My father, Lionel Burman, who has died aged 94, was a museum curator and conservationist who worked mostly in Liverpool and the north-west of England. His museum displays were often ahead of their time and he also played an important role in the conservation of Liverpool’s social history.
Lionel was born in Hampstead, north London, to Jewish parents, Winnie (nee Cohen) and her husband, Leonard, a textiles buyer. At the outbreak of the second world war he and his four siblings were evacuated to Birkdale in Lancashire, while his father was drafted into military intelligence in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
