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…
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.
Here’s the final episode from our visit to the Blue Funnel Association last month, featuring Jimmy Roberts and John Fitzgerald.
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.
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…
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 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…
Another short video from Liverpool Stories here. This time from 2012 and Liverpool’s namesake warship, HMS Liverpool as she arrives in the city for her last visit to the city before she is de-commissioned. Here’s some more information from Wikipedia
This is a short video from the Liverpool Stories website about the charity ‘Adventure Under Sail‘ who exist to further people’s education through sail training. Filmed on a lovely sunny day on board the T. S. Pelican when the ship was visiting Liverpool.
Thursday saw the unveiling of a new mosaic at the Eldonian Village Hall to commemorate the Merchant Navy. It was designed by Alan Murray and shows the links between the three cities, Liverpool, New York and Montreal.
A blue plaque was installed today on the premises of the New Capital restaurant in China Town that used to be Blue Funnel offices.
Here’s a short video featuring some aerial shots of the orphanage at Newsham Park. As you can see the building is in a poor state of repair but there is a team of volunteers who are hoping to do some restoration work on the building. You can find out more about this and the history of the orphanage here.