Arwe, is the story of Arrowe, Pensby and the Liverpool Slave Trade.
In Arwe, the Liverpool Slave Trade and its links with Arrowe are deeply explored. Former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, John Shaw and his family bought and built up the Arrowe Estate with money made from transporting slaves in his Liverpool fleet.
The history of Pensby and the forgotten hamlet of Newtown are also recorded. Another story told is that of Wirral‘s worst plane crash in which 24 young American servicemen died when their Liberator B24 bomber came down between Landican and Storeton in 1944, near what is today the M53 motorway.
A guided walk through Irby, a heroic rescue attempt by two young Heswall fishermen, windmilling, the poaching antics of the Price family of Heswall and the heroics of Sergeant James Dawson, D.C.M., all make interesting reading and contain many anecdotes, little known facts, photographs and maps.