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

This is a film rooted in a particular place and time - the south-central Liverpool waterfront from to the 1950s to the 1970s. It is also about Liverpool in the twenty-first century. A documentary exploring the lives and memories of people who lived and worked on Liverpool's central waterfront and the changes they have witnessed.
A film by Tim Brunsden and Sam Meech.
Created as part of the Mapping Memory research project. This film was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through its Beyond Text research programme.
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[@nickymoran654]

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.

[@Nansen1981]

Thanks for this. My old dad nearly lost his leg dredging in Albert dock. 😢😢😢

[@georgecmarshall]

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

[@IcelanderUSer]

And ironically when these same older people tell you to go to school you should listen and go to school. People learn a great deal directly from other people. Thing is, we don’t know enough people to learn all there is to learn and thus must go to school. It shows you’ve committed to something and finished it. It shows you were capable of learning and your grades will reflect that. It’s not a perfect system nor the best way to learn some subjects, but it is what it is. You can’t go through life thinking you know best without ever admitting to yourself that you don’t know best. We must find mentors in life and mentors those that want to learn. The world changed and Liverpool and Rotterdam have changed with it. It wasn’t always pretty and lots of people may have been left behind.

[@frankhornby6873]

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.

[@davetubervid]

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

[@mrlister2000]

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

[@gillianmason4198]

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.

[@PJL27-02]

Loved the video & the history 👍🏻

[@flippop101]

Great film, thanks.

[@aq9714]

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

[@alanward4506]

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.

[@mudskipper0075]

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

[@georgecmarshall]

What a great video! Very interesting!

[@28dalu]

great video great people lots of history

[@frankthomas4253]

thanks for this! made my night...

[@josephmckenna3977]

Brilliant

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

I love this city

[@frankgall2537]

A wonderful city.

[@pip393]

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

[@minello7]

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

[@mrlister2000]

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.

[@thomasfoster1899]

Fond meories of the city an dock rd .ynwa

[@clarksonbarry]

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

[@stechriswillgil3686]

‘ 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 ?

[@PaulBaird]

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

[@TheLastSongbird124]

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!

[@liverbird4553]

You've missed so much by leaving 😊 you x pat's always have a moan 😅

[@thesavagechicken]

thanks! well done =)

[@scabbycatcat4202]

" 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???

[@tonyshortland8812]

I understand the tonage dimming in and out of Merseyside, is higher now than ever before. But due to containerisation, it's almost, Labour free

[@aKaMizK]

What are we looking at @5:25?

[@barberman5822]

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.

[@studio-flash]

There is no such thing as a god...man made myths...

[@johncodling9805]

@ 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.

[@studio-flash]

Ferries are still two story

[@ianofliverpool7701]

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

[@SteezeMcQueen]

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

[@juliechristophe9847]

The barmaid is so nice

[@lordturf3518]

Terrible loss to destroy the sailors home.!