On the west side of the Cunard Building in Liverpool lies this Memorial dedicated to Cunard employees who died in the Great War and World War 2. A figure of Victory atop a column with a depiction of a boat extending either side of the column halfway up. “Pro Patria 1914-1918, 1939-1945”:-

This was where the ITV programme This Morning used to be broadcast from. There was a weather map floating on the dock’s surface.

Weather Map photo (from Wikipedia) taken by Mike Pennington:-

Many years after its weather presenter spent his mornings leaping from Britain to Ireland and back again he was prosecuted for child abuse, found guilty and jailed. Liverpool is most likely glad ITV moved from there some time ago.

Albert Dock, Liverpool:-

The dock is now home to a variety of pleasure boats while the old warehouses on the docks are filled with shops and eateries.

Boat in Albert Dock:-

View of and from Albert Dock, Liverpool with Museum of Liverpool, Cunard Building and Royal Liver Building in the background:-

The Beatles song about Penny Lane in Liverpool makes it sound quite urban but at the end where the famous street sign is it’s leafy. (That’s our tour bus parked at the side of the road):-

Street name sign. (Not original. They keep getting nicked):-

More leafiness but beginnng to get built-up:-

Still more buildings:-

Mostly residential but a few workplaces. Some of the workers wave at the tour bus:-

There’s a barber shop in this one (but I didn’t see a banker waiting for a trim):-

End of Penny Lane. The white-painted building is the Penny Lane Hotel:-

Not Penny Lane but instead the road where Paul McCartney was brought up. (The bus isn’t allowed to go along it as there’s no suitable turning place):-

The Beatles: Penny Lane

…. because I’ve been to Strawberry Fields. (Or more correctly it seems Strawberry Field.):-

Behind these gates was apparently a children’s home and though Wikipedia has John Lennon climbing into the place to play with them the guide on the bus tour our friends had booked said he would play truant from his own school hoping to catch a glimpse of girls beyond the trees behind the gates.

The present gates are replicas:-

When Lennon’s parents’ marriage fell apart he was taken in by his Aunt Mimi.

This is her house. They had a reasonably comfortable existence here you’d think:-

Note the notice on the gate post and the blue plaque on the house:-

In Liverpool reminders of the Beatles are never far away. Sgt Pepper flower bed:-

Memorial plaque:-

The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever

Opposite the Cavern Club, Liverpool, is a Wall of Fame:-

The statue of a Beatle (John Lennon from the looks) lounges by the Wall of Fame, here accompanied by two tourists:-

Each brick has inscribed on it the name of an act which has performed at the Cavern Club. Wall of Fame plaque:-

Some of the commemorative bricks:-

The internal walls of the club are covered by memorabilia. Not only of the Beatles:-

but also other rock and rollers:-

In my last “Art Deco in Liverpool” post I mentioned John Lennon.

He was of course one of the four Liverpool lads who were probably the town’s most famous export. (Export in the sense that their music went all over the world.)

I refer to The Beatles. A (larger than life size) statue of the four stands near the Liverpool waterfront:-

It is difficult to move in Liverpool without stumbling over something to do with the four. This is the entrance to Matthew Street wherein lies the Cavern Club where they had a residency back in the day. (Note the establishment known as Sgt Pepper’s to the right):-

The club is not the same as the one The Beatles used to play in. Part of the original no longer exists and the entrance has been moved. Below is the old Entrance to Cavern Club. The Cilla Black statue to the front commemorates her stint as a cloakroom attendant at the establishment:-

New entrance:-

Entering the venue proper requires going down a fairly steep set of stairs:-

The arched interior is a little claustrophobic:-

I have more photos of the Cavern Club but this is enough to be going on with.

Another impressive Art Deco theatre in Liverpool. Again my photo was snatched while passing on a bus tour:-

The photo below is from the theatre’s Wikipedia page:-

This view is from the John Turner Construction Group who have been given a refurbishment contract:-

And this is from manchesterhistory.net. The link has a few more pictures showing details of the building:-

This is clearly not a building from the 1920 or 1930s but it definitely has Deco style much like the MI5/MI6 building in London or the UCAS building in Cheltenham.

Viewed from a bus tour.

A Chinese restaurant, very minor deco:-

“The Lighting Centre,” but it seemed to be closed:-

The building below is not strictly in Liverpool as it’s across the Mersey but I photographed it from Liverpool. I was told it’s a fume extraction tower for the Mersey Tunnel:-

These photos were shot from one or other of the two bus tours we took in Liverpool.

This looks like a former Burton’s* but may not be. It’s certainly Art Deco:-

A former Woolworths is to its left (right as you look at it.)

Former Woolworths closer view:-

*Edited to add:- I looked at this again and realised it was more like an old cinema so I researched old Liverpool cinemas and discovered it was the ABC Lime Street, see here.