BOA 80
Fantastic 80th Anniversary events in Liverpool last weekend. James O’Hanlon captured the spirit of the weekend with these two fantastic videos.
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Merchant Navy Day 22
Footage from today’s service at the Pier Head.
BRISTOL & LIVERPOOL: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
They both served the nation well, in peace and in war.Problematical is that both ports are tainted with the legacy of slavery.In Bristol’s case this was all too apparent in June 2020 when a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest removed the statue of Sir Edward Colston, a 17th century merchant and slave trader. The statue was seen as an anachronism in a city increasingly…
THE SS RICHARD L MONTGOMERY – WHAT’S GOING ON?
Careless – not a word I’d use to describe the professionalism of the Liberty ship crew Richard L Montgomery as she sailed from Philadelphia to the Thames estuary en route to Cherbourg, France. Ultimately the ship was lost, but not before sailing with 6 thousand tonnes of ammunition and keeping close convoy formation amidst an ever-present U-boat threat. She sailed into Loch Ewe, Scotland, thereafter joining a tanker convoy to…
Merchant Navy Day 2020
Footage from the ceremony on Sunday at St Nics in Liverpool.
CHRISTMAS ……….. ACROSS THE OCEANS.
You can hear it on the street: “Christmas isn’t what it used to be – it’s all commercially- driven…..blah,blah!”And to read that ‘One in five Brits do not know that Jesus was born on Christmas Day’ (1).Or, the other statistic which quotes: ‘new poll shows 91% of Brits celebrate Christmas ( but just 22% celebrate the birth of Christ’) (2) – so perhaps they have a point….