pferguson | August 24, 2019
Let it Be The four shot Americano is delivered to me from the hand of another…Let it Be…I read. Worn upon their person the message is further attached to a warmly smile together with gentle eyed kindness. The Beatles…forever with a message…about love…(about war)…and…forever the desire for peace. As the world winds about its path […]
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Tags: All Together Now Christmas Truce WWI statue, Andrew Edwards, Barrack Obama, Beatles, Beatles Statue, Cunard Building, Let it Be, Liver Building, Liverpool, Liverpool War Memorial, Mesen (Belgium), Port of Liverpool Building, River Mersey, Whisper
pferguson | May 13, 2017
The Nile Campaign 1884 – 1885 As we walk from Liverpool train station the blue-green figure of an officer on a stone plinth attracts us. Together we walk across the roadway and stand before Major General George Earle CB, CSI. Upon the plaque KIRBEKAN stands out from the text and my mind, for I have […]
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Tags: Abu Klea, Ancientania, Brighton, British Museum, Canadian Boatman, Chilliwack, Echoes, Egypt, Kamloops, Khartoum, King and Country, Kirbekan, Liverpool, London (England), Major General William Earle, Malcolm MacLeod, Mortar, National Army Museum, Nile Campaign 1884-1885, Nile Voyageur, Old Steine Gardens, Pleasant Cemetery, Queen and Country, Queen Victoria, Royal Sussex Regiment, Soudan, Sudan, The Nile, Tommy Atkins, William Southern
pferguson | March 11, 2017
The Transports that brought them Today while sauntering through countless images I happened upon this painting that I have always enjoyed for its subject matter and vibrant colours and interrupting angles. Arthur Lismer was an official Canadian war artist and I can only imagine what Lismer thought when encountering the abstract lines of the Olympic […]
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Tags: Arthur Lismer, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, Cunard Line, Dazzle Paint, Halifax (Nova Scotia), HMS President, Home, Liphook, Liverpool, Painting, RMS Adriatic, RMS Baltic, RMS Empress of Britain, RMS Mauretania, SS Carmania, SS Cedric, SS Coronia, Transport Ships, War Artists, White Star Line
