Thanks to artfriendsmerseyside.org for enthusiastically launching my new talk on the tragic #wartime sinking of SS Arandora Star, at the elegant @Racquet_Club Hotel #Liverpool
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Peter Elson
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Peter Elson
@ElsonPeter
Award-winning journalist covering maritime, rail, heritage and general features - available for city tours and historic talks.
North West UK Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Top UK maritime themed wine tasting Fizz & Ships casts off Sat 18 April 7pm St Anne’s church #Liverpool L17 6BH. Tix £30 friendsofsaorgan@gmail.com. Don’t miss the boat!
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@BygoneBritain @CrecyRail Could have given her a wipe over for this prestigious train. And you wonder why people deserted rail travel!
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Merchant Navy Class No. 35003 ‘Royal Mail’ on the down slow lines at Pirbright with a down Bournemouth Belle working 21st June 1965
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@PastGlasgow Shameful. Another unassuming but attractive building lost to create more acres of Nowheresville. Btw love the name Spoutmouth - new one on me!
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The White Tower restaurant at the corner of the Gallowgate and Spoutmouth, photographed in 1969 by Professor John Hume. Round the corner on Spoutmouth was the Lough Erne bar. The building was demolished in the 1970s and nothing in this scene remains.
📷 John Hume
#Glasgow
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Peak Peter Elson!
So proud to give first LJMU Roscoe Lecture 2026 on the sinking of Cunard superliner Lusitania between New York and Liverpool.
It changed warfare forever.
Nobody’s safe now. @LJMU @cunardline #Liverpool #Lusitania #NewYork #elsonshippinglines
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#Liverpool John Moores University cranks up the publicity for my Sinking of the #Lusitania: Murder or misfortune? #Roscoe Lecture on Tue 3 March 5pm at #LJMU John #Lennon Art & Design Centre L3 5QT.
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I struggle to find words strong enough to convey the utter contempt I feel for the person who perpetrated this disgraceful act of vandalism — and for anyone who condones it.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen@srodan
This is what so-called « pro-Palestinians » did last night to the man who saved the free world.
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@HWarlow Such a beautifully framed shot . So simple but so effective especially with the adult and child making you start to imagine a story.
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Good Afternoon
Such an atmospheric photograph.
No details but worth a post
The carriage door has LNER on the side.
The London Aberdeen train I think. But my eyes could have deceived me!
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Few tickets left for my Sinking of the #Lusitania: Murder or Misfortune? at free prestigious #LJMU Roscoe Lecture Tue 3 Mar @ 5pm John #Lennon Art & Design Centre #Liverpool L3 5RD #Cunard #WorldWarOne #WWI #Uboat #torpedo #Churchill
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More than just a superliner sinking: Peter Elson explains how the tragedy of #Liverpool #Cunard liner #Lusitania changed warfare forever. Here how at his #LJMU Roscoe Lecture Tue 3 Mar 5pm John #Lennon Art & Design Centre Liverpool L3 5RD. Tix eventbrite.co.uk
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Thrilled to announce that @LJMU VC MarkPower, left, (seen with Mrs Elaine Power) invited me to give first 2026 Roscoe Lecture at John Lennon Auditorium #Liverpool John Moores University 3 March about RMS #Lusitania sinking. @cunardline #WorldWarOne #Uboat #NewYork #University
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@JohnCleese @FAB87F Unbelievably inhumane. Perhaps someone should chase Robert Pera with a deadly drone so he can experience the terror himself which he blithely unleashes on innocent people.
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Remember the name - Robert Pera
it’s always monday fella@PerhapsIamU
US billionaire Robert Pera has blood on his hands. His company Ubiquiti is supplying russia with the means to guide their deadly Shahed drones to hit moving targets. Today three Shaheds targeted a moving train with 290 civilians on board. There are casualties.
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12 years after leaving @LivEchonews I’m back not asking questions but answering @RebeccaMJourno about fabled ‘50s Mersey ferry MV Royal Iris’ fate, as a ‘respected authority on shipping matters’ no less! @MerseyFerries #Liverpool #Beatles #PaulMcCartney #RiverMersey #NewBrighton
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Hear what history wouldn’t say as Peter Elson delves into Adml Lord Nelson’s infamous quote ‘Kiss me Hardy’ youtube.com/shorts/penERI5… #AdmiralNelson #CaptHardy #BattleofTrafalgar #HMSVictory #FrenchNavy #Napoleon #LukeSkywalker #Liverpool #NationalMuseumsLiverpol #PlayitagainSam
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@markowenf24 @oldpicposter Will you join my campaign to save the Beatles Salvor Mast and have it relocated to new EFC Hill Dicks Stadium please? elsonshippinglines.com
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Always makes me feel homesick this one 💙
Kathleen@oldpicposter
Gerry and the Pacemakers (Ferry Cross The Mersey) source Migueleao54-old vinyl songs.
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@PLAY2ALLUK @oldpicposter @BluesmanMikeF Historic Liverpool ships MF Egremont, Mersey Bar LV Planet and TS Tenacious all rotting in Sharpness Docks when they should be preserved in Liverpool as part of the planned huge refurb scheme. No hope of that though!
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@oldpicposter That’s this one… the Egremont. Now rotting away in Sharpness dock (see liverpoolmiscellany.blogspot.com/2020/08/put-yo… ).
Pics c/o @BluesmanMikeF
Join @Play2AllUK Free to #SaveOurLiveMusicScene
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Liverpool Athenaeum Club’s amazing 1928 elliptical spiral staircase dressed for Christmas 2026. #Liverpool #Athenaeum #gentlemensclub #club #spiral #elliptical #staircase #neoclassical #1920s @ElsonPeter #elsonshippinglines.com
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Erratum: Event date is 10 Dec (not 7 Dec as above - due to fact I can't read a diary).
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Honoured to be invited to speak at The Arandora Star Sinking film launch at 5pm 7 Dec at Capstone Theatre, Shaw St., @liverpoolhopeuk by Dr Simona Palladino. 805 #Italian internees and crew perished when SS #ArandoraStar was torpedoed in 1940 sailing from #Liverpool to #Canada.
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