June 12th 2010 - John Alexander Brodie
This is the house at 28, Ullet Road where Liverpool City Engineer John Brodie lived. He is best known as the designer of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel - but his more important invention, I feel, was the football goal net, which was first used in 1890 in a game between Nottingham Forest and Bolton Wanderers. The idea of the nets came to him while watching a match at Everton FC in 1889 when a dispute erupted over whether the ball had passed through the goal posts or not. He also made several proposals for improving the city's roads, including the scheme for Queens Drive.