Sons of The Desert..

Laurel and Hardy came to Liverpool on all three post-war stage tours. The first was 1947, when they packed out the 
Liverpool Empire at each and every show, with hundreds more being turned away. They returned in 1952, but all the exhuberance
of the first visit was absent, and they scarcely made the newspapers. On the third visit, 1953, Laurel & Hardy 
were described in reviews as being "dated." They stayed at the Aldelphi Hotel, in Lime Street, on each occasion.
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