Seamen's Missions

I remember that one in Sharpness, it had just opened before I went there in March 1952, The previous one was an old corrugated iron hut. Mark Allen was the piano man and he gave every lad who was going home a bible. He wasnt a priest. Mr Beamish was the man who ran the place, I suppose he was the Padre.
I met a lovely girl there, one of the local girls who volunteered to serve behind the counter in the canteen.
We went out together and I used to visit after when I was on leave and stay at her home for nearly two years. I was at a Vindy reunion a couple of years or so ago and she phoned me at my hotel and we talked for over an hour, after around 55 years , I could not see her because her husband heard I was in town.
happy days.

Hi Captain, Many thanks for correcting my post, the dusts of time fogs the memory sometimes. Must say, to of courted a girl in Sharpness, must be one of lifes mirricles. When I was there in 1958 the onley young ladies were found at Berkley Church on Sunday, and they seemed to be well chapperonend, and along with the bromide they laced the nightly chocolate with, definitely seemed to slow the hormones down :D:D Well done.
George
in Southampton

Hi Vernon,

My apologies for not replying sooner but the Pirates essay has taken over my life for the moment! Thank you so much for these pictures. Wonderful.

kind regards,

Patricia

Hi Michael,

Thank you for taking an interest in the Pirate essay. However, I cannot use Wallasey and Hoylake because I'm answering a question on piracy in the Caribbean. Am glad to say it is nearly finished now and I can concentrate on my dissertation.

Kind regards,

Patricia

hi patricia it seems that you are a busy lady i have just been reading a book and it as a full chapter on seamens mission and other associations concering seamens missions it is called life line by peter elphick chapter 10. im sure it would give you a lot of info regards lou barron ex rockferry

hi patricia. have you any stories about female pirates?, ie mary reid alf

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Originally Posted by alf corbyn

hi patricia. have you any stories about female pirates?, ie mary reid alf

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Well Alf there was Maggie Thatcher, does that count as a pirate?

most pirates were more honest than her john. alf

If I remember rightly, the most useless Christmas present ever sent to anyone was the map and compass she gave to her son Mark. He more than likely thought a grid ref., was distance from 1 point to another.:p;):D

Hi Charles,
Thank you so much for the information. I don't have the book but I have come across the author's name in other books. I'm very much at the planning stage at the moment, attempting to organize all the various aspects of seamen's missions, how it relates to what the Victorians labelled the great 'social evil' and the rise in charities in general in Victorian England. I then want to update it to the middle of the 20th century and this is where all these posts are so very helpful. I

I would appreciate some more stories though if that's not too cheeky a request!

Thanks again,

Kind regards,

Patricia