For any Old Dockers

[Sheelagh Tequila]

Thank you for all the great photo`s...........

Sheelagh

[Dan]

1911

1917

1930s Luggage Labels


1949 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Visit




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Dan

[lily8]

Hiya Dan book me one of those healthful 1st class holidays please at 15 guineas all found plus cruise that's got to be happy days

[Invicta]

No en Suite facilities Lily but at 15 Guineas all found we could manage Ken

[Dan]

Remains of column support

Base of column support


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Dan

[lily8]

No en Suite facilities Lily but at 15 Guineas all found we could manage Ken

You betcha Ken

[Dan]

The Blue Flue



1949




Lily, this may be more to your liking. Looks like they offer a free sailor with each trip.

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Dan

[Dan]

1909

1910

1911

1912

1917


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Dan

[Dan]

1924
1926

1935

1961

1969

1923

1937

1959


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Dan

[fatboyjoe90]

Great photos once again Dan.

[Dan]

Thanks Joe.
Most of this is from the Smithsonian Titanic Collection.
Blueprints



Constuction




Turbine Rotor

Olympic and Titanic


Chart

Albion House 1912


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Dan

[lily8]

Lily, this may be more to your liking. Looks like they offer a free sailor with each trip.

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Dan

Dan you know what they say all the nice girls love a sailor

By the way great pics and info thanks

[Dan]

River Amazon Cruise




SS Hubert


1963 Queen's Dock SS Bede


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Dan

[Dan]

1917

1919

1935


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Dan

[nicolas]

Thanks for that link Dan, for Newfoundland, I've just posted my application off, can't wait

[Dan]

A couple more for all you bargain hunters.

1834

1848

1853

1886


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Dan

[Dan]

1922

1929

1930 On the Clyde

1930 Duchess of Richmond

1931

1947

March 1956 New Empress of Britain Gladstone Dock

[
IOM Ferry and Empress of Canada. Atlantic Tower Hotel under construction


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Dan

[Invicta]

Great stuff Dan,
I like the poster which says "Surgeon on every voyage, free to passengers"
On P&O Cruises it costs £70 to cross the threshold of the medical centre even if you only need a plaster
Ken

[Dan]

I noticed that as well Ken.
It made me smile because on the Old Mersey Times site there's an extract from the Liverpool Mercury, that reported the earliest doctors required a police escort when visiting patients in the courts. The tenants did not trust the 'Burkers' as they were called, as they believed the doctors to be body snatchers..
Contemporary accounts can often be more revealing than looking backwards through a telescope.

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Dan

[Dan]

1911 Lusitania

1912 Lusitania at the Pier Head


1914 Aquitania Maiden Voyage Liverpool to New York

1936 Queen Mary John Brown's Clydebank

Queen Mary in the Clyde

1938 Construction of Mauretania Engines

July 1938 Mauretania ready for launch from Cammell Laird

Launch of Mauretania

1939 Mauretania Maiden Voyage

1938 Construction of the Queen Elizabeth




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Dan

[lily8]

Great stuff Dan, I would imagine cruising in those days would have been really been something. I was looking at the CPS ad for the cycling holiday and noticed Percy Brazendales' name we forget now just how big cycling was. This article is interesting and features Percy:::::: http://www.cyclingnorthwales.co.uk/pages/liverpool.htm

[Dan]

Thanks for that Lily. One of the things I like when you look back only a hundred years or so is finding words that never took root.
For the next week I will use "velocipede" at every opportunity. It joins automobilist/automobilism and Liverpolitan in my vocabulary notebook.

The Vestey Family shipping line.

1927

1935

1936

1962


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Dan

[lily8]

Yes Dan we seem to have dropped the velocipede but have retained the velodrome

[Invicta]

Cunard 1908 lunch menu has “ Succotach “. Origins seem to be US South
I checked the recipe it looks quite nice and would please vegetarians, lots of corn and beans.
Ken

[Dan]

Some more from the docks.
1912

1913

Royal yacht Galatea at the Gladstone Dock opening


1952 Gladstone Dock


Clarence Graving Dock

Looking for our chippies

South Docks


Regards

Dan

[Dan]

Ken,
I think it was Daffy Duck who used to exclaim "Suffering succotach !" when he was annoyed.
Now the whole cosmos makes sense.

