LANDFALL (LCT 7074) DECONVERSION AND THE APPROACH OF THE END - ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY



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DECONVERSION
AND

THE APPROACH OF THE END


LANDFALL HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO SINK
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In late June of 2011 We were lucky enough to be contacted by businessman Stuart Goddard the director of the company approached  by Lord Goodhart who owned the Historic Warships Trust in Birkenhead. Stuart was appointed to remove the additional deck and added superstructures and return LCT 7074 to her original Wartime D-Day specification.

Stuart Goddard
Stuart relates his interesting story here

I was having a rummage in the attic the other day  and found some pictures of a maritime demolition job in Liverpool England. The work involved the dismantling of the former Seacombe ferry landing stage. As a result of being in the area Lord Goodhart asked me to price up some work which involved converting a Tank landing Craft back to D Day spec. She had been converted into a floating night club the "landfall" and lain in the Liverpool Docks for many years as the Hq. of The Merseyside Master Mariners Club a Night Club and became a well known tourist attraction. I won the contract to convert the tank landing craft back to her D Day specification as a tank carrier. She was formerly known as The Landfall  - a well known Liverpool nightclub. I have spoken to a previous owner George (Jud)  Evans and was sad to hear that she had sunk in Wallasey Docks. At the time I carried out the conversion work she was owned by Lord Goodhart who also owned the Historic Warships Trust in Birkenhead.

The work comprised the removal of a deck that had been added to make her covered This would of been the nightclub roof as the bar area was in the actual hold where tanks used to be carried.

The old concrete floors had to be taken out and these were in the form of a screed. A very clever self tipping skip was employed to remove all the debris from the hold and I wish I could remember the name of the maker as it was a clever bit of kit.

This corroded ramp was once lowered onto the D-Day beaches under heavy fire

My question is why do we leave an icon of Liberation freedom and democracy at the bottom of murky waters of East Float.

Jud Evans has a website that is trying to highlight the tragic and sorry plight of a once proud vessel lying forgotten and abandoned.To me it is no surprise as most people I meet seem to have the attention span of Goldfish. On the same dock sits U534 a former German wartime submarine. Which to be fair is an awesome sight. It portrays menace with every curve of its hull a true hunter stealthy sleek threatening.




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