Our City will always be known in Maritime circles mate and I for one am so proud of our Seafaring history. My Dad Was in the Merchant Navy, during the war, he served in the North Atlantic Convoys, going up to Murmansk and Archangel in Russia. Liverpool Naval history is fascinating. I read something the other week that I did not know about. Apparently, the building on the corner of Duke St and Berry St, that used to be, The White Lion Pub, was originally, the family home of the owners of what was a Liverpool shipping family that the Tv Drama, The Onedin Line was based on.

@@stephensmith4480 The sea was so ingrained into the fabric of Liverpool society, if you weren't actually on the ships you were probably loading and unloading them. Now its all history. Do you remember the scene in "Boys from the black stuff" where the grandfather gets pushed round the decaying docks in his wheel chair Steve? heartbreaking stuff, that I still remember 40 years later. My own Dad (born off Stanley Rd), was in the Royal Navy during WW2, and saw "proper action". He witnessed the Bismarck being sunk, and took part in the rescue of the survivors, survived his own ship being sunk in the Indian ocean by Japanese dive bombers a year later and clung to wreckage for 33 hours before rescue, then 2 years in the Med onboard HMS Warspite and Valiant. He was born in Bootle and always used to say about Liverpool, It had some of the world's best architecture within half a mile of some of its worst slums. (You can guess which part we were from !!). After doing my family tree over the last 20 years, I found more than a few merchant sailors in there, one of my great grandfathers and his son both drowned in accidents in Princes dock in different years, one in 1913 the other in 1954, my uncle who died in 1954 had, like your own Dad, had spent the war backwards and forwards across the Atlantic, The Murmansk run must've been the worst of all, both the weather, u-boats & aircraft all trying to kill you, bloody disgrace they had to wait so long for a campaign medal. All the best Steve.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Cheers my friend for sharing those magnificent experiences that your family went through. I was born and bred in the Dingle, so were all my family except my Dad and my maternal Grandmother. My Dad was born on the Island of St Helena and went away to sea as soon as he could, my Nana was born in Ireland. Like you say, the sea is just ingrained into Liverpool, my uncles all went away to sea and worked on the docks when they finished, up until retirement. My Dad used to laugh when I used to tell him that I got seasick. He said, you can never appreciate the power of the open seas until you have actually experienced it. I actually went aboard HMS Warspite ( obviously not the one your Dad was on ) when she visited Seaforth docks in the 80s. We have a Maritime history that is second to none. The last confederate Navy ship CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant commander James waddell, surrendered in Liverpool because he had been at sea and did not know that the American Civil war had ended and he feared that he would be accused of Piracy. He knew that Liverpool was very pro confederacy and that`s a story worth researching all on it`s own. Take care my friend and stay safe 👍

@@stephensmith4480 Yours and my family Steve, are like so many others, We've got English, Irish, a bit of Scots and even a touch of Canadian amongst our family's ranks, but your dad coming from St Helena is an unusual & interesting one, and trumps my family roots!!! Have you done some family research? I find it fascinating, and done properly it really is like writing the historical narrative of your own family. Its always interesting to talk with someone like yourself steeped in Liverpool history. There is indeed a lot of US civil war confederacy links in Liverpool, the first US consul in Paradise street (which used to be the "Eagle" pub & now part of "liverpool one"). The Confederate embassy in Rumford place as well as others in Toxteth, and as far north as Crosby where apparently confederate & union sympathisers and agents plotted against each other's efforts to obtain war supplies from the UK in various pubs & private homes. Bang on with your dad's observation re: the power of the sea, my Dad told me about sailing across the bay of Biscay accompanying one of the RN aircraft carriers late in the war and said how awed he was to see such mighty ships completely dissappear out of sight in the trough of waves only to reappear seconds later towering over him. I'm like you, always had the highest regard for sailors, and would never volunteer for a life at sea. The next time your in the Maritime museum, if you go to the "Battle of the Atlantic" hall, in one of the display cases there, is a little aluminium disk, and a dirty old oily rag. The disk is a dogtag from the German "Bismarck" survivor that dad pulled from the sea in May 1941, and the "oily rag" is the remains of Dad's lifebelt that kept him afloat after his ship (HMS Dorsetshire) was sunk in April 1942.... he kept it right through the war and it hung on a nail in our garden shed for 50 years until I told him to donate it and the dogtag to the museum in the early 90s. Great talking Steve, keep interested and take care !!!

