Paul O'Grady had audiences in stitches for more than three decades and firmly positioned himself as not only a Merseyside legend - but one of our national treasures.
Born Paul James O'Grady on June 14, 1955 in what was once Tranmere Workhouse, Paul was the youngest son of Irish parents Patrick and Mary, known as Molly. In his autobiography, At My Mother's Knee...and Other Low Joints, Paul wrote how he would spend hours at his garden fence watching Cunard liners sailing up the Mersey, the Mirror previously reported.
In his early adulthood, Paul held various jobs in the region, first working as a clerical assistant for the DHSS at their Liverpool office, before becoming an assistant clerk at Liverpool Magistrates' Court. He later worked as a barman at Yates' Wine Lodge, an accountant in an FMC Meats Merseyside abattoir before spending three years at Children's Convalescent Home and School in West Kirkby.
