This is the sort of instrument that they made. This is the sextant which is absolutely marvellous and used by ships across the world. Until you’ve actually sailed somewhere you don’t realise h...

"They made tents and all sorts of bags for the army to carry and that employed hundreds and hundreds of girls." Jim Smith

"The greatest instrument makers in the world." Jim Smith

It sold everything, lingerie and all the beautiful clothes. Everyone used to go to Blacklers, it was noted.

Now Blacklers I remember because that’s where I always got my school uniform from, so you’d go there for your blazer and be forced to buy a blazer that was about three sizes bigger than you ne...

Certainly I remember Clayton Square, which had Owen Owen’s opposite it. These areas weren’t pedestrianised and Clayton Square was famous for a cinema that specialised in what we might say now ...

St George’s Hall was terribly black and sooty and in all the years that I lived in Liverpool, between the 50s till the early 70s, I never went in St George’s Hall, I didn’t know what happened ...

St Luke’s Church by the way, you know on Bold Street that was a major navigation point. This is the Liverpool docks and on this wall would be all the compass readings painted in massive big le...

This bombed out church on this corner again was another landmark, you’d look up Renshaw Street and it’d be there at the head. I remember it being just a shell. I never went to look inside it b...