Tug ropes, 1967

The Long Way Home - Bernard Fallon's Liverpool images

3 March to 15 July 2007

The view from a Lamey tug on the Mersey, with Wallasey in the background.

"I began to see further possibilities in making interesting pictures and I looked for more lively things to photograph.

I asked my neighbour, Jack Mayers, if I could get a ride on the tug he worked on. Yes, it was easy as that and it was an exciting afternoon on the Mersey. You could really feel the tide and engines struggling as we pulled in a Polish freighter.

The wind and tide all dramatised my pictures of the crew working to get the visiting freighter safely into dock."

Bernard Fallon

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• Five kids
• The long walk
• Grain barge
• Prams, Crosby
• Wedding cake
• Chimney sweep
• Tug ropes
• Cigarette
• Cathedral and chimney pots
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