Gordon Smith Institute.

[Jim Brady]

I know Brian has spent many nights in this place,maybe some other have.Anyway this is it's future.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Stunning plans revealed for old seafarers centre on Paradise Street - Liverpool Echo

[cappy]

I know Brian has spent many nights in this place,maybe some other have.Anyway this is it's future.
Regards.
Jim.B.
Stunning plans revealed for old seafarers centre on Paradise Street - Liverpool Echo

###think i stayed there once after paying off ####a couple of nights chasing .....if i remember they called them judies in liverpool....dont thinkthey were called judies any were else......also stayed in a similar in birkenhead while the vessel was fumigated.....years later it was a trouser manufacturers......did some good business there ...then he went bust ...regards cappy

[Captain Kong]

Yes Jim
Stayed there many times.
It was a little more up market than the SAILORS HOME across the road. cost an extra shilling to stay there, , In the dormatory a bed was four shillings [ 20p today ] including a good breakfast. single rooms four shillings and sixpence to five shuillings.
Glad they are not pulling it down. Should be a monument to me and all the other seafarers who stayed there.
Thanks for the memory
Cheers
Brian.
I am off to sunny Fleetwood in an hour, back on Tuesday/ Wednesday, to see an old Australian mate from 2RAR before he flies back to Surfers Paradise in QLD, On Wednesday.

[Jim Brady]

Cappy I remember a Welsh lad said to me,there's a lot of girls in Liverpool called Judy.I think he had sailed with a load of scousers and all hands refered to their girl friends or wife as Judy.Not only wives or girl friends but any females,"me and me mates was in the pub and these three judy's came in".I've no idea where it originated but it has been going a long time.The other word they use for girl friend or wife is "Me Tart" so me an me tart went for a good bevie in town last night.Dockers had nicknames in Liverpool a name that was applicable in many ways.One guy lived with just his wife had no children,he was always saying "there's only me an me tart" so he was nicknamed The Lonely Baker.Very rare you hear the word Judy or Tart now kids today would look at you and wonder what you were talking about.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[cappy]

Cappy I remember a Welsh lad said to me,there's a lot of girls in Liverpool called Judy.I think he had sailed with a load of scousers and all hands refered to their girl friends or wife as Judy.Not only wives or girl friends but any females,"me and me mates was in the pub and these three judy's came in".I've no idea where it originated but it has been going a long time.The other word they use for girl friend or wife is "Me Tart" so me an me tart went for a good bevie in town last night.Dockers had nicknames in Liverpool a name that was applicable in many ways.One guy lived with just his wife had no children,he was always saying "there's only me an me tart" so he was nicknamed The Lonely Baker.Very rare you hear the word Judy or Tart now kids today would look at you and wonder what you were talking about.
Regards.
Jim.B.

#####oright laa have ya seen our kid.....regards cappy

[Captain Kong]

Tart was an abreviation of Sweetheart,
In the 50s Judies , "Going for a bevie with the Judy`s owld fella," was quite common,
The number of times I gorra Judy from the Rialto or Locarno and ended up drinking with her Dad. and then losing the Judy.
Off to Fleetwood now.
Brian

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, never stopped there myself but knew plenty who did, Ref JUDY never came across that one? but knew plenty of PETS from newcastle way.

[Chris Allman]

Its a lovely old building, I hope they don't change its character with the extension, as it is part of the history of Liverpool.

[Jim Brady]

When I posted on the Titanic hotel some of the ex-pat scouser lads said that they enjoyed the old black and white pictures of Liverpool,here are some more for them to have a look at and bring back some memories.Me and Gilly walked up Church Street on Friday after a few pints in the Pen & Wig and we were trying to remember Church Street when the trams ran along it.
Regards.
Jim.B.
In pictures: Looking back at Liverpool through the decades - Liverpool Echo

[John Albert Evans]

Jim, you and I joined the MN around the same time, you were a month earlier at Gravesend.
I remember going to the Shipping Federation Office in Paradise Street before going the Gravesend, for the life of me I cannt remember the building I went to because on returning from Gravesend I went to Mann Island. I was wondering if it was the same one in your thread 1#
I liked the photos they brought back good memories, thanks.

John.