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It's 50 years since a clearance programme of almost biblical proportions changed the face of Liverpool's most famous inner-city districts forever.

In the front line, as the bulldozers relentlessly wiped out over 100 years of open-door community living, was the historic district of EVERTON and it's famous neighbour, the self-styled independent republic of 'SCOTTIE ROAD'.
Over 100,000 people were scattered far and wide to places like Kirkby, Skelmersdale and Speke.
These people became ...

'THE LOST TRIBE OF EVERTON AND SCOTTIE ROAD'

Others stayed to experience 'High-Rise Heaven' or 'High-Rise Hell' and their story is also told in this remarkable book, written by award-winning journalist KEN ROGERS, who was brought up in the area during the slum clearance revolution and has never forgotten his boyhood roots.

He reveals how the Everton and Scottie Road districts expanded at the speed of light up 'The Hill' in the mid-19th Century, to swamp the mansions of the rich merchants who had claimed the district as their own.

This unstoppable working-class army transformed Everton's green slopes into a dense concrete jungle. Thousands of back-to-back terraced houses might have been lacking in basic amenities like baths, inside toilets and hot-running water ... But if you came from Everton or Scottie Road, shopped along 'Greaty's' famous mile, or visited the area's legendary markets, you felt as if you were part of a very special community family.

This book will take you back 'home' and make you feel proud