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Dan

[Dan]

1922



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Dan

[Invicta]

Ken,
I think it was Daffy Duck who used to exclaim "Suffering succotach !" when he was annoyed.
Now the whole cosmos makes sense.

Regards

Dan

That’ll be it then Dan, staple diet for ducks

This thread has been very interesting for me. During my Timber Apprenticeship I dealt with many of those Lines or their Agents as we were importing Plywood from all over the World into Liverpool but usually unloaded in North End docks in Bootle. The next rotation was checking cargo so I got to spend time on the docks. Later I had a couple of years out of the trade and I worked 2 Winters on the new Seaforth Dock for Norwest . Later in my Timber career we brought many a cargo back to Bootle both conventional and container shipments. I just wish my old Dad had been working to tell his mates “ That’s my Lads Wood”

[Dan]

The Red Duster


1917

1919

1935

1939

HMT Dorsetshire

HMT Empire Windrush

The founder of the Bibby Line, John Bibby, lived in a villa, named Mount Pleasant, on Linacre Marsh.
In 1840 he was beaten up and found, drowned, in a pond on Stand Park.

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Dan

[Bill fawcett]

This is an email I sent to Peter Elson, the Shipping Correspondent of the Liverpool Echo, about a book I bought for 50p at a car boot sale.

"Hi Peter, I have in my possession a 700 page book from 1877 titled The Guion Line of U.S.Mail Steamers. Official Guide.
The address for this company was 25 Water St, Liverpool.
I would be grateful if you could tell me anything about this book and whether you think The Maritime Museum would be interested in it.
I have attached a couple of photo's."
Thanks Bill Fawcett






This is the reply I received.

Re: Guion Line Guide 1877
Dear William
What an amazing book to have! I'm afraid that I haven't seen one before and have no idea of its monetary value, but to me it seems a wonderful piece of Liverpool history. I guess the line's local office building at 25 Water St is long gone, as that area was so badly blitzed.
Likewise, I can't say if the Maritime Museum is interested. They have so much stuff donated that it all goes into storage. If you want a home for it, I keep a library of material here that readers occasionally pass on to me - what ever you do, please don't bin it!
I have copied the paragraph below out of Wikipedia for you in case you've not seen it and as noted the line was liquidated in 1894.
Thanks for contacting me.
Peter
Peter Elson
Shipping Correspondent
Liverpool Echo
Tel 0151 330 5042

The Liverpool and Great Western Steamship Company, known commonly as the Guion Line, was a British passenger service that operated the Liverpool-Queenstown-New York route from 1866 to 1894. While incorporated in Great Britain, 52% of the company's capital was from the American firm, Williams and Guion of New York. Known primarily for transporting immigrants, in 1879 the line started commissioning Blue Riband record breakers to compete against Cunard, White Star and Inman for first class passengers. The financial troubles of one of the company's major partners in 1884 forced the firm to return its latest record breaker, the Oregon, to her builders and focus again on the immigrant trade. The company suspended sailings in 1894 because of new American restrictions on immigrant traffic.

ENDS)

Bill

[Dan]

Evening Bill
He's right- there's so little written down about the industrialisation of Merseyside in that era.
There are quite a few of the shipping lines that didn't make it to the modern era, but I've been aware of Guion for years. I used to pass Guion Road off Linacre Road, on the 28, at twenty to six in the morning going into Bibbys for the 7 'til 7 shift. I thought it was an unusual name, so I looked it up, about 36 years ago.
I should really have taken up a hobby.

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Dan

[Dan]

1780-1860


No formal training, but I bet he was great with Lego.

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Dan

[Dan]

Link to a publication:" Working Practices and Malpractices in the Ports of Liverpool,London and New York 1945-1972"

http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5634/1/403287.pdf

Could be a decent Mastermind topic.

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Dan

[Dan]

Link for PhD thesis submitted by Greig Taylor in 2012: The Dynamics of Labour Relations at The Port of Liverpool 1967-1989

https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/332951/1/Grei ... cument.pdf

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Dan

[Dan]

Link for 2004 nomination for World Heritage Status

https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1150.pdf

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Dan