Liverpool Merchant Navy Day 2014
Sunday 7th September saw the Merchant Navy day service at St Nicholas Church and the Pier Head. It was a beautiful sunny day with a great turnout.
Videos
The Alex Owens Interviews – Part 5
In the 1990’s Alex Owens and his friend Dave made a serious of video recordings documenting the memories and stories of their friends and local ex seamen. Here is part 5 from the series.
The Alex Owens interviews – Part 4
In the 1990’s Alex Owens and his friend Dave made a serious of video recordings documenting the memories and stories of their friends and local ex seamen. Here is part 4 from the series.
Liverpool Docks (1972)
British Pathe have recently put over 81,000 films from their collection onto Youtube. It really is amazing to go through them. Heres one we found from 1972 which looks like it was mainly shot in the Coburg Dock, classified as unissued and unused material, hence no audio. Beautiful footage.
HMS Thetis Memorial
The 75th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Thetis was marked by a memorial being unveiled in Birkenhead showing the names of all those who died. Here’s Bill Smith and Ronnie Swain talking about their experiences of seeing the Thetis at the time of the disaster.
The Indefatigable 150th Celebration
Footage from this weekend’s special celebrations in Anglesey.
Empress of Ireland memorial service
The Liverpool Retired Merchant Seafarers held a memorial service for the 1,012 people lost in the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in the Saint Lawrence river on May 29, 1914. The service took place in the Liverpool Parish Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Chapel Street, at 2.30pm on Thursday, May 29, 2014.
The Queen on the Liverpool Duck Bus
Filmed by Russell a couple of years ago, here is the Queen on the Yellow Duck bus, before it sank.
The Alex Owen’s Interviews – Part Three
Here’s part three from our series of interviews that Alex Owens did in Liverpool in the 1990’s. Again, if anyone knows any of the participants, please do let me know.
Covering Items Using a Simple Half Hitch
Brian demonstrates how to do some simple half hitching.
The Alex Owens Recordings – Part Two
Part Two in our series of VHS recordings of Liverpool Seafarers made by Alex Owens in the 1990’s. Some really interesting stories here and strange to see people smoking inside a pub! Mike Feltham has recognised some of the people featured in the video, who were members of the Anchorage Club. From Left to Right Ron Graves Les Dobbing…
The Alex Owens Recordings – Part One
In the 1990’s Alex Owen’s made a series of VHS recordings of Liverpool Seafarers talking about their memories and seafaring stories. We’ve digitised them and will be publishing them here as part of a series of archive interviews. This is part one. Please let us know if you recognise any of the interviewees. Mike Feltham has recognised the people in…