Picture of The Day June 2010

[scouse smurf]

Let's hope we get lots more sunny pics this month :)

[Oudeis]

Light rain here. It looks as if I live in a jungle clearing, can't wait till my grass 'kilt' comes back from the cleaners. :)

[lindylou]

'fraid I am out of photos for the time being.

[pablo42]

'fraid I am out of photos for the time being.

Me too. I took me camrea with me on Sunday night too. Town was buzzing, but far too many drunks.

[Ged]

Tuesday 1st June 2010.

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[pablo42]

Nice one Ged.

[Ronijayne]

Ooops, I am still downloading mine, will wait until tomorrow to pop it up. It is of the 1885 ship Wavertree, a great old Cape Horner. Southampton made for a Liverpool company who owned her. She was dis-masted in a Cape Horn storm in 1910 and ended up as a barge in Buenos Aires. Some guy found her poor old body (still working as a barge I think) in 1966 and brought her to NYC, she was helped into the harbour by a sister ship, the Allerton. She sits at Southstreet Seaport and although they have re-masted her she needs a lot of work on her 'tween' area and general HELP!!!! They got a grant for 4 MILLION DOLLARS to restore her, Uni of Wisconsin are working on parts and various other ship restoration places. When she is done she will be part of the Southstreet Seaport Museum walk again and we can go on board once again. At last she can hold her head up high after being abandoned and left to die in a foreign land!!!. YAY

[Ronijayne]

JUNE 2, 2010
Here she is. Can't wait for the restoration to be complete. You can see it says WAVERTREE in white on the black stripe.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Southstreet%20Seaport%20May%2031%202010/DSC03724-1.jpg

[Ronijayne]

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Wavertree was built at Southampton, England in 1885 for R.W. Leyland & Company of Liverpool, one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. Today, she is the largest afloat. Wavertree was first employed to carry jute, used in making rope and burlap bags, between eastern India (now Bangladesh) and ... See MoreScotland. When less then two years old she entered the tramp trades, taking cargoes anywhere in the world she could find them. After sailing for a quarter century, she limped into the Falkland Islands in December 1910, having been dismasted off Cape Horn. Rather then re-rigging her, her owners sold her for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. She was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947, and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.

[scouse smurf]

Excellent pic, Roni. Ya didn't put a date on it though :p

[lindylou]

Thanks Ronijayne.

[gregs dad]

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The Salthouse Dock looking busy it must be summer

[George]

The Salthouse Dock looking busy it must be summer

Yer modern day Gippo,oh to have the money to buy a canal boat,mut be great taveling up and down the county via the canal.

[Ronijayne]

Excellent pic, Roni. Ya didn't put a date on it though :p

Oh sorry Smurfy, June 2.

[Ronijayne]

Yer modern day Gippo,oh to have the money to buy a canal boat,mut be great taveling up and down the county via the canal.

Friend of mine from the next street, Cpperfield Street, Dingle has one and he and his wife travel up an down UK the whole year. He send me the most amazing piics.

[gregs dad]

I have noticed on my frequent visits to canals the wives or girl friends do all the hard work, like opening lock gates, while the male just steers the boat

[scouse smurf]

I so wanna say it, but I'd get lynched !!!

[Ronijayne]

I have noticed on my frequent visits to canals the wives or girl friends do all the hard work, like opening lock gates, while the male just steers the boat

Really! I am going to ask Matt if he does. Cheek

[ChrisGeorge]

June 4, 2010

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Childwall Cross

[ChrisGeorge]

June 5, 2010

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Ancient Monks' Well, Wavertree

[Spike]

Nice pics Chris.

[Kev]

thanks Chris, how old is the old monks well pic?

[pablo42]

A rare picture of Pablo out with his little mate:

Ha, i'm better looking by far..

[Ronijayne]

Is that really the pic of the day I scrolled to see or will there be another?

[kevin]

Roni,
Picture of the day comes under the category of 'Photography Fun'.
However, I've deleted my contribution and will now take myself off to the naughty step.
Have a nice day.
Kevin

[scouse smurf]

What did I miss ???

[Lil V]

JUNE 6TH.



