Article: A lifetime's love of the sea; Merseyside maritime artist Ted Walker is celebrating a double triumph, with his first book and the first exhibition of his work in Liverpool. Peter Elson reports.(News)

Byline: Peter Elson

WHEN maritime artist Ted Walker's great grandfather, Fergus Gowland, captained his sailing ship into Liverpool during the 1850s, he was met by his wife Isabella with their baby daughter, Annie, who travelled down from Hartlepool.

"It was so early in the age of railways that they must have practically travelled by Stephenson's Rocket," chuckles Ted.

According to family legend, when Capt Gowland was ready to go on leave, the family disembarked from the ship in Liverpool docks, and Customs&Excise checked all the crewmembers, but not Mrs Gowland.

This was just as well, as the good captain had all his contraband tobacco ...

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