Liverpool
What to see
You’ll find accounts of Liverpool’s tourist attractions, shopping, eating out etc at Visit Liverpool, Liverpool One and The Guide: Liverpool. Local links include:
● Anfield Museum
● International Slavery Museum
● Liverpool Cathedral
● Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
● Merseyside Maritime Museum
● Museum of Liverpool
● St George’s Hall
● Tate Liverpool
● The Beatles Story
● Walker Art Gallery
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “Tamworth followers leaving Goodison Park after a predictable defeat would have encountered a line of taxis. If they were in any doubt, this would have brought home to them how bloated the big-time has become. Football fans, once the target of mocking chants (‘Come in a taxi, you must have come in a taxi’) now routinely go home in one.”
● “St George’s Hall is described by no less credible an authority than Visit Liverpool as ‘one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world’. That puts it in the same bracket as Somerset House, the Arc de Triomphe and the Capitol in Washington. When did a Liverpudlian knowingly undersell his or her city?”
● ” I drew the line, however, at singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. Not after half a day spent traipsing lonely as a cloud through one of Liverpool’s less lovely suburbs.”
These are taken from the Liverpool and Everton chapters of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.