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Wow, that is amazing that items with such a close and personal connection and a very historical connection too, are in the Maritime museum, for all to see. I have made a mental note of that and will definitely make a point to look them up, next time that I am down there, which is long overdue. My missus is from Belfast and her Dad spent all his working life in the Shipyards at Harland & Wolfe. With reference to The Confederacy, I read something a while ago about a monument of some kind which I think is in Bury and it`s something to do with the forming of The Constitution, but I can`t quite remember the details. I`m sure there will be something on the Net regarding it. Well, once again, many thanks for your time on what has been a very interesting Topic of discussion. Take care my friend and Best wishes. ⛵

Hard agree.

WOULD BE PERFECT TODAY TO GET FANS TO + FROM THE NEW EVERTON STADIUM BRAMLY MOORE, DOCK..LABOUR MARXIST COUNCIL HAVE DESTROYED LIVERPOOL

You can still see sections of it particularly Moore Street

Perhaps you just shut the fuck up . Grammar police

Don't you mean the Royla Albert Dock? 😂

@@caramelldansen2204 Yeah haha

I hate to say it but without the intervention of Michael Hezeltine Liverpools neanderthal council would have demolished it.

It was built in 1848 actually

I was wondering why I couldn't place the lay out.

I remember typetalk being there

Me too - I worked there!

@@anthonyboner3070 my wife worked there too

Never had a Wilkinsons on Speke Retail Park.. There was a DIY store before B&Q but can't remember the name, It was based in St Helens.

But not the poor English.

@@johnburns4017 LOL!

Learn something new every day 👍

1840s more like.

Yeah I was getting so wound up by the spelling!

Well said 👍

Goree Piazza they called it

Pauline Ashley House it was run by RNID charity and funded by BT as a regional TED centre. Later moved to new offices in liverpool docklands

River room tomato soup warm roll looking out overs the Mersey. Felt like a millionaire

@@GETOUTTHERE Ya right there mate 👍

I remember the "River rooms" as "the Berni Inn". Ate a god few steaks in there over the years. Remember the cafe in the Pier Head bus sheds that sold the sugar doughnuts. Used to watch them on the machine being deep fried and dipped in sugar, then passed to you through a serving hatch onto the main concourse.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Remember it like it was yesterday mate and all the Bus Drivers would be hanging around, drinking cups of Tea, waiting for their next Bus out. Those Doughnuts were the star of the show.

@@stephensmith4480 Aye, thats right Ste. My "old feller" was one of them bus drivers.... He used to drive the NO.10 route Pier Head to Prescot / Rainhill Stoops, and "Me mum" was a "clippee" clicking your bus ticket (before they went to "one man operated" buses).I know the city centre looks better now than it did 40 years ago, but somehow I'd go back there at the drop of a hat, Happy times, well for me at least. All the best Ste.

Didn’t even no they existed 🤦‍♂️ wow

My granddad and his brother drove one. They were called "Puffing Billies" in Liverpool. There's one on display in the Museum of Liverpool.

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1st leave the poor person alone. They have gone out of their way to make this Vlog. 2nd why mention you have travelled the world it has no relevance to this subject but to make yourself look bigger. I have travelled the world not for work but for leisure but so what. Out of 8 billion people in the world most have travelled the world you’re not special. 3rd to criticise a person on their spelling you must get great pleasure from this or you was bullied in your life or childhood you find this to be the case when a person reaches adulthood they take great pleasure in pointing out other peoples faults.

@@561jeffkelly Some points. Yes I make the spelling comment BECAUSE everything else was so professional. I spend more time and effort congratulating their work. I then say I travelled professionally (I was paid to travel to work rather than visit and enjoy) and given the options the World has to offer was still more than happy to express the preference as to where I retired because I love our city. As much as I have been willing to listen to your feedback perhaps you might listen to mine. Please go the extra mile and try to comprehend rather than just read. I am guessing you might have had to coach individuals in the past were it’s important to provide points of improvement first but frame it so that as you complete the interaction you are more positive focused. Now re-read my post and recognise it for what it was saying it was really good enjoyable constructed with love and enthusiasm that was reflected in the published piece. At no stage did I make the assumptions you did. Nor did I attempt to make pithy insults. I am however pleased that you took the time to write.