November 23, 2020. IT was no surprise that Fred Walker should make his name as a naval architect, marine historian, author and lecturer. In his youth he spent much of his time in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, peering through glass cases at the collection of Clyde-built ships. He pored over archives in the Mitchell Library, and he walked the city’s docks with his friend, James Macaulay. The Clyde was then busy with shipping: dredgers, tugs, passenger steamers, and cargo and pleasure vessels such as the King Edward and Queen Mary. Much of what Fred saw, learnt, and read would find its way into The Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, (1984), a valedictory memoir of 36 shipyards; within a few years most of them were to vanish.
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The tribute licence plate for the late Kerry Trubshoe was made by a family member who has since died himself. “I’m quite upset about it all. I can’t work out why somebody would take it, because it would be irrelevant to anyone else,” she said. “We’ve had things stolen off Kerry’s grave before, like a little motorcycle, but that could be replaced.” A similar licence plate could likely be made, but it wouldn’t hold the same sentimental value. The plate was made by her brother-in-law in Australia who has since died himself, in 2020. Trubshoe said it had become a memorial for both men.
Despite snow and biting cold, families formed a queue outside the Pickle Palace in Chopwell.
The former mining community in Gateshead was once nicknamed little Moscow because of strong support here for the Communist Party.
It now looks like a Soviet scene, with figures shuffling to keep warm in the snow. Image: Gateshead was once nicknamed little Moscow because of strong local support for communism
Grassroots charity workers here are noticing something that is being observed up and down the country; that there is a new section of society looking for help: the working poor and it is their children who are suffering most from the closure of schools.
Huge power cut affecting L8 area of Liverpool set to last hours
The power cut is expected to continue for a number of hours
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Homes in the L8 area of Liverpool are currently experiencing a power cut. (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
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