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Mersey Ferries

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AngryOfTuebrook Grand Master

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This could be fun.

http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/cruises/special-cruises-and-events/Pages/Mark-Watson-Cruise.aspx?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Facebook

 

After more than 100 dates on the road in 2016 with his best-reviewed show to date, 'I'm Not Here', and a similarly marathon effort with the previous tour, Mark Watson is amazed to find there are STILL some areas of the country he's not visited much, and some towns that have been neglected altogether. It's hard to be everywhere at once, so he's narrowed it down to a sensible plan: for the next tour, Watson will only visit places beginning with M or W, his initials - as they've already shown a commitment by having those names in the first place. A few of these will be favourite old haunts, some aren't actually towns or venues so much as trains (from Marylebone to Wycombe), ferries (across the Mersey), or a helicopter museum (in the double-point-scoring Middle Wallop).

The material will be a mixture of the classic and the never-before-seen. And in some cases a fair bit of it will be about being on a train.

Cruise departs from Pier Head, Liverpool at 8pm on the 30th November 2017. Cruise duration is approximately two hours. Tickets cost £18 per person and can be bought online by following the link above.

 
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stringvest Grand Master

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I miss the days when they'd have a couple of ferries doing the liverpool-seacombe service, and a couple to birkenhead-liverpool.  A ferry every 15 minutes to either destination.  The last ones would leave at midnight, and the first ones at 4.30-5am.  They were reliable, cheap, and people used them a lot.  The biggest kibosh to the ferries was when the council PTE stopped running the buses.  Typically, there'd be 15-30 buses waiting at Woodside, and 10 at Seacombe ferry terminal, and dozens of buses at the Pier Head.  It was called an integrated transport infrastructure kids. 

 

now it's one ferry doing everything, with gerry and the pacemakers playing out of a loudspeaker.  It's shit.

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A few years ago I was on my way back home from a bike ride. It was quite late and dark and I just managed to catch the last days sailing from Seacombe. I was the only person on it. As it drew up to the Woodside the man at the landing stage gestured the ferry away as there was nobody waiting to board. So I had the whole ferry to myself all the way to the Pier Head. Even better was they didn't even bother playing 'ferry cross da Mersey'.

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A few years ago I was on my way back home from a bike ride. It was quite late and dark and I just managed to catch the last days sailing from Seacombe. I was the only person on it. As it drew up to the Woodside the man at the landing stage gestured the ferry away as there was nobody waiting to board. So I had the whole ferry to myself all the way to the Pier Head. Even better was they didn't even bother playing 'ferry cross da Mersey'.

 

 

floating taxi - nice.  was the bar open?

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Fond memories of the Ferry as a kid,but not many people had cars then and there was no Wallasey tunnel. You either took the train or the Ferry, usually the Ferry if the weather was ok as the trains were noisy, crowded and full of people puffing away on Capstan Full Strength and Pipes.

Like Stringy says the buses were all waiting at the Ferry terminals and it worked well. It was of its time but I'm glad there is a token tourist boat still doing the rounds, 

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Fond memories of the Ferry as a kid,but not many people had cars then and there was no Wallasey tunnel. You either took the train or the Ferry, usually the Ferry if the weather was ok as the trains were noisy, crowded and full of people puffing away on Capstan Full Strength and Pipes.

Like Stringy says the buses were all waiting at the Ferry terminals and it worked well. It was of its time but I'm glad there is a token tourist boat still doing the rounds, 

 

Apart from them piping Ferry Cross the Mersey through the tannoy on a loop. That's woeful. 

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stringvest Grand Master

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11 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Royal Daffodil getting tarted up and turned into a moored venue.

 

I reckon this could be boss.

 

https://www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/new-home-for-royal-daffodil/?fbclid=IwAR1A79IAxhkVk8rPJyR321VhDhDU11wIyZRiagx6f-bb3U5KvQBFJa__L7Y

That’s not the real Royal Daffodil anyway - that was a much bigger boat

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