There’s a session of Sea Shanties at the Baltic Fleet pub tonight . . here’s a more professional video with Michael Portillo.
http://www.liverpoolseashanty.co.uk/
Chance to saunter around the city – shopping (Viv) and then Museum’ing (Steve). This weekend sees an event – the Vintage on the Dock. Lots of eateries, 50′s music with dancers jitterbugging and a collection of motors
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The fairly new, Museum of Liverpool was quite superb; lively, informative and exciting to walk around. Full of history, music, old tram cars . . something for everyone! You could easily spend a whole day in here. It also gave a good vantage point to take more aerial photos …
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This should be a shot of the Liver building, Cunard building etc but I only see the Cunard channel we chugged thru . . it felt a bit other-worldly.
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I enjoyed all the models – this one spoke to you if you touched different bits! I just happened to be walking out of the building when the latest batch of narrowboaters were making their passage through the Link.
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Here’s another aerial view – looking back over towards Albert dock
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These chaps seem to have a lot of history here
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This is the Mann Island lock – operated by the CRT staff – I noted that it had double exit gates to cope with higher levels of tide from either side.
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Here comes Hazelberry Gem. The gates on the left are the entry/exit gates onto the Mersey.
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A Peter Blake inspired paint job for one of the Mersey ferries, nice! Could do this to Adagio?
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Yes, Liverpool has one of these (£9 each for 10 mins)
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An on/off damp day but lots of people about, some even getting into costume for the vintage weekend. Time for afternoon tea – here’s Salthouse dock, with our wee ship in the middle distance. I think the yellow pennant is pointing to it.
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We were looking at ship movements online and noticed that the Balmoral was due in at 2030, so we popped over to see the old girl come in. She was doing a run out to Anglesey.
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