Taking only photographs – leaving only footprints
The Port of Liverpool Building is a huge office building completed in 1907. It is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by Sir Arnold Thornely and F.H. Hobbs. Originally it was the headquarters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. It’s one of the largest and most iconic buildings around the Pier Head, a riverside location in the city centre. This photograph was taken in 2018 from George Parade looking across the Liverpool Canal link.
You can see some of the new modern architecture with the famous Royal Liver Building in the centre. On the far right is Museum of Liverpool which I still haven’t had a chance to explore inside. It had been many years since I last visited Liverpool. Knowing I wanted to return I also knew that parking in the city centre was expensive. One of the best ways to get into Liverpool is to take the ferry. Parking up at the free Seacombe Car Park it was a two minute walk from the car onto the ferry. The ferry only took 10 minutes to cross the river to the Liverpool Waterfront. This photograph was taken as we got back to the car in the mid afternoon looking east across the River Mersey.
This statue was one of the first things we saw when we got to Liverpool. Rather than driving into the city centre, we drove to Seacombe on the other side of the River. Free parking and a ten minute picturesque ferry across the River Mersey. We arrived in the heart of the waterfront. Getting off the ferry at Liverpool Pier Head Ferry Terminal . For those already in the city looking for this statue, it is at the end of Brunswick Street. This 1.2 tone bronze statue was sculpted by Andrew Edwards. The fab four are very detailed and a little larger than life size. We had to wait a few minutes for other tourists to have their photographs taken in front of the statue.
This is a close up detail of the eat side of the “bombed out church” in Liverpool, at St. Luke’s Church. As you can see this window is completely open to the elements. The reason this church is a burnt out, roofless shell is that it was bombed in May 1941. Although you can’t go “inside”, the church grounds are open to the public and definitely worth a visit if you’re passing.