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North West

 

Liverpool

A house in Liverpool where Andrew Watson Lived. He’s the worlds 1st black footballer born to a slave trader in Guyana in 1856 played for Queen park Bootle FC London Swifts & captained Scotland was club secretary for The Corinthians in St James Palace.

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Charles Wotten race riots 1918; Soldiers back from WW1 no jobs found “Ethiopians” doing the factory work & demanded Lord Mayor to sack them so whites could get the jobs. Mayor wrote to Sec of state to repatriate. Didn’t happen Charles Wooton drowned by mob in Mersey.
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North East
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