Liverpool has long been an iconic city, now nominated European City of Culture and in the winter sunset light of December 30th 2006 (for five minutes at the end of a gruesome wet grey day) looked magnificent.
How should one react to Liverpool... ? I honestly don't know if I love it or hate it... But at least I enjoyed taking the photos..
The city that ran the Slave Trade when 2007 marks the bicentenary of abolition (for Christian response see http://www.setallfree.net/index.html)
The regenerated docks with the galleries, museums and cafes now a rather pleasant tourist attraction. http://www.albertdock.com/
The city of the Beatles and "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
Mersey Ferries - Home of the world famous Ferry Across The Mersey
Operates in the River Mersey, will take you on a journey past all the fascinating waterfront of Liverpool and Wirral, also available to hire privately for
Ferry 'Cross The Mersey
Fan site for Gerry and the Pacemakers includes news, discography, history, filmography, and
A city of two cathedrals, once strongly divided between orange and green... less so since the work of Bishops Sheppard and Worlock see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1260179.stm
And two football clubs The Reds http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/ and the Blues http://www.evertonfc.com/index.php both of whom regularly beat my team http://www.whufc.com/index.php
But it's also the city of the "Toxteth Riots" of 1981... of the Miltant struggles of the 1980s and of continuing poverty and deprivation... Lots of interesting research reports on
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