Liverpool Packet No.1 - A Picture History of Liverpool & Merseyside, Liverpool Street Songs & Broadside Ballads. This is a wallet file containing a loose collection of facsimile reproductions of broadside publications (the forerunners of tabloid newspapers) assembled by Fritz Spiegl; salacious details of gory murders, tragedies, accidents, shipwrecks, etc. Published by Scouse Press, 1965, and still available from them.

Spiegl was born in 1926 near the Hungarian border of Austria. His parents succeeded in leaving the country in 1939, eventually escaping to Bolivia while sending Fritz and his older sister to England. Eventually he went to London to work for an advertising agency. But he soon switched to music, taught himself to play the flute, enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music and, within a short time, became principal flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he kept for more than a decade.

As a composer, Spiegl scored a popular success with the original theme from the TV series Z-Cars, based on "Johnny Todd", a Liverpool sea shanty. His BBC Radio 4 UK Theme, in which folk songs from each of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom are combined, was heard on Radio 4 at the beginning of each morning's broadcasting from November 1978 until April 2006.