Is that really the pic of the day I scrolled to see or will there be another?

Hopefully this may be considered more on-topic and interesting to many members? This photo, taken yesterday, shows the Chinese Pavilions at the Garden Festival Site, part of which is currently in the process of being refurbished.

[Ronijayne]

What did I miss ???

Kevin had a photo of a monster holding a child saying it was Pabs and his 'little mate' I was asking if it was the real photo of the day. I did not mean to be rude, it was an honest question. I was going to put one up but did not know if I could as it is one per day!! That's all

Roni

[Ronijayne]

Hopefully this may be considered more on-topic and interesting to many members? This photo, taken yesterday, shows the Chinese Pavilions at the Garden Festival Site, part of which is currently in the process of being refurbished.



I love it

[Lil V]

Kevin had a photo of a monster holding a child saying it was Pabs and his 'little mate' I was asking if it was the real photo of the day. I did not mean to be rude, it was an honest question. I was going to put one up but did not know if I could as it is one per day!! That's all

Roni

Sorry, Roni - didn't mean to butt in! I'll delete mine if you like...

[Ronijayne]

Roni,
Picture of the day comes under the category of 'Photography Fun'.
However, I've deleted my contribution and will now take myself off to the naughty step.
Have a nice day.
Kevin

I will have a nice day, thank you.

[kevin]

Lil - we're only allowed one 'toys out of pram' and I beat you to it. Leave your picture were it is.

[Ronijayne]

Sorry, Roni - didn't mean to butt in! I'll delete mine if you like...

Oh Lord no Lil, I love your pic. x DO NOT DELETE. I was just wondering if the gag pic was the real one of the day. It was just a question.

Jeez, this has gone to hell already. Sorry Smurfy

[Bob Edwards]

Thought I'd add this from todays Parade

7th June.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii259/Digitech1/Liverpool%20Lord%20mayors%20Pageant/LordMayorsPageant51.jpg

[Ronijayne]

Thought I'd add this from todays Parade

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii259/Digitech1/Liverpool%20Lord%20mayors%20Pageant/LordMayorsPageant51.jpg

Cool. Love the fruit and cheese thingy

[kevin]

I will have a nice day, thank you.

You're very welcome.
Nothing going to hell - it was 2:00pm here and nobody had posted a pic so I put a gag one up. Didn't mean to stop anyone else posting so I took it down again.

I do feel like you're not allowed to have fun here anymore, unless you're posting on football threads. Seems to be de rigeur there. There's the joke thread but what if you just want to raise a smile and not actually tell a joke?

Not looking for a debate or an argument - peace and love to everyone - just expressing how I feel. I very much appreciate what Kev does, and action was needed, but some of the spark has gone.

[Ronijayne]

You're very welcome.
Nothing going to hell - it was 2:00pm here and nobody had posted a pic so I put a gag one up. Didn't mean to stop anyone else posting so I took it down again.

I do feel like you're not allowed to have fun here anymore, unless you're posting on football threads. Seems to be de rigeur there. There's the joke thread but what if you just want to raise a smile and not actually tell a joke?

Not looking for a debate or an argument - peace and love to everyone - just expressing how I feel. I very much appreciate what Kev does, and action was needed, but some of the spark has gone.

Veronica has left this conversation.

[scouse smurf]

Errr, we've already had our photo of the day. Chris George posted it ages ago lol

Nice pic though, Bob :)

[scouse smurf]

Roni & Kevin, you've just had a slight mis-understanding. Now shake hands and forget it :)

[gregs dad]

Dates,dates,dates P O D

[scouse smurf]

GD, we managed to get 3 different posters for yesterday, but Chris was first. I would guess the 6th is all urs, if ya wanna post one :)

[gregs dad]

No Smurf I was just wandering where we are up to thanks.

[Ged]

June 8th will be the next one by my reckoning then? One photo per day - doesn't it have to be your own???

[ChrisGeorge]

thanks Chris, how old is the old monks well pic?

