Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home for his meal, while his horse leans ...

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Captain Daniel Dow was born at Castlebellingham, Co.Louth, Ireland in 1860. He served with Brocklebank and Cunard and the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR). He was the usual master of Lusitania, but was on ...

The National Dock Labour Board was set up in 1947 to find a solution to the prevailing casual labour system in Britain's ports. Its two aims were to ensure that dock work was undertaken only by ...

Typescript article on the Rhyl semaphore telegraph stations, part of a chain of stations set up in 1927 by the trustees of the Liverpool Dock Board, c.1982.

20 photos of convoy PQ17 to North Russia (WW2) (Second World War) taken by Liverpool AB Alf Webster who worked on the close anti-aircraft ship HMS Pozarika in the transmitting station of the ship.