Down Our Street, the musical play by Wirral writer Brian McCann celebrating the life and times of Cammell Laird from the industrial revolution to the present day, makes its way back to Liverpool this coming April and now it finds a new home at the Royal Court Theatre.

For well over a century and a half, ‘The Yard’ was the employer of thousands upon thousands of people from the Wirral, across the water in Liverpool and beyond. The town of Birkenhead was built around the shipbuilding industry and most families, if not all had some connection to Cammell Laird.