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"Do
you have any information of HMS Mersey which was the Great Northern
hospital taken over by the navy. It was base for T 124X Rating.
I was there in 1940 in transit to the ACM Carnarvon Castle. I was
wondering if any of my old shipmates are still around. It would
be nice to here from them if they are."听听
Frank Woods
"I
am trying to find a song, I think it was called听'Down on Scottie
Road', but I don't know who sung it. Can anyone help?"
"Whatever happend to the sailing ship听'Spirit of Merseyside'
(a听replica of a Mersey Pilot Boat)?听听It was built听at Mann Island听
with the help of youth opportunities to take Liverpool children
on outward bound programs or similar.
All
this took place about 15 years past听or more. I think there was quite
a bit of public subscription after one of the directors of the听听
Alexandra听Towing Company听听started the ball rolling听with his subscription.
It was doing the same programs as听the sailship听Manchester Challenge.
I hope
I have got the facts right my memory is fading over the years."听听
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"I
use to live in Cambridge Street Wavertree. I must have been four,
perhaps five, that would be 1937. I was the only one on the street,
and looking up in a north easterly direction I saw an air ship coming
towards me and over. Often I have thought about that air ship and
wondered whose it was."
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Lived at 79 Moss Grove as a child .When I was home from boarding
school (the Bluecoat), we would go to Sefton Park which was
only a few blocks away, and my parents would hire a rowing boat
for the afternoon. There was also a glass house that plants
were grown in called the Palm House. Around Sefton Park there
were some huge houses. During the war Sefton Park was filled
with air-raid shelters. We used to play in them as kids . Most
of them were underground. We were playing one day running from
one shelter to another and throwing debris and one of the bricks
hit me in the head and I had to go to Sefton general hospital
to have stitches. I still have the scar on my head. Later the
Bertrum Mills circus would use Sefton Park for their shows.
I can still see the pathways that we as kids would walk down
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| "My
ancestors, the Fazakerleys, came from the Liverpool area (and
Maghull & Ormskirk) to the USA in the 1840's. This little branch
now resides in South Carolina. The last "e" in our name was
dropped somewhere between New York and Memphis, Tennessee via
Chicago." |
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"I
remember going to The Regent which was a huge cinema in Old
Swan. Us kids were all members of the ABC Minors club and we
would go there on Saturday morning with our glow in the dark
ABC Minors badge. 10 am I think it started and there would be
loads of short films which were always 'to be continued'. There
would be Batman in black and white sort of stuff, also cartoons,
the Pathe news of course and sometimes live entertainment, it
was pretty good value....oh we used to buy and suck noisily
a frozen juice bar called an 'Ice Pole'..'.ting a linga ling
ice pole' went the cinema ad of course we made up our own more
saucy version of that."
"I
went to Ye Crack and found it pretty much unchanged, do you
know much about this pub hidden away off Hope St...as art students
in the seventies we piled in there at lunchtime but I don't
know much more about it than that. Thanks"
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"I
sat here with a big lump in my throat as I look at the pictures
of Liverpool and remember Sefton Park riding on the rowing boats
and playing in the sand horse trail that went around it as a
small child I spent a lot of time there.
I miss riding on the ferry which brings back a lot of memories
as my husband lived in Brombrough and his mother worked at the
flea market in Birkenhead.
I was last there in 1999 and found so many great changes had
taken place over the years. My old home off Lodge lane was gone
and new house had been built I had tears in my eyes and thought
there goes my memories." |
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"I
am writing to see if you can tell me why the "Five Lamps" at
Waterloo is called "Five Lamps".
I know that it is memorium for local people killed during the
war, but my Mum always wanted to know the significance of the
"Five Lamps." |
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