Albert Haworth a founder member of Litherland History Society in 1999. He made huge contributions to the photographic legacy of Litherland by collecting and taking hundreds of photographs over a period of 40 years. Many of the photos on this site were loaned for scanning or gifted by Albert for publication. Albert’s story is told in the featured movie above – a replay of a talk I gave at Litherland History Society on April 2nd 2024.
The video comments on YouTube say ” this is in memory of my friend, the local historian Albert Haworth, given at Litherland History Society a week ago. Today marks the fourth anniversary of his death from Covid on April 9th 2000. Albert was a founder member of Litherland History Society and almost single-handedly documented Litherland in photographs for four decades. The video tells my personal story of how I met him via the Society but then looked after him for four years before his untimely death. It tells the story of his life, his mum and dad, their house in Oxford Avenue, his work in the Bryant and May match factory (following in the footsteps of his dad). It then goes on to show some of his British and European travels from the 1960s, culminating in some of his “photo walks” around Litherland, snapping away with his Leica camera. Albert is sorely missed, his knowledge, enthusiasm and generosity are in short supply. Hopefully this film will help a new generation of Litherland historians remember this fine man”.
Also below is the unedited original post I did on Facebook the night he died in 2020, together with the small collection of photographs posted.
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From Facebook, 4 April, 2020
With heavy heart I’m letting everyone know that my good friend Albert Haworth sadly died earlier today in Aintree Hospital. Albert was a founder member of the Litherland History Society, which I joined when we returned to Litherland after 29 years in 2016. That is where I met him.
Albert’s permission was always granted for use of his original photographs and historical collections on old Litherland. He gifted me many pictures and also I salvaged some from the skip when he died. Some of those destined for the skip are here. What a shame if they would have disappeared – family life in pre- and post-war Litherland.
I looked after Albert for four years, sorting out his little problems and helping him get out and about, when he still was able to do that. It was sad to see his memory and general health decline, but through it all you could see and hear the younger enthusiastic historian who passionately loved Litherland.
He was an only child, and looked after his own Mum past the age of 100 and was in awe of his Dad’s craftsmanship – I’m comforted to know that he will be reunited with them tonight and many of the difficult problems he faced in his final years are at an end.
I thought hard about a tribute and felt the best way was to post some photos of his younger years…
Goodnight Albert, you will be sorely missed by many in Litherland.
