My friend Bernie Carroll, who has died aged 75, was an inveterate writer of letters to the Liverpool Echo newspaper, firing off four or five of them each week over a period of about 40 years. He was labelled “the most opinionated man in Liverpool” by one Echo reporter, and embraced the title with glee.
Bernie also made a local name for himself as one of the maverick members of the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun, a gathering place for experimental actors, writers, musicians and free-thinkers that was based in an old fruit warehouse during the 1970s.
