Seaforth Docks.

[Captain Kong]

I never saw any Pimps , I was even going out with a Barmaid from there, she lived in Elphinstone Street , not far from there. That was in the late 50s.
Cheers
Brian

[thomas michael]

hi dennis
as my memory serves me it could have been the carodoc or the international, as if you had have thrown the silver paper on the floor in either of these two it would not have stuck as they where always wet and soggy and filthy

[Dennis McGuckin]

dennis the royal the carodoc or international?? jp

John. The Royal rings a bell.
However. Too many docks, and so many bars, its hard to remember exactly.

[Jim Brady]

Dennis if you let us know what ship you were on we would have a better idea what dock you would've been in and so have an idea of the pubs near to that berth,maybe you were nowhere near Seaforth.By the way I am interested to know how you found out about the girl getting some lads to roll a Norwegian after ger having taken him outside.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[thomas michael]

hi jim brady
if my memory serves me well the only pub the Norwegians used to congregate was by the the bottom of little strand road on rimrose road by the Langton dock, I remember there was always some poor seaman getting rolled there
and one girl was left for dead by a Norwegian seaman round the back of the pub, I think it was called the elm house am I correct

[Jim Brady]

Norwegians and other seamen used many pubs in Liverpool the Elm House was my local I never seen anybody getting rolled there as you say and I think that there were more locals that drank in there than foreign seamen,not much action in the place for seamen.I don't know how the Norwegian left the girl for dead around the back of the pub because there was no back to it.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Charlie Hannah]

I drank in both the Elm house & The Bootle Arms opposite to the elm house never heard anything or anyone being robbed. You could walk in just about any pub on the dock rd. or Derby road for that matter and you would stand a good chance their would be a few
at the least Norskie's in there. Cheers.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Jim.
I'm getting my pubs mixed up with my ports, I have been in the Caradoc for a pint around 1953 I think, but it was in a pub in Salford that our second cook had his face slashed for taking a girl out.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Have you been watching that TV show Des Peaky Blinders where the gangsters had blades in their peak caps.?I don't think many girls had pimps or minders in the Caradoc as it was a family pub as well I don't think pimps would've been very welcome.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Had thr first two series of that here in Oz but waiting for the third. Maybe that is what you have now.

[Jim Brady]

The new dock on the river Liverpool2 as it is known is now causing a big problem with container wagons on the same road as before the dock was built.They say that there are now an extra 725 more lorries to the docks each day,that is a lot of HGV's extra per day pumping out diesel fumes and congesting the local roads.Before the dock was built Peel Ports put out videos and newspaper articles showing projections how the dock would look and how it would operate.One of the main features if I remember correctly was coasters and barges coming along side the ship on the river and the containers being loaded straight onto these vessels which would then head up the Manchester ShipCanal keeping the roads free of the extra traffic.Now that the dock is up and running I haven't heard any mention of the river traffic it's all about containers by road and what actions can be taken,such as buildind a new road through what is a nice country park.There are enough disused railway lines to open up to take this extra traffic and I'm sure that it would be far cheaper and less inconvenience to the local people.
Regards.
Jim.B.