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.
This was before you’d get a certificate for learning how to climb a ladder. it was bombed in WW2 in 1941 and later restored to its original condition.
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…
Brian and Russell demonstrate a simple way to make a large Turk’s Head knot using a home made board.
Cathy loves her life in the Albert Dock.
Some photos we took at the Pier Head today at the Merchant Navy Day Memorial Service.
Here’s Pat Moran, interviewed by in 2010 for our Mapping & Memory project. We only used a small part of this interview in the film so it’s nice to be able to share the full interview here.
Here’s some footage from 2011 filmed in the Albert Dock for the Mapping & Memory project we were working on at the time. This is footage that wasn’t used in the project, but worth sharing. Sadly, Bill and Dave are no longer with us.
A tale of giant anacondas in the Gulf of Mexico following a hurricane in 2002.
Spotted this on the BFI Player this week – it’s a lovely piece on China Town in Liverpool made by the ‘Here and Now’ tv programme in 1981. Wishing you the very best for Christmas and the New Year.