Caroline: A few weeks ago, on a rainy Monday afternoon, I took a train towards Liverpool from the village where I live. Train announcer: This train is for Liverpool Central Caroline: Then, from the city centre, I took another train out to the suburbs that stretch along the river Mersey
Caroline: The Thames is probably the most storied river in the world. Its 215 mile expanse, from its source at Kemble in Gloucestershire to the far reaches of the estuary where it joins the North Sea on the east coast, feature in countless poems, novels, songs, paintings and folk tales.
Caroline: It was the spring of 1880 when a young woman named Florence Chandler and her mother, the Baroness von Roques, boarded a steamer in New York bound for Liverpool. Florence was just 17, beautiful, eager and ready for adventure. On board the SS Baltic she met James Maybrick, a