Hi Kev

The Wavertree Monks' Well photograph was taken by me in the Sixties, when I took a number of black and white photographs of local historical sites. They vary in quality but I like this one because it has the two Liverpool lads in the photograph one with the mucky face and the other evidently picking his nose. I'll be posting more in coming days. I think the square b & w pics were taken with a Kodak Brownie camera that I acquired about 1964. I later graduated to a Russian Zenith 35 mm and then a Pentax 35 mm that I bought second hand at a shop on Manchester Street by the Mersey Tunnel entrance while I was working as a temporary clerk for Liverpool corporation in 1967. I have a number of color slides that I took with those latter two cameras that will need to be converted to jpegs to post.

All the best

Chris

[scouse smurf]

June 8th will be the next one by my reckoning then? One photo per day - doesn't it have to be your own???

Think the rules have slackened a wee bit this year. Supposed to be only one posted per day, so I'm assume later ones on the same day don't count... as for being ur own, preferably but I guess the odd one from our overseas cousins would be ok as long as they've got permission. But I don't make the rules, so not for me to say really :)

[Ronijayne]

I have noticed on my frequent visits to canals the wives or girl friends do all the hard work, like opening lock gates, while the male just steers the boat

I asked Matt yesterday. It really annoys him that this does indeed happen, like the woman can't steer the boat. :PDT_Xtremez_12: He said it annoys him to see woman and girls of all ages at those heavy locks when there is at man sitting at the steering wheel. He recons this is why many of them are so fat!!! He does his and his wife steers, he said it is his exercise!

[Ronijayne]

June 8th will be the next one by my reckoning then? One photo per day - doesn't it have to be your own???

I took the ones of the Liverpool ship Wavertree in South Street Seaport the afternoon before I put it up here.

[ChrisGeorge]

7 June 2010

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Old Schoolhouse, Woolton, Liverpool

[gregs dad]

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Looking up Skelhorne Street off Lime Street

[Kev]

Hi Kev

The Wavertree Monks' Well photograph was taken by me in the Sixties, when I took a number of black and white photographs of local historical sites. They vary in quality but I like this one because it has the two Liverpool lads in the photograph one with the mucky face and the other evidently picking his nose. I'll be posting more in coming days. I think the square b & w pics were taken with a Kodak Brownie camera that I acquired about 1964. I later graduated to a Russian Zenith 35 mm and then a Pentax 35 mm that I bought second hand at a shop on Manchester Street by the Mersey Tunnel entrance while I was working as a temporary clerk for Liverpool corporation in 1967. I have a number of color slides that I took with those latter two cameras that will need to be converted to jpegs to post.

All the best

Chris

Fantastic Chris :)

Cheers,

Kev

[Ged]

Wednesday June 9th 2010.

Andrew Street off County Road getting into the World Cup swing of things.


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[lindylou]

Tourist busses

[Oudeis]

Tourists busses

...in front of ?

Do, do. Lindylou
give we strangers one wee clue :)

[Ged]

The Port of Liverpool Buildings which were formerly the HQ of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

[Oudeis]

Tres swanky.

[lindylou]

:)

[lindylou]

Motorbikes, Pierhead.

[atmosferik]

How do you upload images you have taken?!

I've tried, but on the 'Insert Images' icon you can only attatch images on the web. Is this right or am I missing something?

[Ronijayne]

How do you upload images you have taken?!

I've tried, but on the 'Insert Images' icon you can only attatch images on the web. Is this right or am I missing something?


Drop them in something like 'photobucket' then it is simple or you do the IMG thingy

[lindylou]

dockside apartments

[Norm NZ]

Nice pic Lindy,! Pity about the wind turbines, I think they must spoil the area for the residents,

[gregs dad]

13TH June sunday Sorry
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Mill Park lake a popular fishing spot on Tower Hill,Kirkby

[scouse smurf]

Excellent pic, GD. Very unlike u to miss the date off though ;)

[az_gila]

How do you upload images you have taken?!

I've tried, but on the 'Insert Images' icon you can only attatch images on the web. Is this right or am I missing something?

If you are replying, hit the "Go Advanced" selection and then hit the "Manage Attachments" button.
Then look for the hard to find "Add Files" button in the top right....:)

Then you can upload pictures directly from your computer and Yo stores them for you.

