Many thanks Knowhowe and Waterways
I've started to read the book online and I'm sure it'll help me a lot. At the least it has lots of vivid images of nautical characters in moleskin coats, canvas hats, red neckscarves and gold earings. Jews and negroes, drunken sailors and prostitutes, gin sodden mothers....well you get the idea. It was indeed a time of rich images and that book positively reeks of the docks.
I have read that Liverpool sided with the Southern cause and at that time many a Confederate flag flew over Liverpool.
I must agree with your comments (in red) Waterways; I think Liverpool could make much more of it's unique dockland past.
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PS I wonder what those tough Liverpool men and women would have said about today's Political Correctness? I'm sure they would have used some choice words.
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