Ferry Cross the Mersey (film) Ferry Cross the Mersey (film) Ferry Cross the Mersey is a 1965 musical film featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers. The film, directed by Jeremy Summers, was the first to be shot on location in Liverpool after the city's emergence into the music mainstream (which had previously seen only Frankie Vaughan, Russ Hamilton, Billy Fury and Lita Roza as stars). For authenticity, many scenes were shot in clubs near the home of Gerry and the Pacemakers' frontman Gerry Marsden. A scene on a ferry (the "Mountwood") on the River Mersey showed the docks as a backdrop. Marsden wrote nine new songs
Alexander Edwin Marsden 1865; member of the house committee from 1870, and chairman of the general committee from 1901. In 1898 Marsden was master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. He died at 92 Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth Common, London on 2 July 1902. Marsden published: He also edited in 1871 the fourth edition of his father's treatise on "Malignant Diarrhœa, better known by the Name of Asiatic or Malignant Cholera". In 1856 Marsden married Catherine, only daughter of the banker David Marsden. Alexander Edwin Marsden Alexander Edwin Marsden (1832–1902) was an English surgeon and cancer specialist. Born on 22 September 1832, he was