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.
Posts Tagged "liverpool"
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 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…
Visit to The National Memorial Arboretum.
On Wednesday last week, I was lucky enough to be invited by Captain Mike Feltham to document a trip by the North West Russian Convoy Club to the National Memorial Arboretum in Stafford. Seven veterans in all, plus family and friends made the trip. It was great to meet them, hear their stories and film the veterans at the new…
Liverpool – The Singing City
We found this classic BBC documentary from 1965 on youtube the other day. If you’ve not seen it, it’s well worth a look.
The Blue Funnel Association – Revisited. Part Three
Here’s the final episode from our visit to the Blue Funnel Association last month, featuring Jimmy Roberts and John Fitzgerald.
Ships of the Mersey
Read the full article…‘; A short sample from some audio recordings we think were made in the late 1960’s, early 70’s. I’m trying to find out about the man who made them. Does anyone know?
HMS Birkenhead Memorial
Today, a memorial was unveiled to commemorate 400 men who drowned when the HMS Birkenhead sank off the coast of South Africa 162 years ago.
The Blue Funnel Association – Revisited. Part Two
Here’s the second video from my visit to the Blue Funnel Association last month. Apologies, for some reason I failed to get the name of the first man featured, the second I know is Tommy Owens. If anyone knows his name, please let me know and I’ll add it to the credits. There’s the final video from this night to…
Albion House – White Star and Blue Star Line HQ
Today, I popped down to Albion House, or the White Star Building, which was open 10am – 1pm to the public, to allow people to have a look around the before refurbishment place takes place as it transforms into a new apartment hotel. You can read about that here. Access was limited to one room, and there were plenty of…
The Blue Funnel Association – Revisited. Part 1
The Blue Funnel Association meet up in Liverpool on the last Saturday of every month. I paid a visit last Saturday and talked to a few people about their time with the Blue Funnel and I’ll post them in a series of short videos. This is the first one. There’s an interesting video here from Michael Harrison featuring some of…