Panama Canal Expansion Time Lapse 2011-2016. 5 years work in 2.5 minutes. Link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCQR8yt26w
Isn't progress wonderful?
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Dan
For any Old Dockers
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EdMcDonald
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[quote="Dan"]Expansion of the Panama Canal (2016).
Panama Canal Expansion Time Lapse 2011-2016. 5 years work in 2.5 minutes. Link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCQR8yt26w
Isn't progress wonderful?
Regards
Dancuote]
Not long returned from the Panama Canal cruise. San Diego to Maimi . Pretty impressive going through the locks and looking at the ship in front of you, which is about sixty feet higher than you. Cruise line served free champagne going through the locks. Can't remember going out the other side.
Panama Canal Expansion Time Lapse 2011-2016. 5 years work in 2.5 minutes. Link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCQR8yt26w
Isn't progress wonderful?
Regards
Dancuote]
Not long returned from the Panama Canal cruise. San Diego to Maimi . Pretty impressive going through the locks and looking at the ship in front of you, which is about sixty feet higher than you. Cruise line served free champagne going through the locks. Can't remember going out the other side.
Home of the "Edmonton Oilers" Future Stanley Cup Champions. 
A long way from Duncan B.C.
A long way from Duncan B.C.
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Dan
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1970s Knowsley Road.
I came across this on Angelcake's twitter feed.
The first comment was from Gerard Garside (brothers Paul and Damian), more cousins, who lived at 292 Knowsley Road from 1946 to 1969. Mother and father Anne and Robert (known as Tiny).Uncle Bob was over 6 foot tall - them dockers and their nicknames- used to drink in the Pacific.
Gerard is on a couple of Tommy Howard's (Lancs 20) photos. I've downloaded most of Tommy's pictures into a folder- great photos of Bootle.
Regards
Dan
I came across this on Angelcake's twitter feed.
The first comment was from Gerard Garside (brothers Paul and Damian), more cousins, who lived at 292 Knowsley Road from 1946 to 1969. Mother and father Anne and Robert (known as Tiny).Uncle Bob was over 6 foot tall - them dockers and their nicknames- used to drink in the Pacific.
Gerard is on a couple of Tommy Howard's (Lancs 20) photos. I've downloaded most of Tommy's pictures into a folder- great photos of Bootle.
Regards
Dan
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Looks like the Carinthia (Cunard) to me, had a couple of uncles that worked on it in the 60s.JJC.Dan wrote:The card says Liner but it looks like the Isle of Man ferry to me.
Woodside Birkenhead.
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Dan
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I remember getting on the ferry at the pierhead with me mates cross over the water hide in the toilets birkenhead side an back the pieread couple of trips an the crew men would say right next time we dock at the the pierhead off yeh get we never paid on the liverpool end only over the water( good day out)
Davey Rowlands Bootle
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Dan
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Been looking at the 1881 Bootle Docks post on June 22 2014 from Tommy Howard (Lancs 20) .
I've enlarged, lightened and coloured them to identify the detail.
Seaforth Sands to lock gate of the Canada Dock, covering the Alexandra, Langton, Brocklebank (in front of Carrier North and Carrier) and part of the Canada.
The land behind the dock covers Seaforth, Crosby, Thornton, Litherland, Netherton, Orrell, Aintree and the heart of Bootle.
The later, detailed, photos pick out some of the major landmarks in the painting.
View of a little further south centred on the Brocklebank and Carrier Docks with central Bootle more visible.
The three long rectangular sheds just beyond the docks are the railway goods terminals that backed onto Church Street, adjacent to St Mary's Church.
Visible in the upper mid section are the Linacre gasometers, and to their right the hook in the canal as it leaves Bootle and heads to Litherland.
Just before the hook is where the Strand/Stanley Road Bridge stands today.
The dockside land shown approximately covers what would become Knowsley Road to Miller's Bridge/Balliol Road
Detail from the second photo showing Linacre Gas Works and the canal.
Detail showing Coffee House Bridge, above running from upper right to mid left is the Liverpool - Southport rail line.
