Reasons To Go To Liverpool

I’m always being asked by people, why they should go to Liverpool.

Here’s a few reasons.

1. St. George’s Hall, which Nikolaus Pevsner described as one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world.
2. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, which is a superb neo-Gothic creation by Giles Gilbert Scott, an architect, who also created Britain’s red telephone box.
3. The Victoria Building of Liverpool University, which gives red-brick university its name and has some good art in its gallery and museum, including some by Freud, Turner, Frink and Epstein.  I saw an excellent special exhibition there of art by Stuart Sutcliffe, the so-called “fifth Beatle”
4. St.. Luke’s Church or as Liverpudlian’s call it the bombed-out church, which has been left as a memorial to the Second World War. This church was my late wife’s, C’s, favourite building in the city.
5. Oriel Chambers, which is the first modern building in the world.
6. The Walker Art Gallery or the National Gallery of the North. It is administered by central government, although many of the paintings came from local sources.  It also has one of the largest collections of pre-Raphaelite painting in the UK and the Liverpool School of the movement is well-represented.
7. Liverpool has more street statuary than any city in England with the exception of London. I particularly like Eleanor Rigby by Tommy Steele.
8. Superlambananas are fairly numerous.
9. The Pier Head, the Three Graces and the Mersey Ferries. Do remember that when a lady walks in front of the Liver Birds on the Royal Liver Building, and they flap their wings, she’s a virgin. They also flap their wings for honest men.
10. The Albert Dock, the Tate Liverpool and the other museums in that area.
11. Goodison Park.  The home of Everton along with Craven Cottage in London, is one of the most complete works of Archibald Leitch, the architect of many sports grounds in the UK.
12. Hope Street that connects the two cathedrals and also contains the most amazing pub in the world, the Philhamonic Dining Rooms.

I could add a few more, but I won’t.

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