Day 28 - Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - Liverpool England

 

When you think Liverpool, you have to think The Beatles as long as you're over 50.

We docked at 7 am this morning and had a 9 am tour which was a bus ride around Liverpool.  Liverpool was where the Titanic was built so there are memories around the city memorializing the Titanic.

The Royal Liver building. The iconic building denoting Liverpool...to the world.  Built in 1911 & once Europe's tallest building, this iconic office tower has domes & clock.

Liverpool Parish church, historic church features a spire once used for shipping navigation.

Driving through the streets.  Interesting buildings that caught my eye.

If you saw the movie, Hunt For Red October, this building was "Moscow".

Queen Victoria monument 

Library we went into

Radisson Red hotel.  A neat looking building 

"St George's Hall is a building opened in 1854, it is a Neoclassical building which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England

Queen Victoria 

Wayne found his bench early today.

We were to stop at a church, their largest Roman Catholic Church, however there was an event that didn't allow us access.

The entire top is all stained glass.

Liverpool Cathedral, Anglican church.   Large 20th-century, Church of England with the world's highest Gothic arches.

Sculpture, A Case History, otherwise known as ‘The Hope Street Suitcases’ by the locals, went on display on the pavements of Hope Street in 1998 and have lived there ever since.  It memorializes the many immigrants who passed through the city of Liverpool on their way to start a new life in Ireland and North America.

We went in a short stroll to look at several of their famous buildings and made a stop in their library.

New section of the library 

What a library should look like. See the spiral staircase and the ladders to get from one level to the next.

Our guide wanted to show us their new and old sections as well as an original Audobon Society book.  It was enclosed in glass and the book was reported to be worth £20 million (pounds).

More touring by bus and our final stop was at the Royal Albert Dock.  A group of buildings repurposed as shops and restaurants.  

Interesting signage on a trash can

Wayne and I had lunch, having to try their Fish and Chips.  

Should have split it!  I ate the fish, left the breading.

I left Wayne at that point and he walked back to the ship while I wandered the shops. I had also bought a ticket to the Beatles Story, a tourist trap of sorts but it did hold a good amount of Beatles memorabilia.  

This was made from jelly beans

Floor painting of teenagers screaming for the Beatles 

Original Sargent Pepper costumes 

The White room mock up from John Lennon's home.

Pictures on the walk back to the ship 

Memorial to the Marine Engine Room Heroes.  Monument commemorating the 244 engineers who lost their lives in the 1912 Titanic disaster.

Lambs and Bananas, scriptures all over the city attempting to point out the problem with the dangers if genetic engineering.  Developed specifically for Liverpool by a local sculptor as both the banana and lambs were common cargo for Liverpool.

All the fences along the River Mersey had locks attached to them.   I've seen this in Aslustrua and was told it was a French tradition as well.

More pictures from the bus.  This is as we entered Chinatown.  

Just some typical buildings in Liverpool 

I think they need their chimney cleaned

He found another bench.

The Empire theatre where Broadway shows are put on.

And another bench

All in all, a good day.  Tomorrow, Belfast Ireland and a part of the UK and not the Republic of Ireland.