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Thank you for all the great photo`s...........
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Great photos once again Dan.
Cheers Joe.
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Dan wrote: Lily, this may be more to your liking. Looks like they offer a free sailor with each trip.
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Dan you know what they say all the nice girls love a sailor
By the way great pics and info thanks
Lily
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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That’ll be it then Dan, staple diet for ducksDan wrote: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
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”
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The Red Duster
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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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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
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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
"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
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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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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
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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
http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5634/1/403287.pdf
Could be a decent Mastermind topic.
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Dan
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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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https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/332951/1/Grei ... cument.pdf
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Link for 2004 nomination for World Heritage Status
https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1150.pdf
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Dan
https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1150.pdf
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