TY - BOOK ID - 149856897 TI - Merseyside's Own. PY - 2012 SN - 0752482475 PB - Stroud : The History Press, DB - UniCat KW - Maritime. KW - Shipping industry. KW - Ships. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149856897 AB - Merseyside has been the birthplace or home to literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women. In this book Christine Dawe features a great many of them - from all eras and all walks of life. Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as Kim Cattrall, Daniel Craig, Wayne Rooney and Patricia Routledge, rub shoulders with the historical great and good, including Sir Thomas Beecham, George Stevenson and Sir Alfred Holt - the founder of the famous Cunard shipping line. This book contains more than a hundred mini-biographies of Merseyside's famous sons and daughters - all of whom are illustrated. A ER -