All You Need is Love – 4 Days in Liverpool
Posted November 8, 2017
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I found music and love everywhere I turned on my recent visit to Liverpool. I fell in love with the sing-song accent of the friendly Liverpudlians and found this city a delight to explore. After all, this is the home of my teenage heroes, John, Paul, George and Ringo and they have left their mark big time. Landing at John Lennon airport, with a yellow submarine in front, is just the start. They are everywhere from The Fab 4 Restaurant, MacArtny´s Bar, The Beatle´s Story Museum, A Hard Day’s Night Hotel, The Magical Mystery bus tour and bronze figures of the famous foursome who defined a generation strolling down the waterfront. I couldn’t help but hum Beatles tunes the entire time I was there. Then there is the ferry that takes you across the Mersey River made famous by Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1964. A statue of the charming Cilla Black stands in front of the original Cavern Club. The city loves its music!

The Fab Four – forever in our hearts and on our lips!

Where it began all those years ago

Cilla Black in front of the Cavern, where she worked as a coat check girl before being discovered

ferry ‘cross the Mersey cause this land’s the place I love and here I’ll stay, Gerry Marsden, now 76, still lives in Liverpool

Fabulous views of Liverpool from the ferry
Liverpool is a port city and home to the Cunard and White Star Lines. The ill-fated Titanic and Lusitania were Liverpool ships. Excellent displays of both can be seen at the Maritime Museum. Liverpool is the port where over nine million people have left from to immigrate to Canada and the United States over the years. In fact, my great-grandparents, who boarded a ship in Hamburg, Germany, made a stop at Liverpool, no doubt to pick up more passengers, before crossing the Atlantic.

A sculpture commemorating the many families who left through the port of Liverpool to immigrate to the Americas and start a new life
The once busy docks have been cleaned up and now house trendy restaurants, interesting shops, the Tate Art Gallery and a number of excellent museums.

The Albert Docks

The famous Liver Building with the Liver birds on top, the official mascots of Liverpool

One of many superlambananas placed around Liverpool during the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008.

We had our lunch of fish finger butties in this old bus. What fun!!
Many excellent museums, art galleries, amazing architecture and great shopping make this city an ideal destination for someone like me. Apparently, it rains a lot there but we had some wonderful sunny days to explore.

St. Luke’s Church, bombed in 1941 was never restored. It is now a place for relaxation and remembrance. The scent of burnt wood still permeates.

The Liverpool Cathedral, Britain’s largest cathedral and the largest Anglican Cathedral in Europe, can be seen from almost everywhere in Liverpool.

Inside the stunning Lady Chapel

One of many stained glass windows

I discovered one of the best graveyards ever behind the church with the original mortuary above

A welcoming library with the names of well-known books listed on the walkway!

Inside the library, a Harry Potter-like reading room. I was in heaven.

A typical Liverpool scene. The Cunard building is in the background.

A juxtaposition of the old and new. The excellent Museum of Liverpool on the left.

The mythical liver bird keeping watch over the port
I am so glad I got to visit this amazing city! Have you been to Liverpool or know anyone who may have immigrated from the Port of Liverpool?
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November 8, 2017 at 11:25 pm
Have been many times both in my teenage and university years and post university too. I used to live in Chester and travelled to Liverpool most weekends for football! Then post university a gang of us would go to a well known Chinese restaurant for a banquet every Saturday night. The owner, Tony, would take our booking PLUS my wife’s shopping list for items she wanted from the Chinese supermarket across town. The bags were always waiting for us on arrival. We visited Tony recently who now runs his famous Yuet Ben in Frodsham after taking some friends from Denmark across the Mersey and a day at the Docks. A Chinese man with a full on scouse accent is quite funny!
November 9, 2017 at 2:48 am
Sounds like you have good memories of Liverpool. I noticed there was a large Chinatown but didn´t have time to explore. It would be amusing to hear a Chinese person speak with a scouse accent. Very clever business people.