REGARDING the correspondence concerning the New Brighton ferries, I often used the service in the early 1940s, during the school holidays.
The boats used were generally the Royal Daffodil the Second and the Royal Iris the Second: both three-deckers.
There was a gramophone, with loudspeakers, which blared out the strains of Lili Marlene incessantly!
Although the landing-stage at New Brighton was small, part of it had been given over to the Royal Navy.
There were a couple of torpedo tubes, presumably in case a German warship entered the river: a possibility which was not perhaps as fanciful as it seems to-day, bearing in mind that German cruisers had bombarded towns on the east coast during the Great War.
Brian Checkland, Thingwall.
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