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		<name>Les Auld</name>
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	<updated>2008-07-06T13:27:38Z</updated>
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				The race ended in 2008
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				Three of the clippers race down the River Mersey to the finish line on a grey morning in July. After over 35,000 miles the ten clippers returned to Liverpool and the welcome from the thousands of people on the river and the dock sides. These three are the Glasgow Clipper, Singapore Clipper and Western Australia Clipper. The morning started off grey and wet, waiting in the rain for over an hour to board the Royal Iris of the Mersey to sail out and greet the clippers, during the three hour voyage we had heavy rain, thunder and lightning, drizzle, patches of mist and finally the sun breaking through. All in all, a changeable day on the river.
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		<updated>2008-07-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				The race began in 2007
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				On Saturday the 16th September 2007 ten 20 Metre long Clippers set sail from Liverpool to race around the world, over 35,000 miles of sailing, calling in at 13 ports along the way. Seen here are the Jamaica, Qingdao and New York Clippers passing Wallesey on the way out of the River Mersey. On Saturday 5th July 2008 the Clippers return to Liverpool to complete the race. Mersey Ferries are running a special cruise to greet them so another opportunity to get some pictures on the river. The weather forecast is heavy rain so it looks like it might be a difficult day for good pictures but you have to hope. More details about the race may be found here.
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		<updated>2008-07-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Fleetwood Fishing Dock
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				On the way back from Clevelys I took the opportunity to try and find the Fleetwood Wrecks, so ably photographed by other Shutterchancers, Digiphotology and Murphys to name but two of many. So I went down by the docks and found my way blocked by temporary fencing all around the area, it looks like there is considerable work going on there. Maybe there is acess via another route but unfortunately I could not spend the time looking. So I came away with some pictures of the Fish Dock. This shows the stern trawler Jacinta, now owned by Fleetwood Museum, once one of the most prolific of trawlers in the area and the most famous of here generation.
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		<updated>2008-07-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Deconstructing Riverdance
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				Had the opportunity to slip up to Clevelys yesterday to see how the breaking up of the Riverdance ferry was progressing. This is taken from the south side of the wreck with the frames of an earlier shipwreck emerging from the sand, I did once know the name of this earlier wreck but seem to have forgoten it for the moment..
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		<updated>2008-07-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Oakgarth
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				On a grey day the tug Oakgarth waits in Langton Lock for the gates to open and allow it to go inot the Liverpool dock system.
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		<updated>2008-07-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				A Rust Bucket in the Rain
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				The Mersey Mariner is a grab dredger used by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to clear the dock areas of mud and silt. It is not used that often these days and is seen here at it's regular mooring in Huslisson Dock amongst the bouys and the scrap metal.
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		<updated>2008-06-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Eastham Ferry
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				taken from the Mersey Ferry. Paddlesteamers used to travel between Eastham and Liverpool across the River Mersey in the early 1800's. In 1846 the Eastham Ferry Hotel and Pleasure Gardens were built here, with a zoo, ornamental gardens , roller coaster and many other attractions. The last ferry ran in the mid 1800s and teh gardens were closed down in the 1920s All that remains is the Tap public house and the rump of the ferry pier in eastham Country Park. I wonder just what it was like at the turn of the twentieth century?
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		<updated>2008-06-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				USS Empire State
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				Originally built as the SS Oregan in 1962 the ship was converted to a training ship and delivered to the State University of New York Maritime College to train the sailors of tomorrow. Sha has also been utilised by the US Navy in several special operations. She is seen here moored at the Liverpool Cruise Liner Facility during a four day visit in June.
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		<updated>2008-06-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				A day out
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				Last Saturday was the annual "Friends of the Ferries" river and dock cruise, 5 hours on a Mersey Ferry up and down the river and around the docks, IT RAINED ALL DAY! The light was awful, it was dull and dreary just not the day to take photographs, but you do and then try to revive them a bit with the processing. In Langton Dock was this impressive Victorian Structure, it is a Pumping station, originaly used to maintain the levels in the docks and work the adjacent dry docks. The original image was flat and grey, even HDR work did not improve it so the obvious thing to do was make it even worse.
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		<updated>2008-06-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Bluecoat Chambers
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				The Bluecoat school in Liverpool was opened in 1717 as a school to teach poor children to read, write and cast accounts. The building, in the Queen Anne style, is only a few yards from the city centre and now provides a centre for the arts. It has just undergone a multi-million pound facelift and not long after the re-opening in 2008 part of it was damaged by fire. And there is a superlambanana in the grounds as well.
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		<updated>2008-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Go Superlambananas
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				As part of Liverpool's European Year of Culture 119 small Superlabananas have been created and spread around the city, with one making it as far as London. 96 sponsiors and 27 Community Groups have each arranged for them to be indiviually decorated. It is entertaining, walking around the city and seeing them as you turn a corner or enter a shop, and the number of people wandering around with location maps and cameras is just amazing. It certainly looks like these bizarre creatures have caught the imagination of the people of Liverpool. Unfortunately there are some who are against these little creatures, but I would love one for the garden. They will be in place util mid August after which most will be auctioned off in aid of various charities. More details may be found here and here.
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		<updated>2008-06-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
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				Animal, Vegetable or Mineral
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				or all three, Superlambanana is a sculpture in Liverpool bringing together many different elements, it is also a precautionary tale agains the perils of genetic engineering. When it was first unveiled, Superlambanana raised a few eyebrows and even attracted a number of critics but it has now been taken to the hearts of scousers everywhere as a symbol for this years Capital of Culture. It weighs more than seven tons, was built in the derelict former Bryant and May match factory for the Artranspennine '98 Festival. Designed by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo, who has studios in New York and Tokyo, the £35,000 concrete sculpture was meant to highlight the "positive and negative aspects of genetic engineering".
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		<updated>2008-06-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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