Liverpool Daily Photo

Flyover near Dale Street

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:15:00 +0000

The Concrete Society Award winning flyover...

Memorial.

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:27:00 +0000

Memorial to road crash victims. Drive safe!

Dog poo

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:26:00 +0000

Dog poo on paths is nuisance everywhere. Here, local schoolchildren have taken action!

Saturday night

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:46:00 +0000

Early evening at the local shops. I liked the frame within a frame of the shop windows. Also the girls in rollers tell you that it's Saturday night...

What's on?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Lots. I liked the one for "four candles comedy club".

Snowy Day

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:38:00 +0000

A little snow today - schools closed, shops closing early. Rather daft really - most countries manage with a few centimetres of snow without too much fuss. This is the view from my front door...

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:48:00 +0000

The other day the Queen Mary II docked at Liverpool. The weathr was great, a rare calm and sunny day in amongst all the wind and hurricanes we've been getting lately. Here she is from a distance, showing the new Museum of Liverpool adjacent.

Theme Day: Under Construction

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:08:00 +0000

Back, after a while away - have moved house and a lot more besides. Hence the gap in snaps. However, this is nearly the ened of construction of the New Museum of Liverpool, which will no doubt house some Beatles stuff and some things about football... It will have features about the "people of Liverpool"...

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Snowy Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:04:00 +0000

Lots of snow this week - took a walk by the river front and got this pic. It's not like the river front in town which has a promenade and lots of people. The shore near Garston is a lot more natural, if you can ignore the airport runway not 1 mile away. Although the snow has kept many planes away lately...

The 39 Steps of Anfield

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:03:00 +0000

Freezing cold temperatures today so there've not been many people about. I rode north, right up to Anfield, home of Liverpool FC. The streets around the ground are pretty run down and halfway through being "regenerated" (knocked down). This is one house in that area.

Bus Station Seats

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:46:00 +0000

Liverpool's new bus station (in the middle of Liverpool One) is already showing signs of wear and it's only 3 years old...

Dockside Pub

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Another trip down the docks - this time in bright glaring sunshine. I found this pub, seemingly full of life and doing its best to attract passing trade. It was closed as it was only 10am (though there was probably a lock-in going on within).

Albert Dock

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:13:00 +0000

It was a lovely day today - just right for biking! En route I got this shot of Liverpool's new waterfront. This one is looking in with me back to the river, with a view of the new hotels and apartments that seem to have sprung up hereabouts...

Free Water for the People!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:04:00 +0000

As a cyclist who is tight with his money (!) I am always looking for places to fill up me water bottle. The usual one is at garages, where you can usually fill up where the car people pump up their tyres. Whilst free, the water only tastes OK. Cemetaries are usually a good bet as well as they have a standpipe for the graveside flowers. Allotments also usually have a tap somewhere in them but you normally need a key to get in. Museums, art galleries, shopping centres and other public buildings always have a toilet with a tap, but they get fussy when they see a sweating man leaning a bike on their precious wall/branch of Gap/priceless work of art and chase you away sharpish.

I was chatting to a bike mechanic the other day about the quest for "a tap in town". Most of my rides go through there and it is always good to have a source of water there to add to the mental network of taps around the Liverpool area. He told me about The Liverpool Spa (as it is known) and gave me directions - at the back of the Anglican Cathedral (we have two cathedrals in Liverpool - one for Catholics and one for, well, Anglicans) - in the gardens, left just before the mausoleum thing - use a leaf to get it to flow rather than spew...

Sure enough... The water tastes good too - filtered through sandstone and other such rocks. Much better than garage water... Almost worth the trip to taste it - not just for the humble cyclist...

And a shot of the cathedral it is behind - the Anglican. Massive - and you can climb the steps to the top of that big tower too...

Public Transport in Liverpool

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Two girls yak whilst waiting at the new bus station in Liverpool. Huge big wheel in the background adds to it. With apologies to Edward Hopper.

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Car Park in Town

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:17:00 +0000

Yesterday I had to go into town to get my eyes tested (results: still rubbish vision...) and collect a new vacuum cleaner (Oh! The life I lead...). It was too bulky to take the train so I had to drive and park underneath the shop in the new Liverpool One Shopping Megapolis. It was very clean and modern and, at 8 in the morning - usefully for me - deserted. Clean lines in the car park steps too. It was like ascending to the heavens, the path lit before your feet and pristine marble floors. Makes buying a hoover more pleasant anyway... And it's a lot better that the wee stained stairwells filled with drunks and dead-beats that the pebble-dashed concrete carparks of old used to be like. Though I would like to have snapped some of those dens of filth...

