We continued our self-guided walking tour of Liverpool.
Statue (also by David Webster) of George Harrison |
Statue of Paul McCartney |
Statue of John Lennon, which was technically at the corner of N John St and Mathew Streets, but the statue we sought was missing |
The statue of a relaxed John Lennon was supposed to be in front of the Cavern Club Wall of Fame |
This Wall of Fame recognizes the bands and individuals who appeared at the original Cavern Club between 1967-1973, requiring about 1,800 bricks |
The Fab4 in mosaics on Mathew Street |
Kent at the site of the original entrance to the Cavern Club |
Tamiko with statue (2017) of Cilla Black who started her 'career' in the cloakroom of the Cavern Club, and went on to have two number one hits |
Cavern Walks is advertised as a mini shopping mall, but it was quite empty except for more Beatles statues (1984, by John Doubleday) |
We were looking for murals done by Cynthia Lennon (but were misled because she had done exterior terracotta reliefs); instead Cavern Walks had this pop-art Yellow Submarine mural (2009, by Andy Prior) |
Also a Yellow Submarine mobile |
Tamiko with Eleanor Rigby (1982, by Timothy Steele), a tribute to All the Lonely People (KSS) |
Former Bank of Liverpool (1881-1882, by George Enoch Grayson) is now the Sir Thomas Hotel |
The Sir Thomas Hotel is host to colorful plastic pigeons, meant to be a deterrent to real live pigeons |
Royal Insurance Building (1896-1903, by James F Doyle in Neo-Baroque style) now houses the Aloft Liverpool Hotel |
Liverpool Town Hall (1749-1754, by John Wood the Elder, 1785 extension, after a fire it was rebuilt in 1795 with the addition of a dome by James Wyatt) |
Atop the dome is a statue (1799, by John Charles Felix Rossi) representing Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom (KSS) |
Exchange Newsroom War Memorial (1924, by Walter Gilbert) is dedicated to 26 newsmen and their sons who gave their lives during World War I |
This telephone booth contains a defibrillator |
Martins Bank Building (1927-1932, by Herbert James Rowse) |
Tower Building (1906-1910, by Walter Aubrey Thomas) is faced with white glazed terracotta made by Doulton |
Jimmy, the Dock Horse (2020, by Faith Bebbington) represents horse-drawn boats that came by canal, bringing cargo to the docks starting around 1740 |
Homeless Jesus (2019, by Timothy Schmaltz) |
MV Derbyshire (1976 ore-bulk-oil ship from Liverpool) Memorial (2018) commemorates the lives lost when the merchant ship MV Derbyshire sank in the South China Seas during typhoon Orchid, on 9/9/1980 |
Liverpool Blitz Memorial (2000, by Tom Murphy) honors the 1,700 residents of Liverpool and Bootle who were killed in the Blitz of 1940-1941 |
We walked back onto the Viking Venus for lunch.
Next: Liverpool III.
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