The Mersey Ferries in the 1970s
They’ve just shown the opening clip of the Liver Birds on BBC2, with its picture of the back of the Mersey Ferry, Mountwood, which is still going, but after being renamed Royal Iris of the Mersey. In three years time, I will have known those boats for sixty years.
Incidentally, I don’t remember much of the first series or two of the Liver Birds, as C and I didn’t have a television until about 1973, although we had seen the odd episode at our parents respective houses. I think the first series we really saw was about 1975, when Elizabeth Estensen joined the show.
The Anonymous Widower 
I think we have been watching the same TV shows this evening. For once there w reasonable programmes on a Saturday evening.
Comment by Liz P | April 21, 2012 |
I suppose with your Liverpool connections, that bit would have touched a nerve.
Do you know anybody who went to see the giants?
Comment by AnonW | April 22, 2012 |
I dont know anyone who has been to see them; I would have loved to have gone myself but such huge crowds and mobility scooters are not a good mix.
Comment by liz | April 22, 2012 |
Unless you use the Syrian accessory. An AK-47 mounted on the front.
Comment by AnonW | April 22, 2012 |
Having once had to convince a security guard that the thing with wires coming out of it was a TENs machine not a suicide bomb, I prefer not to try that option. 🙂
Comment by liz | April 22, 2012 |
I remember many years there was a seed potato crisis in England. It was also at a time of high IRA activity and all bags were being hand searched. This City gent complete with bowler hat was going through security at Edinburgh airport and put about five kilos of best quality Scottish seed potatoes on the counter to be searched. There were laughs all round, when the heavy bag was emptied. The IRA missed that trick! I don’t think it would work now!
Comment by AnonW | April 22, 2012 |