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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£12.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786940759 | ISBN 10: 1786940752
George Garrett’s autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445654102 | ISBN 10: 1445654105
The main role of the tug is to assist vessels in the river or within the dock system by moving them by pushing or towing. They are also used to tow barges or platforms which have no engines or methods of propulsion. Tugs are designed to be highly man ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781445639864 | ISBN 10: 1445639866
The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years. The famous ships and shipping lines have changed or gone altogether, the means of shipping goods has changed and the numbers of people working in the docks have drastically fallen. With the advent of ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781445604145 | ISBN 10: 1445604140
The Port of Liverpool handles more container trade with the United States than any other port in the UK and now also serves more than 100 other non-EU destinations, from China to Africa and the Middle East, and from Australia to South America. Liverp ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781445604138 | ISBN 10: 1445604132
The Pier Head and landing stages have been places where the people of Liverpool have been able to view, participate in and enjoy many of the major maritime celebrations and events of the last hundred years. It is the city’s equivalent to the Sydney O ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849950114 | ISBN 10: 1849950113
Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa – it is complex, an acquired taste and reckoned to be rather unhealthy. Small chop is the addition of ingredients that make it palatable for European taste. From the unique perspective of working aboard mer ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752449159 | ISBN 10: 075244915x
At one time, Liverpool's landing stage was so busy that ships would be literally queuing in the Mersey to discharge and embark passengers. However, the period from the late 1940s saw both the golden age of Liverpool shipping as well as the declin ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848680586 | ISBN 10: 1848680589
Overshadowing the port of Chester, Liverpool grew in size from the 1800s on sugar and slavery. Expanding over the following two centuries, the port has grown to take over part of the other side of the Mersey, with docks at Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905512379 | ISBN 10: 1905512376
Ken's first book, Dockers and Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press. This early study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Ba ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752442433 | ISBN 10: 0752442430
No one knows when the first sail was raised to propel a boat on the River Mersey, but much speculation abounds. Theoretically, sailing ships could have used this stretch of water in as far back as pre-Roman times, but the oldest proven vessel was tha ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780752423746 | ISBN 10: 0752423746
The many British shipping lines in this book, including among others Brocklebank, Cunard, Blue Funnel, Booth, Elder Dempster, Ellerman & Hall Lines, Lamport & Holt and Cayzer, Irvine, had their origins in Liverpool, once the premier port in the Unite ... more
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