The Road to World Domination?

Thanks to statcounter.com , TMG is able to record where our visitors are surfing in from! Yes, I did train as a geography teacher but spent most of my career specialising in maths!

I was brought up on the outskirts of Liverpool. When I was in Third Year Juniors (nb Year 5 in today's regime!) our teacher was the fearsome Mr. Taylor. He was an avid reader of the Daily Telegraph and the Liverpool Echo. From the Telegraph, we always knew the price of a box of Hake from Fleetwood Fish Exchange, from which we maintained bar charts etc and the weekly average price also in bar charts for a whole school year! Bizarre to say the least!

However, one activity from the Liverpool Echo has stuck me through all of my life stimulating an interest in world geography. The Echo carried a chart from Monday to Saturday showing where all Liverpool registered ships were in the world. These would tell you whether a ship had arrived, was expected, leaving all these glamourously named sea ports around the world like Accra and Brisbane. Mr. Taylor us allocated five ships each, which we traced on world map outlines having used an atlas to ascertain there exact location. I learned so much about world cities! When I showed my older brother, we both took up our own made to order fleets! Thanks for that Mr.Taylor!