I'll post a bit more later.
Regards
Dan
I've enlarged, lightened and coloured them to identify the detail.
Seaforth Sands to lock gate of the Canada Dock, covering the Alexandra, Langton, Brocklebank (in front of Carrier North and Carrier) and part of the Canada.
The land behind the dock covers Seaforth, Crosby, Thornton, Litherland, Netherton, Orrell, Aintree and the heart of Bootle.
The later, detailed, photos pick out some of the major landmarks in the painting.
View of a little further south centred on the Brocklebank and Carrier Docks with central Bootle more visible.
The three long rectangular sheds just beyond the docks are the railway goods terminals that backed onto Church Street, adjacent to St Mary's Church.
Visible in the upper mid section are the Linacre gasometers, and to their right the hook in the canal as it leaves Bootle and heads to Litherland.
Just before the hook is where the Strand/Stanley Road Bridge stands today.
The dockside land shown approximately covers what would become Knowsley Road to Miller's Bridge/Balliol Road
Detail from the second photo showing Linacre Gas Works and the canal.
Detail showing Coffee House Bridge, above running from upper right to mid left is the Liverpool - Southport rail line.
I'll post a bit more later.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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Cheers Davey, been going cross-eyed looking at the pictures then Ordinance Survey maps and back again.
Above is a detail from the left side of the 1st photo, showing the area beyond Seaforth Sands in 1881.
The curved railway line, running from the docks, is the Fazakerley/North Mersey branch line.
The train cutting across the picture is the Southport - Liverpool train.
The church is St Philip's, named in honour Philip, The Earl of Sefton , who opened the church.
The canal will be in the picture somewhere. There's a line of three buildings then two buildings that may have stood on the canal bank.
The perspectives may be altered as it's a painting rather than a map.
No sign of the KFC or The Wispa.
Above photo,lots of detail showing the Brocklebank with the Carrier North and Carrier Docks (the timber docks).
Millers Bridge and Balliol Road from mid left to upper right.
The Town Hall with the Liverpool bound train in front. Balliol baths not yet built.
There is a church to the upper right on the river side of King's Road, but I'm not sure what it was called.
Again, somewhere in amongst the buildings, the canal would be running between the docks and the Town Hall.
Regards
Dan
Above is a detail from the left side of the 1st photo, showing the area beyond Seaforth Sands in 1881.
The curved railway line, running from the docks, is the Fazakerley/North Mersey branch line.
The train cutting across the picture is the Southport - Liverpool train.
The church is St Philip's, named in honour Philip, The Earl of Sefton , who opened the church.
The canal will be in the picture somewhere. There's a line of three buildings then two buildings that may have stood on the canal bank.
The perspectives may be altered as it's a painting rather than a map.
No sign of the KFC or The Wispa.
Above photo,lots of detail showing the Brocklebank with the Carrier North and Carrier Docks (the timber docks).
Millers Bridge and Balliol Road from mid left to upper right.
The Town Hall with the Liverpool bound train in front. Balliol baths not yet built.
There is a church to the upper right on the river side of King's Road, but I'm not sure what it was called.
Again, somewhere in amongst the buildings, the canal would be running between the docks and the Town Hall.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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Main features, St Mary's Church and Linacre Gas Works.
The Liverpool - Southport railway line cuts through the heart of the photo.
The field adjacent to St Mary's, bordered by the Strand Promenade and Irlam Lane/Road, is the original ground of Bootle Cricket Club. A small crowd is on the field.
Part of the area is now covered by the old Bootle Fire Station.
Regards
Dan
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Dan
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The road running from slightly upper mid right to the centre of the photo at Rimrose Road would be Marsh Lane.
Sandfield Park, the home ground of White Star Wanderers, was sited half way along Marsh Lane.
The Wanderers had major financial backing but never gained mass appeal ,though in the mid-1890s the Bootle Times would report them as being Bootle's premier football club. In 1895, a game against Birkenhead Locos drew a crowd of about 300 on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Detail of the Marsh Lane area,
Regards
Dan