Mapping Memory by National Museums Liverpool

Transcript for Tony Wailey Sailor's Home video

It used to cater for seamen, obviously, who used to be ashore here and it was almost like a Seaman’s Mission. You used to get quite a lot of fellas who’d get drunk and who’d been away to sea for years and years and they’d bunk in there as well, so it almost acted as a mid-way home between the seamen and a hostel, for down and outs. They used to have steps (acts out the motion), terraced steps and you’d always see lads having a drink out of a bottle or something like that early in a morning.