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BBC North West Regional Documentaries: Record Detail

Accession Number

B3

Series Title

BALLADS OF THE NORTH WEST

Programme Title

WRECKERS

Producer

Douglas Boyd

Other Credits

Presenter: Harry Boardman; Music: The Pennines; Script: Ken Campbell

Transmission Date

03/07/73

 

colour , sound (sep), 09 mins 50 secs

Synopsis

B3/1: Presenter Harry Boardman visits the north coast of Wirral and recounts the history of 'wreckers', communities in the early 19th century who caused shipwrecks by displaying false lights on the coast and then plundered the cargo. There are shots of Leasowe lighthouse, Leasowe Castle, Bidston Moss, Bidston Hall, Saughall Massey mill, sailors' graves in a cemetery and sandunes and beaches on north Wirral. 09m50s