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Liverpool Folk Club 1970

Subject: RE: Liverpool Folk Club 1970. From: GUEST,LesB. Date: 13 Aug 09 - 03:06 AM Wasn't it also at the 'Customs House' Canning st, for some time. An amazing pub with a collection of sailors caps (including one from the Scharnhorst autographed by some ... What sticks in my mind, though, is that this was my first time living away from home but I could walk into a folk club and meet new people almost straight away - and it's still possible to do that today (just about). ...

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The Cat's Meat Shop: Jamrach's Shop

Indeed, for a much longer period than that, it has been a familiar name with the sailors and naturalists of many nations. The father of Mr. Charles Jamrach, the head of the East-end firm (a naturalised British subject), ... Runners board vessels at Gravesend and in all the London Docks, which are likely to have brought anything which Mr. Jamrach might wish to purchase; and he has agents at Liverpool, Southampton, Plymouth, Deal, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Hamburg, ...

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Pirates Carribean Surrender | What Ricky Thinks

The British navy found itself completely at a loss, too far from home, sick and discouraged with teams that were held only in accordance with a discipline so hard it caused mutinies. The poor, starving sailors on Most of their own ...

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