This cache is adjacent to the site of the former shipyard of W. J. Yarwood & Sons and is dedicated to my father and others who worked there building ocean-going ships, as well as river and canal craft until the yard’s closure in 1966. Now a housing development, only the street names "Yarwood Close" and other roads named after former vessels, "Brocklebank" and "Athelbrae" (the largest vessel to be built at the yard), give a hint of the area's past.
Parking is in Yarwood Close, where a commemorative plaque gives more information on the history of the yard.
The width of the river at this point meant the ships were launched sideways.
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This was less graceful than the usual stern-first method employed in larger shipyards, but far more spectacular as a huge column of water was thrown across the river, drenching any of the crowds of spectators who were standing on the opposite bank.
Although nearly thirty miles from the open sea, vessels built and launched from this site made their way via the Weaver Navigation, the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey, to ports all over the world.
One of the last ships to be built, the tug "Brocklebank" currently at Liverpool Maritime Museum.