How to make a Crown or Back Splice.
Brian demonstrates how to make a back splice.
Stories
Armistice Day Service
Held today on the Pier Head by the M.N. memorial, with Bob Evans.
Bootle Bull Ringtone
I found this on the Ships Nostalgia website today. The Bootle Lighthouse on the Mersey was first built in 1877 to serve the Port of Liverpool and the fog siren was situated – on the north wall of Gladstone Dock in Liverpool. The fog siren was called the Bootle Bull because the sound could be heard for miles around, it…
How to do Rope Splicing
Brian demonstrates how to do an effective rope splice that has a number of different uses.
Arctic Star Presentations
Filmed in London last year on 8th September 2013. You might recognise Tony Snelling who featured in our BOA70 film that we recently posted.
BOA70
Battle of the Atlantic Memories is a specially commissioned film to document the 70th anniversary commemorations in Liverpool, with surviving Royal Navy and Merchant Navy veterans of the Battle of the Atlantic campaign. The film is a unique project documenting the reunions, the ceremonial and the personal. Liverpool plays host to an emotional, poignant and timely record of a historic…
Liverpool Waterfront Film – 1950
1950, Film starring Robert Newton, Richard Burton and Kathleen Harrison,in which there are street scenes of both Liverpool and Bootle, shots of the LOHR, St Martins Cottages, G.H.Lee’s and Owen Owen’sand Brown Brothers, plus dock locations and the Pier Head. No scouse accents though.
Liverpool Merchant Navy Day 2014
Sunday 7th September saw the Merchant Navy day service at St Nicholas Church and the Pier Head. It was a beautiful sunny day with a great turnout.
The Alex Owens Interviews – Part 5
In the 1990’s Alex Owens and his friend Dave made a serious of video recordings documenting the memories and stories of their friends and local ex seamen. Here is part 5 from the series.
The Alex Owens interviews – Part 4
In the 1990’s Alex Owens and his friend Dave made a serious of video recordings documenting the memories and stories of their friends and local ex seamen. Here is part 4 from the series.
Liverpool Docks (1972)
British Pathe have recently put over 81,000 films from their collection onto Youtube. It really is amazing to go through them. Heres one we found from 1972 which looks like it was mainly shot in the Coburg Dock, classified as unissued and unused material, hence no audio. Beautiful footage.
HMS Thetis Memorial
The 75th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Thetis was marked by a memorial being unveiled in Birkenhead showing the names of all those who died. Here’s Bill Smith and Ronnie Swain talking about their experiences of seeing the Thetis at the time of the disaster.