Cultural References
"Ferry Cross the Mersey" was a 1964 song, film, and soundtrack album. The song was written by Gerry Marsden, recorded by Gerry & The Pacemakers and was a hit in both the UK and US. In 1989, a charity version of the song was recorded by Liverpool artists The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden, and Stock Aitken Waterman, and was released in aid of those affected by the Hillsborough disaster. It held the #1 spot in the UK chart for three weeks.
The ferries also featured in the opening credit sequences of the popular BBC TV comedy series, "The Liver Birds", written by Carla Lane, which ran from 1969 to 1979. The ferry depicted was the Royal Daffodil II.
The ferries were referred to repeatedly in Helen Forrester's (1974) book Two Pence to Cross the Mersey, because the fare for a journey to the Wirral (tuppence) was too expensive for a destitute Liverpool family to afford during the Great Depression.
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