LIVERPOOL CITY
Liverpool has vastly changed from the old industrial and port city of decades ago. Now it has a large focus on tourism with the area around Royal Albert Dock. We spent two days in the city and enjoyed a couple of tours and visits to art galleries.
View of Royal Albert Dock from our hotel room.
Another view from our room with the Museum of Liverpool to the left.
Royal Albert dock with Tate Liverpool the far end (temporarily relocated)
Liverpool Mountain is Swiss-artist Ugo Rondinone’s first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe. Inspired by naturally occurring Hoodoos (spires or pyramids of rock) and the art of meditative rock balancing, this 10-metre high sculpture stands within Mermaid Courtyard, outside Tate Liverpool on the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool.
Old tug boat and bus.
Liverpool Eye gallery in foreground with Liver Building in background left.
Statue of Billy Fury , Liverpool's "Elvis" whoo sadly died of a heart attack aged 42.
The Legacy sculpture is a statue of a young family that commemorates migration from Liverpool to the new world. It was given to the people of Liverpool by the Mormon Church as a tribute to the many families from all over Europe who embarked on a brave and pioneering voyage from Liverpool to start a new life in America. It is estimated that in total approximately nine million people emigrated through the port.
Sculpture - "Metal and Stone"
The worldwide eyesore of so-called "Love Locks"
Old 1950's style ice cream van.
A tribute to the working horses of the docks which pulled the goods carts.
Propeller from the Titanic sister ship Lusitania, sunk in 1915 by German u-boat with the loss of 1200 lives
The Museum of Liverpool.
Three masted schooner De Wadden which traded with the neutral Dutch during WW1
Ukrainian "superlambanana" The original Superlambanana was created by Taro Chiezo in 1998 to represent the common cargoes of sheep and bananas combined with an ironic warning about genetic manipulation.
Famous Liverpudlians on a superlambanana
The Beatles statue (Ringo is hidden)
Titanic memorial commemorating the 32 stokers and engineers who died below decks on the Titanic. The ship never visited Liverpool but the White Star Line (now Cunard) headquarters are nearby.
The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's "Three Graces", which line the city's waterfront.
Entrance to the Cunard Building
Two benches outside the British Music Experience (Mersey Docks & Harbour Board Building) representing the soundtrack of two of the Beatles records.
Mersey Docks & Harbour Board building
Doorway relief on Water Street
Dale Street
Liverpool Echo Newsagent shop
The Hillsborough memorial is dedicated to the 96 Liverpool FC supporters who died in a stadium crush in 1989
The Liverpool Empire Theatre where many stars have played over the years.
Entrance to the Birkenhead Tunnel.
Liverpool artwork at the entrance to Liverpool One shopping centre
View of Liverpool Eyes Gallery (BlacK) with the "Three Graces" behind
General view of the waterfront
Liverpool Pride arch
Special Liverpool letterbox. They were believed to have been created when the city’s mid-Victorian postmaster argued that boxes designed for the nation as a whole were not adequate to cope with the heavy postings experienced in Liverpool where – unlike London – the posting of newspapers as well as letters was allowed.
Entrance to The Beatles Story museum Royal Albert Dock.
Royal Albert Dock at night
The Rope Horse statue at the corner of Liver Street. Officially entitled " The Great Escape " this sculpture was fashioned in rope before being cast in bronze. It is an anatomically correct horse fifteen feet high and weighing four tons. At the horse’s tail a length of rope extends to the ground where a life-size sculpture of a man steps upon the rope 'forcing the horse to rear and apparently unravel itself in a bid for freedom'. This scene is said to reflect man's efforts to free himself of slavery.
The "Three Graces"
Japes Street station artwork
Posters James Street Station
Beatles statues on the exterior of A Hard Day's Night Hotel, North John Street.
Cool Britannia Shop, corner of Matthew Street.
Matthew Street, home of the Cavern Club.
Lovely lady with John Lennon....
The new Cavern Club.
Wall of fame, Matthew Street
Wall of fame, Matthew Street
Cilla Black statue, Matthew Street
George Martin produced The Beatles records on EMI Records.
Matthew Street wall of fame
Irish Bar, Temple Court.
Mural by artist Smug in Harrington Street
The White Star bar in Rainford Gardens
Sunset at Salthouse Quay
Old bus Salthouse Quay
Salthouse Quay
Salthouse Quay
Albert Dock sunset
Albert Dock
The Beatles made from sweets (candy(