Post by Howie on Aug 26, 2004 17:27:32 GMT -5
Tribute to 200 years of history
Aug 26 2004
By Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
LIVERPOOL is planning a fleet of celebrations next year to mark the 200th anniversary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.
The battle, in which the naval hero was fatally wounded, took place on October 21, 1805.
Events will form part of Sea Liverpool, one of the themed years running up to Capital of Culture in 2008.
Among the events planned are a 200th anniversary lecture in January by Dr Colin White, the world authority on Nelson; a civic black tie dinner at Liverpool town hall on September 29 - Nelson's birthday; a visit by the Grand Turk tall ship on October 21 to mark Trafalgar Day; and a small Age of Nelson display of documents and letters from the era at the Maritime Museum.
An interactive play about Trafalgar will be performed at Willaston village hall in Wirral, while in August a replica of HMS Pickle, which brought the news of Nelson's victory to Britain, will sail in to Canning Dock. Trafalgar will also be remembered at a concert at New Brighton's Floral Pavilion in September.
Liverpool boasts one of the world's most important and earliest memorials to Nelson, despite there being no evidence of the British hero ever spending time in the city.
The Grade II* listed monument in Exchange Flags features four prisoners in chains, each marking one of Nelson's major sea victories - Cape St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar.
It was unveiled in 1813, and paid for by public sub-scription at a cost of £9,000.
Nelson was particularly celebrated in Liverpool because his destruction of the French fleet meant the city's merchants could once again ply their international trade without interference.
The city has a Nelson Dock and Lord Nelson Street.
Source: Liverpool Echo
Aug 26 2004
By Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
LIVERPOOL is planning a fleet of celebrations next year to mark the 200th anniversary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.
The battle, in which the naval hero was fatally wounded, took place on October 21, 1805.
Events will form part of Sea Liverpool, one of the themed years running up to Capital of Culture in 2008.
Among the events planned are a 200th anniversary lecture in January by Dr Colin White, the world authority on Nelson; a civic black tie dinner at Liverpool town hall on September 29 - Nelson's birthday; a visit by the Grand Turk tall ship on October 21 to mark Trafalgar Day; and a small Age of Nelson display of documents and letters from the era at the Maritime Museum.
An interactive play about Trafalgar will be performed at Willaston village hall in Wirral, while in August a replica of HMS Pickle, which brought the news of Nelson's victory to Britain, will sail in to Canning Dock. Trafalgar will also be remembered at a concert at New Brighton's Floral Pavilion in September.
Liverpool boasts one of the world's most important and earliest memorials to Nelson, despite there being no evidence of the British hero ever spending time in the city.
The Grade II* listed monument in Exchange Flags features four prisoners in chains, each marking one of Nelson's major sea victories - Cape St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar.
It was unveiled in 1813, and paid for by public sub-scription at a cost of £9,000.
Nelson was particularly celebrated in Liverpool because his destruction of the French fleet meant the city's merchants could once again ply their international trade without interference.
The city has a Nelson Dock and Lord Nelson Street.
Source: Liverpool Echo
