Posts Tagged "birkenhead"

BOA70 – BBC Coverage

BOA70 – BBC Coverage

bbc news from Tim Brunsden on Vimeo. Here is a piece the BBC passed on, a brief summary of the Battle of The Atlantic featuring some memories from Frank Holding and Jack Brotheridge.

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The Launch of the Silverhawk

The Launch of the Silverhawk

The Lord Mayor Councillor Frank Prendergast tells us about his experience at the Launch of the Silverhawk from Cammell Lairds in 1968. Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the…

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