Thoughts on Liverpool after visiting there today

[Shevek]

Spent about two hours in Liverpool city centre today whilst my partner was at a meeting. The city centre was full of radical grafiti and left wing posters (much more so than my home city of Manchester). Went to the radical bookshop 'news from nowhere' which was really interesting.

Near the bookshop on the back of an old shop in 6 foot high lettering was a slogan about climate change something like 'IT WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD IN 2007 DO YOU CARE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT' stuff like that I thought was pretty cool.

People generally seemed friendlier than manc. We went into one coffee shop where the lady behind the bar said we could bring our own sandwiches in. Mr Shevek found the taxi drivers friendly and knowledgeable

I like liverpool. Didn't like it in the central library. The library itself was ok a bit run down sixties affair but charming in a way. Just the library staff had to wear a uniform. I think library staff look better in civilian clothes.

Shevek

 

[Dillinger4]

I also like Liverpool.

 

[blairsh]

Boss city, shame about the scallys

 

[kabbes]

Brilliant. Now tell us all about your magical thoughts on Birmingham.

 

[toblerone3]

I've never been to Liverpool.

 

[kabbes]

I was in Gloucester the other day -- shall I give a report on that now?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Please do.

 

[Dillinger4]

I was in Gloucester the other day -- shall I give a report on that now?

Yes please.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'd like to visit Liverpool. Furthest north I've been was Chester in 1996. Twice.

Does that count?

 

[kabbes]

Well it was a town with some roads and there were people there, some of them were friendly and others were surly. It had a main station that had an odd platform that was divided into two platforms. And, er, there were shops but they were a bit run down.

Phew, this town report business is harder than it seems.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I was in Croydon very briefly on Tuesday, but I'll wait for the Gloucester update before I tell any more.

E2A - Oh! Well, it was a bit like Aylesbury, only more so. I got a cab at East Crydon station without difficulty and went to a meeting in Surrey.

 

[kabbes]

Do you think somewhere that Liverpool is giving a report on Shevek?

Spent about two hours in Liverpool city centre today whilst my partner was at a meeting.

Did he give you £20 to buy yourself something nice?

 

[krtek a houby]

I was in Croydon very briefly on Tuesday, but I'll wait for the Gloucester update before I tell any more.

Croydon's sponsored by Nestle, no? That's what it says on the platform...

 

[Dillinger4]

I was in Croydon very briefly on Tuesday, but I'll wait for the Gloucester update before I tell any more.

I think that was it. I was disappointed, but maybe that is all a report on Gloucester can manage.

 

[kabbes]

Not sure what else I can say about it. I was mostly in an office, which was much like an office.

The countryside around it is nice. It's a good place to be able to get to other places from.

 

[Dillinger4]

I can give you a report on Wigan, if you like.

But I live (very near) there, so maybe it wouldn't be the same.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Yes, do. I'm particularly interested in the library. What do the staff wear?

 

[Dillinger4]

Clothes. Mostly.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Clothes. Mostly.

A poor substitute, this.

It is as if you have taken Shevek's pen and dipped it in the mire.

 

[tim]

I like liverpool. Didn't like it in the central library. The library itself was ok a bit run down sixties affair but charming in a way. .

Shevek

70's actually, 1870's

 

[futha]

Liverpool is a good place. Lots going on and the people are generally very friendly. Just a shame about the accent

 

[Cribynkle]

Not sure what else I can say about it. I was mostly in an office, which was much like an office.

The countryside around it is nice. It's a good place to be able to get to other places from.

Ooh I was in Stoke today and it has the same going for it. When I was driving in along the A50 (500?) there was a buzzard sitting on one of the lights. So that was nice

 

[Dillinger4]

Liverpool is a good place. Lots going on and the people are generally very friendly. Just a shame about the accent

Scouse girls are the best.

 

[Dillinger4]

What else did you do in Liverpool today?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Liverpool has character ... even the soulless bits.

 

[Fedayn]

I rather like the place, after all Everton FC play there.

 

[Dillinger4]

One thing I really like about Liverpool, which you get a sense of when you get outside the city centre, is that the atmosphere of some of the areas reminds me of London.

I think it is when you see the big Victorian houses made out of yellow brick. I really like that, you don't get that sense in hardly any other places in the UK. In my opinion. It gives a real sense of place, a sense of importance (faded importance, maybe, but importance all the same), it makes feel like a real international city.

As Bernie said, it has character. Real character, that few other cities in this country can lay claim too.

 

[boohoo]

The warehouse reminded me of the London which has gone. Especially the large run down ones. It is an amazing city - some fantastic architecture and lots to see and do - i still have lots of places to see up there.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Aside from the Edwardian splendour of the Philharmonic pub, between the end of Hope Street and the Anglican cathedral (very impressive itself) some of the streets there have Georgian terraced housing that is the most extensive in England outside London/Bath. I used to work in the ambulance station at the start of Upper Parliament Street in the 1970s--now that really was a bit tasty, as an area...

 

[ivebeenhigh]

Well it was a town with some roads and there were people there, some of them were friendly and others were surly. It had a main station that had an odd platform that was divided into two platforms. And, er, there were shops but they were a bit run down.

Phew, this town report business is harder than it seems.

its the longest platform in england