Hi to all, in Saturday nights Liverpool Echo in the flashback articles a list of websites were given to aid your family or local history research, included was a free 2 week trial for the GALE Collection. Included in this collection is access to 19th Century periodicals which has most of the Liverpool Mercury's Archive. Go to: http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/login.html Just register, where it asks for institution I just put 'Liverpool Echo', address - I gave any street in Liverpool. I put my own phone number in with an error digit and registered without any problem. The site will send you an email immediately with the password and then you can get searching :-) I've found a few bits and bobs in just a few minutes. Happy hunting! Regards Val in Lancs.