A Day in Liverpool (1929)

A 1929 short film about a 'day in Liverpool'

The film documents the life of a single day of the city with some remarkable footage including rare views of the inside of the Cotton and Fruit Exchanges.

0:00 Titles
1:25 Ferries
1:41 Commuters getting into work (ferries, trams and trains)
4:32 The Pier Head
7:16 The Floating Roadway
7:44 The Docks and cotton imports
9:48 Trading floor of the Cotton Exchange
10:13 Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse
10:29 Fruit imports
11:22 Trading floor of the Fruit Exchange
11:51 Timber imports
13:09 Meat imports
14:04 Liverpool's UK markets
14:53 The Docklands from the Overhead Railway
15:51 Gladstone Docks
17:12 Grand National
18:50 Birkenhead
19:26 The transport ferry to Birkenhead
19:54 Flour Mills
20:11 Liverpool's Playground
21:09 Arrival of a White Star Liner
23:08 St George's Hall & William Brown Street
23:30 A look at some of the shops
25:03 New constructions (Midland Bank, Liverpool Catherdral)
27:06 Locomotives being loaded on ships for India
27:47 A liner leaving the Pier Head
30:00 End of the working day