No way… are they filming another movie? Everywhere we go in England they are filming movies. What’s the deal?

Yes, that looks like a movie camera. And that is a real bobbie closing off the street.

And that is a 1940’s era American police car.

Turns out that this street in Liverpool has buildings that look more like New York in the 1940’s than anyplace in New York. So they kept closing down the street, and resetting all these old cars and all these movie extras and the two soldiers, and making them relive the same moment over and over.

We must have watched the same cars drive down the street, the same people walk down the sidewalk, and the same two soldiers cross the street a dozen times. This was just like that scene from the James Bond movie we saw being filmed in London!!!

This movie is, supposedly, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant… neither of which we saw, just so you know… and is about Meryl as a rich lady who wants to sing opera but is terrible and nobody has the nerve to tell her. Mollie tells me the movie is called Florence Jenkins. You could Google it.

But it was fun watching this bit of old and new history rewind and replay over and over again.

And I did tell you that I have a real talent for being wherever something unusual is happening anywhere around me without even knowing it was happening in advance.

As another note of historical interest, I think that big building on the right is the back side of the Cunard Line headquarters. You might recognize the name. It is a huge cruise ship line and they owned the Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic. They also built both the Queen Mary and the Queen Mary 2.

The building was really beautiful on the other side, and I might have a picture of it to share in the next post… wait… is that guy not wearing socks? That seems historically inaccurate.

Anyway, I hope to see you later for the end of this part of our adventure.