Farewell to Princes landing stage,
River Mersey fare thee well,
I am bound for Seacombe Ferry,
a place I know right well
original engraving 1840
Happy Whit Sunday. Hope you have a better one that Nat. Hawthorne did at Tranmere Fair in 1855. Other options - steamship to Bristol or the Isle of Man, steam train to North Wales and the opening of St George’s organ.
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Beware of scammers - Victorian style. Warning: contains violence, strong language and exploitation
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@kiwijuanita @Waite99D @MikeRoyden @thedustyteapot Manner of Samuel Walters
The Liverpool pilot cutter Perseverance (no. 12) coming astern of a British brig in the Mersey.
there were 2 pilot-boats named Perseverance (both 12) 1st was a cutter, b. 1842 by Royden at Liverpool, owned by a syndicate of 46 pilot, operated 1842-60.
1855, Exchange Flags, Liverpool: About two o'clock yesterday afternoon, somebody threw a snowball at somebody else, and the idle crowd, with an impulse of warlike emotions, in an incredibly short space commenced a pitched battle of snowballs.
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seeing it’s Xmas, here’s a treat. It has Nathaniel Hawthorne, ships, scandal, banking, international trade negotiations, Liverpool, Beatles and Japanese art.
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The day Jack Kerouac came to Liverpool . . . and the Butterfly Effect ripples on . . . with @thebeatles @petewylie and more. Read all about it:
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's tips on tax avoidance for US shipowners.
Anyone know anything of the Carpenters Clubs operating in Liverpool shipyards mid 19thC? (Nothing to do with Karen & Richard)
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