[ChrisGeorge]

June 14, 2010

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[lindylou]

Smart pic :PDT11

[naked lilac]

Very lovely indeed Chris George..

[lindylou]

lots of passengers boarding the ferry

[scouse smurf]

Cool pic, Lindy.

What are the chimney things for ?

[gregs dad]

The pier moves up and down on them according to the tide

[az_gila]

The pier moves up and down on them according to the tide

I guess the old Pier Head was just floating and held in place by the bridges hinged at both ends.

What was the story behind the sinking of the original Pier Head?

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[empeebee]

June 16th 2010

[empeebee]

If you are replying, hit the "Go Advanced" selection and then hit the "Manage Attachments" button.
Then look for the hard to find "Add Files" button in the top right....:)

Then you can upload pictures directly from your computer and Yo stores them for you.

I always seem to end up with thumbnails (see above, 16th June), which works OK. But how does one post a full size photo directly?

[lindylou]

Great pic Empeebee, I'll pm you about posting images.

[Ged]

Great pics the last couple of days. :handclap:

[az_gila]

Great pic Empeebee, I'll pm you about posting images.

Lindylou... please post here instead of a PM so we can all find out....:)

[lindylou]

re posting pics

It is better if you resize your pics first.
Probably practice a trial run first with some duplicated copies - you don't want to lose anything by making a mistake !!

Join a photo host - just Google 'photo hosts' and a list will come up). I use Photobucket which I find easy.

In Photobucket, click on 'upload images' and then 'Browse' - your documents will come up. Select the image you want and click on 'Upload'
Wait a second and it will upload into Photobucket.

If you have a lot of pics you can use the 'BULK Upload' facilty (this takes a few moments to activate) you then follow instructions to upload multiple pics.
When you have all you required photos, you can then resize them smaller.
Click on an image to bring it up on screen.
Click on 'resize' (options are above the image)
Click on 'message Board' size.
wait a second for the picture to resize, then you can save it back to a new folder in your docs. (a seperate folder so you will know the resized pics from the others). Right click on the image and 'save as' (save in where ever you want it to go in your docs).

To post the pics on the forum, copy the image code at the bottom of the pic, then paste it onto a reply. (right click on the image code, select 'copy' then go back to forum and in a reply click 'paste' - then you submit the post. the pic should come up ok ).



I think that's more or less it ! :)

[Ged]

Click this. http://imageshack.us/

Click browse and when you've found the pic you want from your computer, click upload now. The size is already set for this forum.

It'll appear as a thumbnail on the left when loaded. Copy and paste the jargon from the 4th row down under the pic into your message.

[az_gila]

Click this. http://imageshack.us/

Click browse and when you've found the pic you want from your computer, click upload now. The size is already set for this forum.

It'll appear as a thumbnail on the left when loaded. Copy and paste the jargon from the 4th row down under the pic into your message.

A free www.photobucket.com (http://www.photobucket.com) account also works - some details here -

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?34962-In-line-image-testing..&p=282199&viewfull=1#post282199

[gregs dad]

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The old spring in St James Gardens. Discovered by quarry workers in 1773 and is still flowing today
The tablet over it reads;
Christian Reader, view me,an emblem of true charity.
Who freely,what I have bestow,Though neither heard nor see to fliow
And I have full returns from heaven for every cup of water given.

[lindylou]

two pics for the price of one today - busy Pierhead cafe.

[ChrisGeorge]

Very fine, Lindy! :handclap:

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Norm NZ]

My thanks too Lindy, that area is looking so good!

[lindylou]

Superlambs surveying the Strand.

[wsteve55]

They look great,Lindy,but did you get any pic's of "Coopers" being demolished?

[lindylou]

They look great,Lindy,but did you get any pic's of "Coopers" being demolished?

No, I didn't think to take a photo :rolleyes:

[Ronijayne]

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The old spring in St James Gardens. Discovered by quarry workers in 1773 and is still flowing today
The tablet over it reads;
Christian Reader, view me,an emblem of true charity.
Who freely,what I have bestow,Though neither heard nor see to fliow
And I have full returns from heaven for every cup of water given.

