DEC 6, around and about: Liverpool, 2

 a) Review of material posted on December 6 in previous years ...

2020: Ontario nostalgia, art installations, T.O. (photo-collage)  
2021: numbers and counting, sextet (illustrated poem)

2022: American satire, honest truth (poem) 
2023: pinkos (forward thinkers), gamophobic socialist (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Dec 6, 2024): 

Continuing from an earlier post. Click HERE.

view from our hotel (rain prevalent),
a renovated brick building overlooking the Albert Dock

shipbuilding here suffered a major setback
with increasing length of passenger cruisers and warships 

tourism , aided by the football season, proceeds year round

local names are sometimes influenced by Welsh,
sometimes are just odd

For example, the Merseyside Rail service makes stops, among others, at the villages of Port Sunlight, Bromborugh Rake, Eastham Rake, Hooton and Overpool. 

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Catholic

an immense space, but no seating

Liverpool Cathedral, austere classic-style Anglican church,
one of the largest such buildings in the world

Merseyside Maritime Museum
(Liverpool has quite a few museums)

shipbuilding tragedies outlined
sad ramifications, indeed, for the local shipbuilding community

reaction to the torpedoing of the "Lusitania"

"piping hot": explanation

 

London to Manchester Railway, 1830,
the world's first inter-city train service

Lego constuction at Liverpool museum

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