Liverpool Cathedral Commemorative Concert: 3 October 2008

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

A film compiled from images taken that day, by Forum member shipnshore :

https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,3440.msg36897.html#msg36897

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

I am currently organising some of the bridgecam pictures I had not yet uploaded; these are the pictures of the final months of QE2's Cunard life.

The pictures for her final call to Liverpool are here :

https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=55206992%40N00&q=qe2+bridgecam+liverpool&m=tags

If you click on them, you get a slightly larger version with a bit of text. Looks like a wet day!

[southfielddane]

It definitely wasn`t a wet day! I was on deck video filming the trip from Douglas IOM to Liverpool and it was a glorious sunrise and sunshine all the way to Liverpool!

[Rob Lightbody]

Alan Brown on Flickr has posted some really wonderful photos of QE2 in Liverpool in October 2008.

I'm sad to say I never saw QE2 in Liverpool, and kick myself for that now, although it was always a day either side of a visit to Greenock, which I always managed!!

https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=124640400@N08&q=qe2

[Alan Snelson]

They are some lovely photos Rob.

I wonder why on her 2007 visit she was portside to and in these photos she was Stbd to.

[June Ingram]

Hi Alan - These are beautiful photos of our amazingly beautiful ship !  June   

[cunardqueen]

  I wonder why on her 2007 visit she was portside to and in these photos she was Stbd to. 

I wonder if its because in 2008 there was some wind blowing which made going along side, interesting. I do remember it being quite windy on the open decks.

[Michael Gallagher]

It was because in 2007 we wanted the Duke of Kent to see her bow when he approached the Terminal (to open it) but didn't realise that would hinder the views of the fireworks that night as they are always best viewed from the stern decks. In 2008 we made sure the stern would be facing the fireworks and that the main reason we always go starboard side to today!

[June Ingram]

Thank you, Michael, very much for the explanation.  June   

[southfielddane]

As we assembled for the concert we were presented with images of the  QE2 on the giant video screen while the organ played.
here is some video I filmed while watching the images.

[June Ingram]

Beautiful images of our QE2 ! And the Widor Toccata - an appropriately majestic composition for a Majestic Lady !

[pete cain]

Couldn't agree more June,
 it got a lot more poignient later on when her (1 of them) paying off pennant was escourted through the Cathederal to 'in Paradesium' by Gabriel Faure, not a dry eye in the house & I wept when seeing it online, really sad.
  Never been able to find it since

[cunardqueen]

I always felt it was in every way a funeral service for QE2.

[June Ingram]

I always felt it was in every way a funeral service for QE2.

It did indeed seem that way.

[Michael Gallagher]

I thought the paying off pennant being brought in to In Paradisum would be the killer moment and it turned out to be... when I turned round to see the audience reaction there wasn't a dry eye to be seen on the immediate rows behind me...