Titanic at Merseyside Maritime Museum As one of the shipping hubs of Britain in the last century or so, and home of the mighty Cunard, Liverpool has many connections with Titanic. As the 100th anniversary nears, scouser memories, memorabilia and moments on the disaster are brought together in the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It is a [...]
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Tales from Titanic Cities: Titanic Belfast & Liverpool
Tales of Titanic Belfast & Liverpool After our last excursion exploring Legoland and the world of Harry Potter I was tickled by this Lego Titanic scene. Of course it’s topical right now, exactly 100 years after the luxury liner launched and sank. And being a bandwagon sort of family, of course we’re jumping on it. [...]
Where there’s tea there’s hope: Leaf Liverpool
Leaf Liverpool – Afternoon Tea on Bold Street ‘Where there is tea there is hope’ says the sign in Leaf There is a delicate smell of flowers wafting from one of five glass teapots in front of me. Whole rose buds bob about in it, their petals grasping a tight pink centre, with the sphere [...]
I lost my tooth to art: Palaces at The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Palaces by Gina Czarnecki Hannah stands in front of a crystal resin sculpture that twists and spikes towards the white cubed ceiling. In her hand is a neatly wrapped milk tooth in a little silver bag. “Where do you want to put it?” says the sculpture’s creator, Gina Czarnecki. Adding a redundant body part to [...]
The Old Dock Tour Liverpool
The Old Dock Tour Liverpool Liverpool is a city with many well known sons. From Bill Shankley in the Anfield spin off gallery Reds, to John Lennon lounging outside The Cavern Club, their images are crammed into the urban space. Look behind the Liverpool Big Wheel, down near the Albert Dock, and you’ll currently see an [...]
Liverpool: The Friendly City
Liverpool: The Friendly City “When they say ‘Ello love, you alright?’ – It’s like nothing else.” Liverpool writer Carla Lane (quoted at the Museum of Liverpool.) As a child growing up as a ‘woollyback’ (i.e. someone who lived just outside Liverpool), I wasn’t aware people in Liverpool were different. Although I do remember that getting [...]
Sleeping with The Joker
Sleeping with The Joker A famous villain is in town. And I don’t mean in the panto. In Liverpool’s Salthouse Dock, strings of fairy lights pick out red lips and a white face, swaying and twitching in the black. Sirens blast past on the main road, adding to the urban noise. We walk down an [...]
Liverpool Wonderland: Like a dream but better
Liverpool Wonderland: Like a dream but better… Fairy lit Christmas trees process down the aisle along with choristers, ministers, and The Pope. That’s according to Cameron, who whispers it loudly as he passes. The rest of us smile politely at the Bishop of Warrington. The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool (not the wigwam shaped one – [...]
I’m taking the kids back to my Liverpool childhood
I’m taking the kids back to my Liverpool childhood It all starts online, like most things do these days. I am looking for accommodation for a pre-Christmas city break. I don’t really have a location in mind. Barcelona perhaps? Or Edinburgh? Wimdu, the site I’m searching, has around thirty thousand properties spread across the world, [...]
The Wirral, the Mersey ferry and more
Ferry cross the Mersey It’s a shock when it happens; the sudden loss of traction, feet spinning wildly, bike wobbling like jelly, the struggle to get feet out of toe clips before toppling over. I was 100 yards ahead at the time but there was no mistaking something was up behind me. “Stuart, Stuart. Stop. [...]
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