Now Queen Square used to be the outdoor fruit and vegetable market and I worked there from 1964 through till 1969 (Vincent plots the location on a map). I worked there from '64 to '69 for a co...

I remember St John’s market and the fish market in the 50s but it was very very rough. It had got very run down and those buildings were very tired. They could have been retained but they woul...

You’d see the odd one going past with the two horses and the fella would either be sat on the wagon or he’d be walking alongside it or maybe he nipped in the pub for a pint and left it going o...

And then next to the Queens Dock you had the Kings Dock, now Kings Dock they were - in through that port would be the oranges. And the oranges would be, sort of, or probably stand about that h...

The ships were everywhere. We used to do all the Isle of Man ships; Ben Machree, Lady of Man. All these docks were full and we’d travel round and we were kept so busy it was unbelievable, day ...

Just about here on the Dock Road at Coburg Dock, there were massive granary buildings. They were of varying ages but were very high, concrete buildings where grain was offloaded from the docks...

Colin: "It was quite busy because it was sort of going down. The south end was coming to an end because they started up the top end with the, up towards Seaforth, with the container docks and ...

For some reason or other there was a consignment of pianos, for one reason or another, going out on a ship and we were coming in on a ship bringing wine and fruit and everything. One of the do...

I got sent to the dock and you used to get, I think around about 1976, 77 they tried to start a union and it was only for fruit porters, what used to be called fruit skins years ago. That’s wh...

The Dock Road was still, certainly the north end, was very much bounded by the dock wall with dock gates and you did not go in. I could not go in without an invitation, for example my husband ...