Leaving from Liverpool

Would you have taken the boy’s help?

You would have been right – these boys and men are ‘runners’, rounding up the lost on behalf of dirty, expensive hotels. A policeman directed us to the shipping office, from where we were pointed to very basic but clean rooms.

Hear about Dirk and Elsk Van Den Berg and their journey from Holland to Canada through Liverpool in 1906.

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Liverpool - Birkenhead