Tsar, I found something last night I'd never noticed before, some remains of the overhead supports
here in the wall opposite the Baltic Fleet. There appear to be quite a lot along there.
I'm kicking myself for not noticing as I was in the Baltic a couple of years ago with some old mates. (Micro brewery - nice beer or was at the time). Ah well, maybe later in June when I come to collect my Lad I might try and have a closer look.
Also, don't know if anyone has seen the new Sherlock Holmes film, but some of the scenes where shot
here and around Stanley and Clarence dock. I thought I recognised it in the cinema, that lifting bridge on Vauxhall is quite unique.
Some lads have made a short video of the area...
http://www.youtube.com/v/ekPKP74gE28&hl=en_US&fs=1And not so much an old photograph but this shows some of the inside of the Liver Building, the clock mechanism and the board rooms, a must see. It also has some great views from the roof.
http://www.youtube.com/v/01Y6iY7noHY&hl=en_US&fs=1I think my Mum worked there for a short while in the immediate post war era, I know there's some story of my Dad flying a Tiger Moth from Woodvale low around the building when she was working there when he was put in the RAF reserves in '48 or so.
Doubt you could get away with that these days. I've mentioned before on here somewhere in the past, but some of my distant ancestors on my Dads side where Master Plasterers and did a lot of the interior of the Liver. as well as the IOM Parliament building. One of my sisters researched it in the records office a few years ago and seems to have confirmed it all.