpool's food mile

STROLLING down Lodge Lane it’s easy to see how it could become Liverpool’s food mile. In the last few years, this corner of Toxteth has a host of new restaurants and speciality food shops springing up...

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Toxteth Riots 30 years on: Peter Grant’s first hand account of the riots

ECHO journalist Peter Grant lived in Toxteth at the time of the riots. He recalls covering the tumultuous time in the city’s history

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Toxteth Riots 30 years on: Phina Oruche on the Toxteth she knew (VIDEO)

ECHO columnist, actress and radio presenter Phina Oruche grew up in Liverpool 8. Here she talks about the Toxteth she knew . . .

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Your memories of the Toxteth riots 1981

ECHO readers tell William Leece their memories of the 1981 Toxteth riots

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