A little old wine drinker me!!

A guy sits on the fire escape outside the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, wine bottle in one hand and a fag in the other. Why is it still like this today, surely the world as more to offer them than this?

Fireworks over the Palm House

The annual lantern parade sefton park climaxed with a massive fireworks display. It was a fantastic event attended by thousands of people and we look forward to going next year.

Down hill all the way

The view fro the top of Duke St looking towards the liver buildings on the waterfront. You dont realise how much of an hill it is walking up from the city centre until you have walked it a few times, then you know.

View from the tower

This is the view of liverpool from the top of the anglican cathedral tower. After taking two lifts and climbimg 104 stairs to reach the top of the tower, the view is awe inspiring and well worth the effort.

A lost view

This view of the three graces of liverpool is unfortunately no more. For some ridiculous reason our wonderful planning department in the liverpool city council as decided to allow a 21st century museum to be built slap bang in the middle of it, in doing so changing one of the most famous waterfronts in the world forever.

Out of the darkness

This is the tunnel that leads down to the burial grounds in St James Gardens at the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool.It is quite a scary place really and the girls were quite scared and approached the tunnel with some trepidation. The interior of the cathedral is quite wonderful and I would recommend to anyone visiting Liverpool that it is well worth a visit.

Bridge over the River Mersey

After another beautiful autumn day in Liverpool, what better way to see it out than sitting on the banks of the River Mersey. I have loved doing this ever since my dearly departed grandad used to take me down to the pier head to see the big ships in port.This bridge on the runcorn widnes border is the only one that crosses the mersey, on a sad note you would think the local council would make more of a feature of it and light it up a bit more. A great end to the day however.

A day in the park

The weather today in Liverpool as been unusally warm for this time of year, so we opted for a day in the park. Calderstones park is not too far of a journey from our home,although it does get very busy,especially on a nice day.

Fields of Destruction

Arsonists have destroyed a childrens football facility in Speke, Liverpool. The buildings torched by vandals consisted of a social club and football changing rooms used by local children. This is the only facility in Speke that children can use to play football of a weekend and the children are now left without any recreational facities to play their football. Asbo orders are not enough to control these mindless idiots and unless something radical is introduced to control these lawless youths that are polluting our society and destroying neighborhoods then I fear that this act of destruction is little more than the tip of the iceberg. God help are young children.

The Beatles Terminal

Liverpool as never been a city that respects its history,or should I say we have never had a city council that does.First of all a total lack of foresight was shown in the demolishing of the cavern club, the birth place of the Beatles, although a new cavern as been built in the same place in Mathew St, its not the same. The same applies to the old airport terminal in Speke, it as now been turned into a hotel and although most people throughout the world can remember the famous news reels of thousands of screaming girls lining the balcony of the terminal building to welcome home the Beatles from a visit to America, there is no mention of the Beatles at the hotel,no rooms,no suites,no photographs no, just another part of our history gone without trace.

A penny for your thoughts

My youngest daughter stares into the water of the salthouse dock in liverpool, seemingly alone in a world of her own, I wonder what she is thinking about? I can remember when I was her age and we lived within a stones throw of the river mersey, my grandad worked on the big passenger ships that visited liverpool in those days and he would always take me down to see them arrive in port and I can remember that I would often stare into the river alone with my thoughts, in fact it is something that I still do to this day,I wonder if Saffron is doing the same?

New Liverpool?

Two images that reflect Liverpool as it is today and Liverpool as it was in the second half of the 18th century.

Liverpool was a major slaving port and its ships and merchants dominated the transatlantic slave trade in the second half of the 18th century. The town and its inhabitants derived great civic and personal wealth from the trade which laid the foundations for the port's future growth. Today it is full of new multi million pound developments and the regeneration of the city is quite staggering.

However whilst the city centre is benefiting from all of this the area that will forever be associated with the slave trade,Liverpool 8, continues to be a run down and under priveledged area, so how much as really changed?

Ferry across the Mersey

The mersey ferry looks tiny compared to the Queen Elizabeth 2 as she ferry's her passengers across the mersey. It is a shame when you realise that this is the very last time that we will see the grand old ship in the river mersey. The ship takes up most of the waterfont on the princess dock side and the funnel of the QE2 is almost as high as the liver buildings. liverpool will really miss the visits of the QE2.

The Liver Bird

After feeling really down yesterday about not being in Spain for the winter, today, I caught a glimpse of one of the Liver Birds that are perched on top of the royal liver building on Liverpool's waterfront. It reminded me of just how good it is to be in my hometown and how much I miss it when I am away, we may not get the weather that they have in Spain but we have humour, friendly people and above all we have the warmth of the scousers, what more can you ask for. The only problem is that it is still wet, cold and windy, cant have everything I suppose.

Forgotten

One could be easily imagine that this was an image from days long gone. However this stands on Liverpool's waterfont just 500 hundred yards from a new multi million pound ferry terminal. Soon to be demolished one more link to the past is destroyed to make way for the new Liverpool, capital of culture 2008.

Lost in Time

As Liverpool continues to benefit from being capital of culture 2008 and new buildings are going up everywhere, this old pier, standing on the River mersey serves as a reminder of of the past

Reflections of Liverpool

This image of Liverpool's Salthouse Dock as been awarded first prize in go create 08