Amazing artwork currently at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral until Thursday 31st May. Artist Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon fuses lunar imaginary, moonlight and surround soundscape and has been programmed to tie in with the Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta and the ever changing tides.
A very hot bank holiday in Liverpool was also marked by the annual memorial of the sinking of the Lusitania, 103 years ago today. I went along to attend the service and took a few photographs which you can see below. The area around the propeller will be opened up in the new future to make the memorial more accessible…
Some footage from a ceremony on Monday 27th November to re-dedicate 31 Dutch Chinese graves in Anfield Cemetery. The Chinese sailors who worked for Dutch Shipping Companies and perished at sea or in Liverpool during or after WWII and were buried in Anfield without headstones. Find out more here www.soundagents.blogspot.com
A great turn out part from the council allowing a fairground to be constructed 3 metres away from the Merchant Navy Memorial.
Footage from Armed Forces Day in Liverpool, filmed on 24th June 2017.
Merseyside Museum commemorates Suez Canal anniversary Merseyside Maritime Museum is looking for former seafarers who were on a stranded ship on the Suez Canal between June 1967 and June 1975 to attend a special 50th anniversary reunion at Merseyside Maritime Museum on Thursday 1 June. 14 merchant ships were stranded in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal…
Scenes from the Pier Head yesterday in Liverpool.
Some footage shot at St Nic’s Church today along with at the Merchant Navy Memorial at the Pier Head.
Today, to celebrate Merchant Navy day, The Planteers at the Liverpool Bar Light Ship will be radiating morse code around the world to say thanks again to the Merchant Navy.
Filmed on the Pier Head and St Nic Church on Saturday 15th August
A Memorial for the MIMOSA was unveiled on Saturday, 30th May to commemorate the sailing of the Ship MIMOSA, One Hundred and Fifty years ago with the first Welsh settlers going out to Patagonia, Argentina. The Memorial is on Princes Parade, Liverpool, ( overlooking the Cruise Terminal ). Huw Edwards was in attendance along with the Welsh Minister of State…
Filmed on 25th May, as the three Cunard Liners meet in the Mersey. Part of the city celebrations for the 175 Cunard anniversary spectacular. Find out more here.