Thoughts on Liverpool after visiting there today

[Dillinger4]

Just reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Liverpool

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I've seen the Lutyens model for the RC cathedral, that would have been a wonder if they could have afforded to actually build it as designed.

Paddy's wigwam is ok though, nice and colourful inside, but I prefer the Anglican one.

 

[stereotypical]

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

Am glad you liked our city, be sure to come back soon. We do have a fair bit of lefty/radical stuff going on. Pretty much everyones dads a socialist here really.

Oh yeah and the central library is undergoing a massive refurb job thingy this year (£3 million apparently).

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I am from Liverpool although have been in London for 18years now
I like the buildings and I like the attitudes
when I asked my daughter if she identified with liverpool at all and asked her what she liked about it she said she liked all the shops in liverpool one I feel I have failed to pass on the cultural heritage of dissidence, cheap pubs, street arguaments and hopeless nostalgia that shaped my youth

I am back in Liverpool today cos it was my mum's 70 birthday

I used to like studying in the central library and didn't notice anyone wearing uniforms

something I have noticed again is that people say 'yeah' a lot when they are talking to each other

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[lang rabbie]

n the central library. The library itself was ok a bit run down sixties affair but charming in a way.

All those run down bits (constructed after the war after bomb damage behind the original facade) get demolished soon for a £50million PFI project to revamp the library.

I've not been impressed by the designs.

 

[boohoo]

I am from Liverpool although have been in London for 18years now
I like the buildings and I like the attitudes
when I asked my daughter if she identified with liverpool at all and asked her what she liked about it she said she liked all the shops in liverpool one I feel I have failed to pass on the cultural heritage of dissidence, cheap pubs, street arguaments and hopeless nostalgia that shaped my youth


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Didn't know you are from Liverpool!! I'm very fond of the place. Do we need an urban trip to Liverpool??

 

[tbaldwin]

I am going to Liverpool over easter. Need to book a guest house/hotel in the city or southport. Anyone have any recommendations of where to stay and where to go etc?

 

[1927]

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.

Gloucester has, or certainly had, the longest rail platform in the country. It sthe only remotely interesting thing to ever happen there.

Sorry just seen post#30!

 

[marty21]

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.

I've been to Gloucester 2 or 3 times, once i bought some boots there

true story

 

[Dillinger4]

I've been to Gloucester 2 or 3 times, once i bought some boots there

true story

 

[marty21]

other boot buying stories in Oxford and Bath

 

[boohoo]

I am going to Liverpool over easter. Need to book a guest house/hotel in the city or southport. Anyone have any recommendations of where to stay and where to go etc?

Stay in the city - the Walker Art gallery and the Tate. The Liver buildings and Albert Dock. The two cathedrals (check out the cemetry of the Anglican cathedral). Williamsons Tunnels (if open) Away day - Crosby beach for the Anthony Gormley figures and Port Sunlight for art gallery...

Wander up Bold street for the nightlife..

Yes all a bit arty...

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Didn't know you are from Liverpool!! I'm very fond of the place. Do we need an urban trip to Liverpool??

that would be

my daughters thinking of going to uni there (but more because she'd get her Nana to go her washing and feed her)

 

[toblerone3]

Do we need an urban trip to Liverpool??

This would be really good combined with a long walk in Liverpool.

 

[marty21]

that would be

my daughters thinking of going to uni there (but more because she'd get her Nana to go her washing and feed her)

my sister went to Poly there, she loved it

 

[toblerone3]

I'd like to see a whole load of Urbanites go on a long walk in Liverpool.

 

[tbaldwin]

Stay in the city - the Walker Art gallery and the Tate. The Liver buildings and Albert Dock. The two cathedrals (check out the cemetry of the Anglican cathedral). Williamsons Tunnels (if open) Away day - Crosby beach for the Anthony Gormley figures and Port Sunlight for art gallery...

Wander up Bold street for the nightlife..

Yes all a bit arty...

Afraid im not very arty...I do like looking at buildings though from the outside mostly. More interested in places to eat and drink etc. I like Chinese food and heard there are some good places in Liverpool any suggestions.

 

[sojourner]

Do we need an urban trip to Liverpool??

That would be ace

Could combine it with the Picasso exhibition, Peace and Freedom?

 

[innit]

I went to Sheffield once. It seemed to have some rather nice hills and nice buildings. There were some clothes shops - in fact I bought a pair of shoes! It seemed pleasant if a bit like lots of other places - it reminded me a little bit of Oxford city centre, which I know quite well.

My overwhelming impression was that it was very small. "Call this a city?" I snorted to myself as I boarded the train back to civilisation (via Doncaster).

 

[chainsaw cat]

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

Does that count?

Can you hold off coming again until the council have mended the walls and the rows? (the only 2 things that are unique about chester btw)

 

[el-ahrairah]

I took a cab through Liverpool to get to Bootle. Most of it looked OK, like a big city. But we drove through one of the roughest, most run down places I've ever seen. Bootle was OK too, but no-one talked to me in the street like I'd been told Northerners were given to do.

The best bit about the whole thing was all the Gormley sculptures on the beach near Bootle.

 

[sojourner]

Merseyside is an Objective One area for funding

It is Ob 1 because it is officially the most deprived area in the UK (or was, rather)

little factoid to explain a bit about why so much of it round here looks so fucking rundown

 

[Dillinger4]

Merseyside is an Objective One area for funding

It is Ob 1 because it is officially the most deprived area in the UK (or was, rather)

little factoid to explain a bit about why so much of it round here looks so fucking rundown

It all just looks normal to me.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Shevek visited Liverpool, but *is not around at the moment*...

 

[sojourner]

It all just looks normal to me.

Me too mate - just get used to it don't you?