Liverpool People by Stephen Shakeshaft. An exhibition at the National Conservation Centre, 18 September 2009 to 24 January 2010.

Bessie Braddock

woman wearing cricket pads holding a cricket bat at the wicket

© Liverpool Daily Post and Echo

"They don't make politicians like this anymore. Image rights didn't exist. Bessie always wore a chunky overcoat and a hat with a hairpin, she represented the working class people in Liverpool in the best possible sense of the word. In this picture she was supporting a charity cricket match in Aigburth."

Stephen Shakeshaft

 

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