Sefton's Lost Voices - Ken Cockram (Youtube version)

A short YouTube version of Ken Cockram's account of joining the Merchant Navy and later meeting his wife in Liverpool's Grafton Rooms.

Ken settled in Maghull for 50 years after a career at sea and living in New York City.

All images supplied by Ken Cockram except for: the PSNC flag and passenger-cargo model which are courtesy of © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
and the picture HMS Avenger (Woolworth Carrier), Image FL 1268 - courstesy of IWM (Imperial War Museum)