

“In 1906, Liverpool Echo sports editor Ernest Edwards noted of a new open-air embankment at Anfield: ‘This huge wall of earth has been termed ‘Spion Kop‘ and no doubt this apt name will always be used in future in referring to this spot”.

Boer soldiers at Spion Kop hill, 1900. Read more about the militarized colonial invaders of South Africa in The Dictionary of Foundational Black British Surnames Part Two.
The Foundational Black Koppites form a larger narrative which evidence the first Charter for Liverpool by FB King John. Coming soon…














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