Liver Buildings, Liverpool

Favorite thing: The Royal Liver Building on the waterfront in Liverpool was one of the first tall structures in the world to be made of reinforced concrete. Its architect was Liverpudian Walter Aubrey Thomas (1859-1934).

Favorite thing: The liver birds are a strange cross between an eagle and a cormorant - the sailor's lucky bird. Local tales relate that the female looks across the riverfront waiting for the sailors to return whilst the male faces the back looking towards the pubs!

If you enjoy this kind of info then you need to take the river cruise trip on the ferry!

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Favorite thing: Keeping walking past the Liver building, over a little bridge and you will come to the Titanic memorial. Its inscription reads " IN HONOUR OF ALL HEROES OF THE MARINE ENGINE ROOM" so at first you might not realise its referring to the Titanic ;-). It was originally designated as the Engine Room Heroes Memorial (RMS Titanic) but it was subsequently decided to honour all marine engineers and engine room hands lost during WWI and the (RMS Titanic) part of the inscription was not used.

Favorite thing: One of my favourite views of Liverpool is this skyline reflection of the Three Graces in the Canning Dock (just by Albert Docks).
The tall tower (of art deco design) is the ventilation shaft for the Mersey road tunnnel.
Taking it in sepia tones seemed to add to the impact. See more reflections in the travelogue.

Favorite thing: This building is called "The Liver Buildings". It is a beautiful buildings situated at Pier Head. I like the architecture of this building with a pair of Liver birds on top of the clock towers.

Built in 1911 for the Royal Liver Friendly Society, the Liver Building is still the Head Office for the Royal Liver Friendly Society.

Fondest memory: It is a place for a stroll along the water front, gazing at the beauty of these buidings.

Favorite thing: They say there are 3 graces in Liverpool: Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Builsing. They are vary noticeable building of waterfront scene and the most is Liver building.
They say many years ago, Livers, a kind of birds, stayed on a pool here – the name “Liverpool” is from it. Today people carved a liver, over Liver Building, flying in the sky.

Favorite thing: Completed in 1910, the Liver Building was one of the world's first mult-storey re-inforced concrete buildings. It is the home of the Liver Friendly Assurance Society. The clock faces on each tower, at 25 feet diameter are the lagest in Britain - London's Big Ben is just 23 feet diameter.

Favorite thing: I wish I'd noticed this when Laura visited Liverpool with me:

Canada Boulevard, running infront of the Cunard Building with its row of maple trees, is "decidated as a living memorial to the sacrifice, valour and industry of Canadians in the defence of freedom during the battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945
And in recognition of the special relationship that developed between Cananda and the city of Liverpool during those dark days"
This memorial stone was placed here on 15th May 1995 on the 50th anniversary.

Also on the Boulevard the stones in the pavemment bear the nnames of the ships.
One I particularly noticed was HMCS Charlottetown, Canadians who contributed to the victory on the homefront.