Året rundt med RandiAa: Liverpool - Part Three: The Day of the Great Photo-Walk-1

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Liverpool - Part Three: The Day of the Great Photo-Walk-1 - 30th July 2011

Chow's House - Nelson Street -Photo:RandiAa©

Saturday 30 July
Photo Walk
This was to be the day of the great Photo Walk. We were ten joining: Russell, June, Kirsten, Robert, Kristin, Bodil with husband, son and daughter and me.
The day's busy programme in short:
Photo Walk with PUB-visit (in capital letters because the PUB was marvellous)
Shopping and testing the pulse of Liverpool by myself
Evening walk with the "group" and late dinner.
It turned out to be a marvellous photo-walk which Russell had planned for us...the warm and sunny weather was also ordered for the walk.
Retrospectively I see my Photo Walk pictures seem to be in the fields of: Churches, Pubs/Restaurants, Architecture including doors and Street-life
We started out from The Nordic Church, and an observant Robert noted something interesting there on the church-wall, while we were waiting for all to turn up. A clear evidence of child labour in industrial England. Children were used in great numbers in for example brick-making - notice the prints of small child-fingers on this handmade brick in the church-wall - there were many of them:


Photo:RandiAa©

This gave us something to think about while we headed towards our first stop: colourful Chinatown. Liverpool has the first Chinatown established in Europe. To day there are lots of nice Chinese restaurants, Chinese takeaways, and exotic groceries in many Chinese supermarkets. The Chinese population consists of about 10,000 Chinese residents.

Photo:RandiAa©

We left Nelson Street, and the dome of the Blackie behind us. (Former Great George Street Congregational Chapel called Blackie, short for the Black Church because of smoke and dirt over a hundred years made it black and dirty. It was cleaned in the 1980's but the "name lingers on".)

Photo:RandiAa©

Next on our route, not far from Chinatown Liverpool Anglican Cathedral dominates the landscape. Also the bells of this Cathedral are impressive - the highest and heaviest bells in the world - they have even played Imagine:

Photo:RandiAa©

Climbing stairs and going by a couple of lifts we are 101m above ground floor level and 150m above sea level - and guess if the view was panoramic - Liverpool with parks, landmarks, buildings with great architecture and roads was a wondrous sight:

River Mersey - view from Cathedral Towe - Photo:RandiAa©

Photo:RandiAa©

Metropolitan Cathedral - view from Tower - Photo:RandiAa©

Canning Street - Photo:RandiAa©

I saw all the fancy doors from up-above - such doors that fascinate me, I decided that I would take my little private "door-walk" when down in that street.

Women's Hospital - view from Cathedral Tower - Photo:RandiAa©

Burbo Bank Windfarm ghostly in the distance - Photo:RandiAa©

Photo:RandiAa©

But after a photo session up there, I climbed down to 67m above ground floor to see by myself the highest and heaviest (32tonnes)ringing peal of church bells in the world:

The impressive bells of Liverpool Cathedral - Photo:RandiAa©

After the climbing of the Tower, we had a nice sit-down outside the church-wall. And we could admire the Greek Revival in Architecture viewing The Oratory and St.James's Cemetary

The Oratory - former chapel at St.James’s Cemetery - Photo:RandiAa©

Then I went for the doors:

Canning Street - Photo:Russell©

Here comes some of the doors:

Canning Street - Photo:RandiAa©

Also see - Liverpool - Part One: THURSDAY JULY 28TH
Also see - Liverpool - Part Two: FRIDAY JULY 29TH
Also see - Liverpool - Part Three: SATURDAY JULY 30TH - The Great Photo-Walk 1
Also see - Liverpool - Part Four: SATURDAY JULY 30TH - The Great Photo Walk-2
Also see - Liverpool - Part Five: SATURDAY JULY 30TH - The Great Photo-Walk-3

Also see - Liverpool - Part Six: SUNDAY JULY 31ST - My last day in Liverpool

Doors in Liverpool - a set on Flickr -Photo:RandiAa©