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Not The Only Reason To Go To Liverpool… But A Good One None The Less.
Arriving in
Liverpool with a minimum of fuss, I took a walk through the city to familiarise myself with the layout. It’s a city with some character that’s for sure!! Down the main street there is some classic architecture around such as
St George Hall and the museum just behind it, all over shadowed by another monument to Nelson.
A little around the corner and you hit
Mathew Street (if you haven’t heard of the street then surely you’ve heard of the places on it), where you find the
Cavern Club and all the Beatles memorabilia you can handle. The club is not the original unfortunately as that was closed down in the 70’s and was demolished shortly after, but it is supposed to be a good likeness to where The Beatles made their first big break.
Keep on walking and you’ll find yourself in one of the largest shopping centres in the world…
Liverpool One. Sprawling for miles it has everything you’ll ever need and more. Personally, I just used it as a cut through (sorry girls, shopping in something that
large is not my thing) to get to another of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Albert Docks is a complex of five-story warehouses surrounding five docks on the Mersey. It is the largest collection of protected buildings in the country and houses a range of museums and galleries from the Merseyside Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum to the Tate Liverpool Gallery. It also has
The Beatles Story, an audio-guided journey through the life of The Beatles. Beginning at the four of them in school (and I’m not talking about Ringo because he didn’t join the group until they started recording), it has the voices of Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon’s Sister, their manager, and others throughout their career and lives. Interesting to find out how they all met and with the first guitars of George Harrison (and maybe even John Lennon’s)/ on display as well as a full size recreation of Mathew Street (including the Cavern Club and the Grape Skin), Abbey Road Recording Studios, a Yellow Submarine, and the Imagine set that John Lennon used, it makes for an entertaining afternoon.
From Albert Docks back up to the city, I headed towards the
Liverpool Cathedral but
with failing light and way to late for admission, I only got to admire it from the outside.
Tomorrow is the last of England I’ll see again for a few days as I couldn’t find accommodation in the Lakes District as I would have liked , so instead I head to Scotland and it’s capital, Edinburgh.
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think." - Lawrence Durrell
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