WOW! Love it. I need to find out more about this and visit it next time I am home. Thanks

[lindylou]

ventilation tower

[dazza]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4706206164_f85977cf67_b.jpg
The old spring in St James Gardens. Discovered by quarry workers in 1773 and is still flowing today
The tablet over it reads;
Christian Reader, view me,an emblem of true charity.
Who freely,what I have bestow,Though neither heard nor see to fliow
And I have full returns from heaven for every cup of water given.

Great image Joe. :handclap:

St James' Mount shown on the 1848 os map [LRO] attached. The 'well' can be seen just left of the Huskisson Memorial. It was stone quarry at first, but in "1767, in order to provide work for an unusually large number of unemployed, the Corporation of Liverpool laid out the western side of the site as an ornamental garden known as the Mount or Mount Gardens" [quoted from LRO online cat. 352 CEM/3]

Stone supplies to rest of the quarry were exhausted by 1825, and a decision was made to turn it into a privately run cemetery - which offered an alternative to the now overcrowded church cemeteries. The cemetery was consecrated on 13th Jan 1829. It was still some years before the big municipal cemeteries like Toxeth Park opened.

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[Ged]

Monday 21st June 2010.

The Royal Liver building from a different perspective.


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[ChrisGeorge]

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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[lindylou]

Good picture Chris .

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks, Lindy.

C

[lindylou]

Come on England !

Anfield shop.

[ChrisGeorge]

Great pic, Lindy! Come on the lads! :PDT11

[gregs dad]

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"Oh I do like to be beside the seaside" even without the water, Enjoying the sun on Parkgate Parade

[Ged]

Such vibrant blues there Joe.

[lindylou]

Great picture :)

[ChrisGeorge]

Excellent photograph, Joe. You've really captured the place and brought back some memories for me.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Norm NZ]

Loved the pics Joe! looks a lot better than these I took in 1982.

[ChrisGeorge]

June 25, 2010

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Detail, stained glass window, Calderstones School (former Quarry Bank High School), Allerton.

[lindylou]

Lovely picture Chris.

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks, Lindy.

Cheers

Chris http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3592488146_458e76994f_o.gif

[gregs dad]

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"In an englsh country garden"

[lindylou]

hee,hee, nice pic :) :)

[scouse smurf]

I didn't even notice the dog water feature the first time I looked at it !!!

[Ronijayne]

June 27th

Don't remember when I took this. I like the way the red life thingy stands out. I could sharpen it as it was early morning mist I think but I do not alter my pics at all, I want them to be the colours I saw. Same with my beach pics. For me I like my pics natural.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Liverpool/LiverBuildingfromthedock-1.jpg

[Ged]

Same for me regarding touching up pics Roni though some do suit it. That is now a view no more by the way - thanks to those gross black granite bland apartments going up.

[naked lilac]

That was a lovely picture Ronnie.. What gross black granite bland apartments Ged????

[Ronijayne]

Same for me regarding touching up pics Roni though some do suit it. That is now a view no more by the way - thanks to those gross black granite bland apartments going up.

Oh no. Sorry to hear this view has gone. I took a few pics there that day. I loved the lamp post and that whole 'look' I took quite a few pics of Matthew Street and the Grapes that week too. The fireplace inside the Grapes also. Good memories for me

Yes, some photos do suit it but I want to remember what I actually saw and how it was. For me the mist and greyness was part of it

[Ged]

Monday 28th June 2010.

The new Lime Street railway station facade (or old, brought back to life)


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[Ronijayne]

I like it

[Ronijayne]

I like this very much

[Ronijayne]

Tusday June 29th

Cavern, Matthew Street
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[A.D.W]

Wednesday 30th June 2010.

Waiting for a lift!


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[lindylou]

ha,ha, very good. what on earth are they doing ??

[ChrisGeorge]

ha,ha, very good. what on earth are they doing ??

I don't know but none of them were seen ever again. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

(Just kidding!)

