Well, soon it’ll be time to get the train out of town, so it’s time I jot down some final thoughts about my time here and push out some more snaps. A good place to spend a few days I’ve enjoyed my time here. Lots to see, decent sightseeing, interesting stories to uncover, good places…

Liverpool – oppressed, defiant, emotional, wild-hearted Liverpool – has a number of spectacular places of worship that seem to capture the passion and ambition of the city. Let’s visit the four most significant ones. As the city expanded in the 19th century, the many parish churches around the town just weren’t sufficient to host the…

Unless you were someone peaceably living your life somewhere in West Africa when you were kidnapped and led in chains to the stinking hold of a slaver, to be transported (if you survived) to a life of back-breaking servitude in a West Indian sugar plantation, making fortunes for Liverpool merchants, well with that slight caveat…

That sitcom from the Seventies was nearly right. There are indeed two Liver Birds, but one of them is male. Atop the Royal Liver Building they stand, one on each tower. She looks out to sea, representing the sailors’ wives watching over their menfolk and welcoming them home. Meanwhile, he looks landwards, over the city,…