Mapping Memory on the Liverpool Waterfront - 1950s - 1970s 

Loved this.Back in the eighties I was a nursing sister with the National Dock Labour Board and worked in the medical centers at Hornby ,Huskison and Timber Docks. I loved it.The Dock workers always treated the nurses with respect.No one could compete with their sense of humour. Sadly I was made redundant as the number of Dock workers declined. Soon after I left Liverpool for Portugal where I have lived ever since , your film made me very homesick.

Such a beautiful and emotional history lesson of Some of Liverpool’s past, and to hear the personal stories from the mouths of the Scousers that actually lived through those ever changing times....and as a 75yr old Scouser myself I found the tributes really emotional, and it all made me feel so Proud of my Great City......Thank you.

My old school friends departed father (00:56) is on this film clip, near the beginning along with her uncle. What a fantastic memory. xxx. RIP Alan

Liverpool is an amazing city and it is full of the ghosts of the past. I love it.

Ive learned more by listening to the stories told by the older people in my neighborhood, than I ever learned at school.

Living up in Scotland the norm is to head to Edinburgh/Glasgow, nope drive to Liverpool every time city is amazing....👍

Great film, thanks.

The lady speaking about working in the wholesale jewellers on Paradise Street brought back memories of going to the Nautical Catering College and walking across to the NUS on the same street to join.

Thank you for making this wonderful video of The old and the new Liverpool. Well done Liverpool you have risen so many times the spirit of the people keeps shining through.

Loved the video & the history 👍🏻

I loved listening to the stories, it's wonderful that these have recorded both visually and verbally. Thanks! Well done

A wonderful city.

I love this city

great video great people lots of history

What a great video! Very interesting!

Brilliant

thanks for this! made my night...

Brought back memories, as an ex merchant seaman sailing out of Liverpool. Ha ha, bananas, after a trip on a fyffes boat, paying of in London came back into Lime Street station with a stem of bananas over my shoulder. Spotted the building were I got my 2nd cooks and bakers certificate

Some of this stuff is lump in the throat stuff.......so many sad memories of happy times.

" You would see 5 or six ships whilst crossing from one side to the other"............. I went on the ferry on 6/6/2017 and counted TWELVE ships on the river including the 38000 ton cruise liner " Prinzendam " moored at the stage and the 105000 ton " my ability" tanker and then the 20000 ton " stena Lagen " went out . People have been writing the Mersey off for years- it still aint happened. Oh by the way whilst I was watching all the ships, they were busy BUILDING the new research ship Sir David Attenborough " in Cammell Lairds. Who would have believed it say 20 yrs ago???

thanks! well done =)

I remember the bus depot. It would be useful to update this with drone footage.

The image at 5:19, when was this taken? Time Team in 2008 filmed the excavation of Chavasse Park for the new billion pound development when they found Liverpools first dock, and the settlement in the photo but there wasn't much left of it during the dig. This image shows how complex it was and how tiny the rooms were.

Ferries are still two story

Like the Liver birds Liverpool exists with one eye looking back whilst the other looks forward.

my dad worked blue star gutted i never took him up on a job offer ;(

So has this city made a come back since the docks finished and the slums were all taken down and replaced with housing that may not look as good as the old buildings but has no damp and mould on the walls........well you knock entire streets down and you destroy entire communities and then rehouse wherever there is a place for them, heartbreaking for all, and then you finish what hitler started by taking down instead of restoring some of the greatest buildings not only in the city centre but all over liverpool. Yet the place still retains this wonderful communal spirit and has lost none of it`s passion for life so to answer the question ??? Yes this city has not only made a come back from all its been through but is now a clean, beautiful and vibrant place to be and visit and im not even a scouser nor am i english, fore i was blessed by a welsh god who sent me to discover the grest city that is liverpool.

What are we looking at @5:25?

‘ Its all gone. Gone . Gone . Gone As we used to know it. “. “ But the memories will remain. That’s important “ Old men have said this since time immemorial. What’s ‘ gone ‘ is their youth ! The geezer in the bowler hat looks like a Magritte surrealist ! What’s Andrew Carnegie doing on the ferry ?

The barmaid is so nice

@ 36:09 the 6 sided clock 1 of only 2 in the world in front oof the Stanley Tobacco warehouse and to the left out of shot the Bramley More Dock Everton FCs proposed site for a new ground.

Terrible loss to destroy the sailors home.!

"In those days Liverpool was full of seamen".....God, at the end of the day Maggie May must have been worn out!

Was born on the Herculaneum Docks area 1950. Great memories.The days of 'real communities' :) Left GB 1976, returned just once. GB not what it used to be!