Liverpool query

[Hackstaple]

I have been trying to find out some things about my maternal grandfather Stanley Victor Murrill. On a variety of official documents he is described as a Composer and sometimes also as an Author. He and his bride were both born in London yet they left and went to live in Liverpool about 1910. There he resided at, and worked from, 18 Clifford St. I think this was close to Abercromby Square and so near the College of Music. I feel he must have gone to Liverpool for a reason. I chased up a rumour that he was associated with the music hall but found no such evidence. Nowhere is he described as a music teacher and, in any case, there was plenty of such work in London at that time. He seems to have been there until the outbreak of the Great War - he was killed in France in 1917 when my mother was only 4 years old.
Clifford St was bombed in the Blitz but I would like to have an idea what sort of premises that was at No.18.
Secondly, and I will pay any expenses, can any kind soul there find anything about him?

[winston]

Hi Hackstaple

I take it you have this info about Stanley,

Name: MURRILL, STANLEY VICTOR
Initials: S V
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps
Unit Text: 11th Bn.
Date of Death: 30/11/1917
Service No: R/39559
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 9
Cemetery: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL         


If you're like me and most you will have, you're not  exactly a newbie to this.

Just curious have you tried contacting the newpapers in Liverpool? You never,  just in case there was an Obit notice about him, maybe Liverpool took him to their hearts.

Wendy.

[Jane Taubman]

I am not sure if this is the correct Clifford Street

The section comes from the
Gore's Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead, 1900. [Part 1: Street List & Street Directory] page 133

at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp

[Hackstaple]

JT - thanks for your input. I did have the war information but the information about Clifford St. is very useful. I was wondering if it was residential but I can see it was a trade area.
I feel he was too insignificant to merit an obit when so many were being killed and he was not in local regiment.
I am not closer to finding out how a Composer of Music made a living in Liverpool in 1913.