[ChrisGeorge]

June 27th

Don't remember when I took this. I like the way the red life thingy stands out. I could sharpen it as it was early morning mist I think but I do not alter my pics at all, I want them to be the colours I saw. Same with my beach pics. For me I like my pics natural.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Liverpool/LiverBuildingfromthedock-1.jpg

Thanks for this pic, Ronijayne. The photograph on the Seven Streets (http://www.sevenstreets.com/features/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-mann-island/) blog shows the rather, to my mind, shocking transformation of the same scene... and the title of the blog entry "Total Eclipse of the Heart - Mann Island" editorializing on the change of scene says it. UGH!!!!'

C

[Ronijayne]

I sat on that bench waiting for my cousin to meet me. It was lovely and I am so sorry to hear it is no longer. It was early morning if I remember correctly and so peaceful I enjoyed the wait, I am usually very impatient!

[wsteve55]

June 27th

Don't remember when I took this. I like the way the red life thingy stands out. I could sharpen it as it was early morning mist I think but I do not alter my pics at all, I want them to be the colours I saw. Same with my beach pics. For me I like my pics natural.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Liverpool/LiverBuildingfromthedock-1.jpg

Not the same view,but this is the building that has gone up in that area!

[Ronijayne]

Not the same view,but this is the building that has gone up in that area!

Yikes, that will ruin that view for sure, Shame

[robbo176]

Yikes, that will ruin that view for sure, Shame

it certainly has :( ..........same view taken last Sunday
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/coopers/DSCF6663.jpg

[Ronijayne]

it certainly has :( ..........same view taken last Sunday
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/coopers/DSCF6663.jpg

Something else we lost!

[ChrisGeorge]

Disgraceful! Dear me. . . . . http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/3550870649_6cffe0c07c_o.gif

[az_gila]

Something else we lost!

Ronijayne,

About what year was your original picture taken?

[Ronijayne]

Ronijayne,

About what year was your original picture taken?

I am trying to remember, very hard as I came home EVERY year until recently. No dates on the back of the pics

[naked lilac]

I'd say about 2006...cause I have that same shot Ronijayne

[Ronijayne]

I'd say about 2006...cause I have that same shot Ronijayne

Nope. Last time I was in Liverpool was 2000. 2001 I only went to London and Paris and have not been back since as I went to places in the US for hols. You made me nervous there as I thought maybe someone sent me that pic but all my pics of the Cavern and Matthew Street have the same 'back of photo'

[Ronijayne]

Does this help? Same back as the other two so must have been the same time. I have 2 hard copies of each of these 3 photos

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Liverpool/LiverBuilding.jpg

[wsteve55]

Does this help? Same back as the other two so must have been the same time. I have 2 hard copies of each of these 3 photos

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Liverpool/LiverBuilding.jpg

It's a few years since that walkway went,but not sure which one?

[Ronijayne]

It's a few years since that walkway went,but not sure which one?

I think it was before 1988

[wsteve55]

I think it was before 1988

That long ago? Come on Ged,you must know!:nod:

[Ged]

That walkway only went about 3 years ago. :shock:

[naked lilac]

In 2008, I recall going down that pathway to Birkenhead for the Beatles Festival venues over on that Port.. Never had that second instullation of the museum yet.. Lots of people using the Iris (ferry) and lots to take pics of now.. This is an impressive picture.. Shows the old (background) and the new (museums) and then the Old ferry Iris.. I hope that doesn't change into a super boat now.. ta Gregs Dad.. excellant (glad you stayed afloat on your toes) ha ha

[Ronijayne]

JUNE 2, 2010
Here she is. Can't wait for the restoration to be complete. You can see it says WAVERTREE in white on the black stripe.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Southstreet%20Seaport%20May%2031%202010/DSC03724-1.jpg

For the other thread

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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a177/veronicajayne/Southstreet%20Seaport%20May%2031%202010/DSC03739.jpg

Wavertree was built at Southampton, England in 1885 for R.W. Leyland & Company of Liverpool, one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. Today, she is the largest afloat. Wavertree was first employed to carry jute, used in making rope and burlap bags, between eastern India (now Bangladesh) and ... See MoreScotland. When less then two years old she entered the tramp trades, taking cargoes anywhere in the world she could find them. After sailing for a quarter century, she limped into the Falkland Islands in December 1910, having been dismasted off Cape Horn. Rather then re-rigging her, her owners sold her for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. She was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947, and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.

