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THE GOLDEN WRECK - 150th anniversary edition. The tragedy of the Royal Charter. The worst shipwreck in Welsh History...tells of the terrible loss of life in a hurricane, and the quest for the Royal Charter's cargo... GOLD ! New !
HMS THETIS - SECRETS & SCANDAL - aftermath of a disaster : 70th anniversary edition. The truth about what really happened to cover-up the responsibility for the loss of HMS THETIS and how those left behind were treated. New !
THETIS - THE ADMIRALTY REGRETS - the submarine disaster in Liverpool Bay. The worst submarine tragedy in British History. Did the Admiralty really regret?
FORGOTTEN EMPRESS - the detailed story of 'Liverpool's Lost Empress', The Empress of Ireland, and the disaster that befell her in the St. Lawrence Seaway in May 1914... in more ways than one a forgotten tragedy... includes fascinating information on the connection to the infamous Dr. Crippen and never previously published comprehensive crew and passenger listings.

BLUE FUNNEL - VOYAGE EAST  by Award Winning Author Richard Woodman      What was life like aboard a British vessel in the last great days of the Merchant Navy?  This wonderful book takes us in one of the Holt Line's 'China Boats' on a typical trip out of the Mersey, to the Far East and back again by way of Suez.                                    'Life at Sea - Warts and All.' .......Sea Breezes

A HISTORY OF THE SCALA CINEMA -PRESTATYN  How one small town in North Wales reopened its dilapidated cinema.....to become the first totally digital cinema in Wales.  From its humble beginnings in 1913 and its journey ' Back to the Future'.  New !
RUNCORN  -  A TOWN NOT SO NEW    A pictorial record of a town which has undergone profound change. The archive photographs recall forgotten vistas as well as traditional customs and practices of times past together with vanished industries, rural landscapes and buildings which may now be beyond the memories of even the oldest Runcornians. New !
ONCE UPON A TIME IN LIVERPOOL    The true story of one man's life in Liverpool and the well known city character that was his stepfather - Hughie Smith was a local strongman and escapologist who did his act around the streets of the city in the 1950's and 60's. Do YOU remember him?
THE ALABAMA AFFAIR - The British Shipyards Conspiracy  in the American Civil War. One of the very few books to deal with the involvement of Britain in the American civil war.     A book that reads like the most exciting of novels, but it remains historical fact. 
JUST NUISANCE - the amazing but true story of the only dog that was officially enlisted into the British Royal Navy.
LIFE AT LAIRDS - memories of working shipyard men and their lives at the Birkenhead shipyard of Cammell Laird.
CAMMELL LAIRD - THE GOLDEN YEARS - A look at the social and commercial history of this world-famous shipbuilders with particular reference to the 1960's and the Polaris Nuclear Submarine building program.

 

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