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Liverpool People by Stephen Shakeshaft
Liverpool People by Stephen Shakeshaft. An exhibition at the National Conservation Centre, 18 September 2009 to 24 January 2010.
© Stephen Shakeshaft
"The dockers provided the backbone to the city and its commerce. I covered dockers' strikes and pickets, I was there when they received their redundancy notices and when they realised their jobs were gone, replaced by the container monsters of Seaforth."
Stephen Shakeshaft
A number of reminiscence sessions have been held during the exhibition in which people have discussed the events, places and people captured in Stephen Shakeshaft's evocative photographs. Here are some examples of the responses to this picture:
"Half my working life was spent on the south and north docks. I am old enough to remember the trams, the Overhead Railway, St John's Market, the pubs, the ships, the men, dockers' canteen and the industry dying. Sugar and animal feed are still in my nostrils."
"I remember the ship 'Itaite' working regularly in the 1970s."
Tom, ex dockworker."On the Docker's Umbrella when I was probably about 7 years old with my grandad. I remember being fascinated by a Chinese gent wearing overalls smiling at me with his set of gold teeth."
More reminiscence sessions are planned during the exhibition, see the exhibition events programme for further details if you would like to take part.