LIVERPOOL INTEREST; two 19th century estate manager's year diaries for 1825 and 1826, possibly for the Sefton Estate, within Lord Sefton is mentioned and also rents, repairs, deaths, The Leeds / Liverpool Canal, field valuations, game birds, notices to quit permission to build cottages and employment of a rat catcher on a no success no fee bases, with seven folding linen backed maps, many with additional colours and notes, including ‘Kirkby, Simonswood & Melling’, ‘West Kirby, Croxteth & Knowsley’, and ‘Thornton Lunt, Seeton, Netherton Aintree, Litherland Orrell & Ford’ (9).