Mon 24 July 16° Ferry Cross The Mersey to Liverpool

Our quiet patch turned into a bit of a race track.....Long straight road...also very windy so got a bit of battering last night.

Plan A drove 3 miles to Woodside Ferry Terminal....Notice up saying Ferry Services suspended till further notice. Buggar!
Plan B drive through tunnel to Liverpool Marina.
But wait....Tony's patience pays off again.....the sign was for yesterday as it was so windy. If we wait till 10am they will know if the ferries are running again today.  Yeahhhhh!
Drive to Seacombe Terminal and get free parking. Got there but just missed the 10.20 next one in an hour. So had  £5 breakfast while we waited.

Ferry  Cross the Mersey ✔
Hop on hop off bus ✔
Anglican Cathedral ✔
Catholic Cathedral ✔
The Cavern Club ✔
Liverpool ✔

Apparently John is holding 2 acorns in his hand as a symbol to world leaders to plant trees for peace, only Canada and Israel did.

 

The largest Chinese arch outside China, donated by twin city Shanghai

The last remaining art deco toll gate into the tunnel, now only pay one way.

The Anglican Cathedral

Shop with coffee bar upstairs inside the Cathedral

The architect of the Cathedral also designed the British Telephone Box

Lady Chapel that got hit by a bomb in tge war and it bounced out, leaving little damage.

 

The school where John and George went Paul opposite was purchased by Sir Paul and turned into Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and donated to the city.

Catholic Cathedral

This was the first design but at 27million it was deemed too expensive. So they built the existing Cathedral but then realised the bells would shatter the glass walls, so the built a concrete wall in front to house the bells.

The bombed out church left as a memorial to the 4000 that died.

 

The guide on the hop on hop off bus, provided us with a wealth of information including, the fact that it is 2nd to Bath for Georgean buildings,  2nd to London for listed buildings and was the 2nd most bombed city in the war after London because of the docks and shipping port,  the photo of the bombed out church was left as a memorial to the 4000 that died.

And a fabulous dry, sunny day so see it all on, a great city, what a day, we drove back to Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton car park and decided to go out for dinner to finish off a perfect day.

Went to Weatherspoons,  I had Lamb shank and Tony had flame grilled chicken, pork ribs and onion rings.....definately would not do any of that in Bessie' s kitchen haha. That and 3 pints for £20.

Drove back to water front which was full of moho's so adjacent to that another grassy area and a pitch and put with few moho's there so we joined them.

Thank you Liverpool.....it was grand!