Peter raises a glass to one of the city's biggest industries

FORMER WINE MERCHANT RECALLS HOW LIVERPOOL'S SHIP INDUSTRY CREATED A BOOM FOR GLOBAL IMPORTERS OF WINES

- By DANNY GUTMANN

NOW in his 90s, Peter Wiggins spent his earlier years working as an area manager for some of Liverpool's biggest businesses.

Having grown up in the south of England and moving to Liverpool as a young man, it was at the age of 29 in 1964 that Peter began his career working in what was then one of city’s most profitable industries.

Over the course of his career, Peter helped distribute the vast array of alcoholic produce from some of the biggest wine and alcohol merchants in the north of England.

Looking back to the very first days of his career, Peter, 90, recalls: “I started in 1964 at Baty's, which was stationed on 37 to 41 North John Street. And I left this particular firm and went to another one in Warrington called Greenall’s.”