QM2 arriving last tuesday morning, taken from top floor of our flats; note the similar colours of the chimneys and her funnel … It would be interesting to know if there are links between the former owners of the houses, which may have been within the grounds of much grander homes, since lost to the sea, and the Cunard line. Shipping line owners lived in Blundellsands back in the day. Indeed, the Captain of the Titanic lived only half a mile down the way in Waterloo and the Ismay family, once owners of her builders, the White Star line, owned a house on the same row; Cunard merged with White Star in 1934