The Leaving of Liverpool
A family sets sail for Canada in the 1930s.
The landing stage at Liverpool. The passenger gangways are visible. | ![]() |
Passengers board. | ![]() |
Liverpool’s “Three graces”. At left: the Liver building, built in 1911 for the Royal Liver Friendly Society. In the centre: the Cunard building. To the right: the Port of Liverpool building. | ![]() |
The vessel is unidentified but an idea of its size can be gathered from the relative distance of the far pasenger gangway. | ![]() |
With the River Mersey behind and the smoking chimneys of Wallasey in the distance, our photographer’s family take their first stroll on deck. | ![]() |
The ships superstructure may give some clue to her identity. | ![]() |
A Mersey ferry passes by. The tower to the right may be one of the exhaust outlets for the newly opened Birkenhead tunnel. | ![]() |
Mersey ferries pass. | ![]() |
Shuffleboard on deck. Boys… | ![]() |
The pipe-smoker finds other ways to relax. | ![]() |
Deck Quoits. | ![]() |