Down by the River

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:27:00 +0000

Just as some riverside parts of the city have been done up and regenerated, there are parts that haven't. This was taken on a bike ride to Manchester yesterday, near the Runcorn Bridge.

Art Deco at the top of Hardman Street

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:22:00 +0000

Destroyed by fire in the early 1930s and rebuilt soon after, The Philharmonic Hall is a good example of Art Deco architecture. Liverpool has some buildings in this style, although many of its greatest buildings were erected in a neoclassical style many years before when Liverpool's slavery/shipping was at its height.

This pic shows one of the staircases in said hall. There are two of them, one either side. And inside is one of the few remaining rising-from-beneath-the-stage organs in the world.

Knees up, Ma Brown

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:44:00 +0000

This was seen in the window of a Liverpool pub. One near the docks. I've been in the pub before - it has a great ceiling, far above the station of what is essentially a city-centre boozer.

Oo-er Missus!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:56:00 +0000

In the town centre, near the Law Courts, there is a statue of Queen Victoria. Pretty standard thing really. It used to attract 'youth', which hung around it. This was deemed 'a threat' and the area was fenced off. Then they cleaned the graffiti away and now it looks quite nice...

However, walk around the side and take a look at her sillouette. You will see (if you squint) why it is known locally as "Victoria's Knob"! This is not in any tourist book nor on any official Liverpool website. If I see tourists nearby I always approach with a smirk and ask "do you want to see the best view of that?". (It's her mace that creates the impression by the way).

Liverpool's Underground

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:16:00 +0000

Liverpool's transport network consists of busses trains and a small underground network which links into a larger overground network. Small, only 4 stations. Here is one of them, Lime Street.

Liverpool's Award Winning Concrete

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:53:00 +0000

Linking the bottom end of town with the business district (which is safely kept away from the rest) is a series of flyovers and raised walkways for pedestrians and vehicle traffic. Neither are pleasant, though both are busy with traffic, powered both by engines or foot. The walkway pictured is the step-free access to the pedestrian walkway known as Churchill Way, looking towards 151 Dale Street, a nice art deco building which now houses offices. Oddly, on one of the pillars holding the walkways up carries a plaque which declares that the structure won a Concrete Society Award when it was built in 1972.

City Daily Photo Skyline

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:02:00 +0000

It was my dad that noticed this. The skyline on the City Daily Photo home page is actually the Liverpool skyline. The two towers on the left are the Liver Buildings and the square building on the extreme right is one of the ventilation shafts for the Mersey Tunnels. The building to the right of the O is the Tower Restaurant, now being used by a local radio station, so called instead the Radio City Tower. It used to be a restaurant, and the top bit revoles so you can see all of the city as you scoff your scouse. Here it is in the early morning. The bulbous bit at the top is a mobile 'phone mast.

Ferry Termimal

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:31:00 +0000

Ok, I don't usually but this seems worthy of inclusion. One of the 'tourist things' you can do in Liverpool is take the Ferry Across The Mersey. The one Gerry & The Pacemakers sang so much about. It's acutally a rather nice trip, if you get a fine day and smooth river as you get good views of the city from somewhere that is not actually in it.. I was there around 8am this morning when nobody was around. The building is the new ferry terminal where you buy your tickets and related Liverpool paraphenalia. And they have paved the whole area a few years ago. Rather nice.

One of Liverpool's Better Pubs

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Worthington) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:00:00 +0000

One of Liverpool's better pubs is in the heart of student land so far enough away from the centre for the atmosphere to change enough for the difference to be noticed. Ye Cracke is old and attracts the penniless, loners, out of work window-cleaners and those who don't fancy a shiny night out on nearby Hardman Street. Part of the pub is listed, meaning that it is considered of such architectural merit that is cannot be modified or altered; The War Room is one of many nooks and crannies that make up the pub's interior, which is filled with cheap furniture and nondescript pictures. Cheap booze and cheap food. Neither very healthy. I once washed down a Full English breakfast with a treble vodka and dry ginger here. I'll not tell you the actual address to keep it unknown. Becoming well-known would ruin the place.