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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

Surviving members of Liverpool community that 'disappeared'

The Liverpool headquarters of the Orange Order faced "row upon row" of terraced houses when it was built.

Now Everton Park sits where those terraces were, and the communities who fuelled the Order's membership now live on the city's fringes. Those still active in the fraternal order - formed in Northern Ireland to support the union, Protestantism and the monarchy - are mostly older, and they struggle to entice a new generation into their ranks.

Liverpool was once the main hub of the Order in Great Britain. A member since she was a child, Joyce Tickle, 74, remembers when Netherfield Road was full of Union Jacks and bunting, and doors were adorned with crepe paper roses for the annual July 12 parade. Vivien Cawley, 77, said the atmosphere was "absolutely amazing", but "the whole community disappeared".

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