Wavertree

[mariawilliam]

Excellent images
I like it thanks

[Ronijayne]

Thanks Maria, I pulled it back up as someone just put a photo of her on another thread and the info,lol He is stealing my ship:PDT_Xtremez_12: It was restored and you could go on board but they just did another restoration.

You buy a ticket at the Seaport museum shop and you can go on two of the ships and to the museum. One of my favorite places. I am so glad NYC decided to adopt the abandoned WAVERTREE, put her back to her former glory and she stands majestically right in the center of the Seaport.:)

[Ronijayne]

Ooops, I am still downloading mine, will wait until tomorrow to pop it up. It is of the 1885 ship Wavertree, a great old Cape Horner. Southampton made for a Liverpool company who owned her. She was dis-masted in a Cape Horn storm in 1910 and ended up as a barge in Buenos Aires. Some guy found her poor old body (still working as a barge I think) in 1966 and brought her to NYC, she was helped into the harbour by a sister ship, the Allerton. She sits at Southstreet Seaport and although they have re-masted her she needs a lot of work on her 'tween' area and general HELP!!!! They got a grant for 4 MILLION DOLLARS to restore her, Uni of Wisconsin are working on parts and various other ship restoration places. When she is done she will be part of the Southstreet Seaport Museum walk again and we can go on board once again. At last she can hold her head up high after being abandoned and left to die in a foreign land!!!. YAY

Was just talking to someone about the Wavertree

[az_gila]

...Some guy found her poor old body (still working as a barge I think) in 1966 and brought her to NYC, she was helped into the harbour by a sister ship, the Allerton. She sits at Southstreet Seaport and although they have re-masted her she needs a lot of work on her 'tween' area and general HELP!!!...


Is the sister ship Allerton (a good Liverpool name) still around?

All I could find was this, which says it had a similar fate to the Wavertree....

http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Merchant/Sail/A/Allerton(1884).html

[Ronijayne]

...Some guy found her poor old body (still working as a barge I think) in 1966 and brought her to NYC, she was helped into the harbour by a sister ship, the Allerton. She sits at Southstreet Seaport and although they have re-masted her she needs a lot of work on her 'tween' area and general HELP!!!...


Is the sister ship Allerton (a good Liverpool name) still around?

All I could find was this, which says it had a similar fate to the Wavertree....

http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Merchant/Sail/A/Allerton(1884).html

I will have a look in the book right now.

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No, there is a painting of her being nudged into her birth at Southstreet Seaport by Bill Muller called Night Docking



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Here she is, you have to scroll some way down
http://williamgmuller.com/prints/prints.html

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Does not name her but that is the pic in my book and says she is the Allerton

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This is interesting

http://books.google.com/books?id=KZgaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114&dq=what+happened+to+the+ship+the+allerton&hl=en&ei=e3lMTr3HN5KSgQeUlvSWBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Next time I am at the seaport I will take more pics and ask in the museum about the Allerton

[az_gila]

I will have a look in the book right now.

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No, there is a painting of her being nudged into her birth at Southstreet Seaport by Bill Muller called Night Docking



---------- Post added at 10:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:02 PM ----------

Here she is, you have to scroll some way down
http://williamgmuller.com/prints/prints.html

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Does not name her but that is the pic in my book and says she is the Allerton

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This is interesting

http://books.google.com/books?id=KZgaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114&dq=what+happened+to+the+ship+the+allerton&hl=en&ei=e3lMTr3HN5KSgQeUlvSWBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Next time I am at the seaport I will take more pics and ask in the museum about the Allerton

Thanks... that's wonderful collection of paintings by Muller there...

The google link to the contract dispute is interesting too...:)

[Ronijayne]

I should download pics from the book, such beautiful ships, Wavertree seems to have been painted so often. They love her here. Millions have been gladly spent putting her back to her old self and hundreds of 'shippy people' work on her with such dedication. I wish we had the Allerton too. I shudder to think what has happened to her. She was OK when we got Wavertree as you saw, she helped the limping dazed Wavertree into the Seaport