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Liverpool lost its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site last year it was felt the newer developments on the riverfront were not in keeping with the history of the city. I tend to agree with UNESCO the authorities in the city have allowed some pretty awful new buildings .
However there are still some wonderful buildings particularly at Liverpools Pierhead a trio of magnificent early twentieth century buildings built on the site of the former George's Dock and are referred to as "The Three Graces":
On the far left stands the Royal Liver Building, built between 1908 and 1911 and designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas. It is a grade I listed building consisting of two clock towers, both crowned by mythical Liver Birds. The birds are now the symbol of the city and are worn on the shirts of Liverpool football club. The building is the headquarters of the Royal Liver Friendly Society. In the centre of the shot is the Cunard Building, constructed between 1914 and 1916 and a grade II listed building. It is the former headquarters of the Cunard Line shipping company. Finally on the right is the Port of Liverpool Building, built from 1903 to 1907 and also grade II listed. It is the former home of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
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The more than life-sized Beatles statue (2015) facing Liverpool's Pier Head is dwarfed by the "Three Graces" in the background, (the somewhat baroque-ish Royal Liver Building of 1911, the Cunard Building of 1917 in its Italian renaissance style, both outside this image) and the Port of Liverpool Building of 1907, (Edwardian Baroque). Together with a couple of museums and the Tate Gallery on the Pier Head, this assemblage tells the story of Liverpool's considerable maritime and mercantile prowess and its international cultural importance. Interestingly, I found the "spirit" in this attractive city to be decidedly unpretentious and egalitarian through and through. Fuji X100F.
Liverpool Sunrise........I'm going to be able to walk New Brighton to Secombe blindfolded by the end of the month!
Bob Mould, Jason Narducy, Jon Wurster and Dave Grohl for your listening pleasure......
I was planning a morning trip to Crosby to have a go at Anthony Gormley's Another Place. Driving up The Wirral to the Mersey Tunnel made me have a rethink as there was no way I'd have been able to see anything. The only places I could think of to try and get above the fog were Everton Brow and the Princes Dock multi-storey car park.
Everton Brow overlooks the whole of Liverpool city centre but probably isn't the most advisable place to be wandering around in the dark on a foggy morning so I made the decision to try the car park. This wasn't without risk either having been refused entry several times before by security and I didn't want to pay £9 for two hours parking in case I wasn't above the fog. However, I was prepared to try a little bribe and bought a coffee from 'Bean' coffeeshop which occupies one of the retail units at the base of the car park in the hope if challenged they'd readily accept.
When I entered the foyer the blind was down on the security room so I pressed for the lift and nervously hit the top floor button. A couple of flights of stairs to the roof parking area slowly revealed the tops of many of the iconic skyline buildings poking out above the fog below. I sat for half an hour drinking the coffee and smoking too many roll ups as it started to get light and the city began to come alive with lights coming on and the traffic beginning to build.
The fog was swirling between the buildings and eventually began to clear enough to reveal a nice sky and this was the scene that presented itself when it was finally light enough to see some colour.
Superb morning with conditions I doubt I'll ever see again. Would I recommend it? Probably not as I was convinced I'd be confronted by security any minute.
Was it worth the risk? Absolutely, though it was wrong on so many levels....
HSS!
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. - Socrates
2015 09 13 150532 Liverpool Photo Walk 1PM
As I was walking yesterday through pretty W.H. Vliegenbos and admiring a Spring pond, suddenly there it was, Beautiful European Peacock Butterfly. First called generically Aglais by Johan Wilhelm Dalman (1787-1828); earlier it went by the generic Papilio, used for many Butterflies. 'Papilio' is probably ultimately derived from a Proto-Indo-European word - 'pal' - meaning something like 'shake', 'shaking'. The reduplication to 'papilio' can be rendered, I think, into English as 'flutter', 'flutterer'. Aglais io is not very particular where it'll flutter as long as there are nectar-producing plants or water nearby. And such there were in the pleasant wood.
'Aglais' does not belie its name. Aglaea, from which it's derived, is one of the three Classical Graces, who boasted great splendor and brilliance. Voilà !
The last from this two hour walk shows the grand buildings on the waterfront, often referred to as "The Three Graces". The grand Port of Liverpool building on the right...the iconic Liver Building on the left, and between those, the Italianate splendour of the Cunard Building.
Today,Queen Mary 2, the flagship of the Cunard fleet is berthed just outside here...think I will go and welcome her.
Take a ferry over the Mersey to Liverpool. The tide can rise and fall over 10ft each tide, so the landing stages are all floating.
Pano of 5 images.
The more than life-sized Beatles statue (2015) facing Liverpool's Pier Head is dwarfed by the "Three Graces" in the background, the somewhat baroque-ish Royal Liver Building of 1911, the Cunard Building of 1917 in its Italian renaissance style and, outside this image, the Port of Liverpool Building of 1907 (Edwardian Baroque). Together with a couple of museums and the Tate Gallery on the Pier Head, this assemblage tells the story of Liverpool's considerable maritime and mercantile prowess and its international cultural importance. Interestingly, I found the "spirit" in this attractive city to be decidedly unpretentious and egalitarian through and through. Fuji X100F.
Opened in 1911, Designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas, the foundation stone for the building was laid on 11 May 1908.
The building is crowned by a pair of clock towers: as a ship passed along the river, mariners could tell the time from these. The clocks were made by Gent and Co. of Leicester. The clock faces are 7.6 m (25 ft) in diameter, larger than those of London's famous landmark, the Great Westminster Clock, holding the distinction of being the largest electronically driven clocks in the UK
Liverpool Skyline from Sunday evening 's shoot . MV Royal iris , just having arrived at the Pier head , from her cruise from Salford Quays Manchester through the ship canal .
... so is the name of the fountain on the place of the Bource in Bordaux. A friend has made a perfect picture of this place and I thought I could do the same by using long exposure because this location is so overcrowded. So I was looking for the right position vis-a-vis of the fountain and was waiting and waiting and waiting... but these three young ladies won't leave. Oh no, never!
But... let me tell the truth....
The perfect picture isn't my passion, but creating the modern version of the 'Three Graces' under the old... ; ) A fine smile was crawling over my face...
Do you want to see the perfect version of a friend?
Here it is:
Well now ,apart from the sky I like this ..if i might say so myself !
QE came yesterday 2nd July to celebrate the 100 th Birthday of the opening of the Cunard Building (centre building with the flags on ). First time visit for a lady captain of the ship , she must have been thrilled to see such a beautiful waterfront ,as she was coming up the Mersey .
A view of the 'Three Graces' and the' Museum of Liverpool', taken from across the river Mersey at Birkenhead, UK. The area to the left, in front of the 'Liver Building' is also know as the 'Pier Head'.
The 'Three Graces' - The Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building - have defined one of the world’s most recognised skylines for years. In recent years the skyline has changed dramatically with the addition of the more modern Architectural Buildings, as seen on the left and right of the picture....!
As seen on Liverpool's famous waterfront, one of the 'Three Graces' with a tourist bus giving a spash of colour on an otherwise grey day.
Had to go to Egremont today for a medical. Decided to pop down to Seacombe for my daily exercise.
Storm Christoph dumping it's contents on Liverpool. Don't ever recall seeing cloud this dark or this low over the waterfront.
Wallasey, Wirral
I've quite a few panoramas on my hard drive but my laptop and software really struggled to process multiple images, let along stitch them together. The few I've tried have taken an eternity to appear on screen while it works it's magic in the background so I've never really pursued them. Since upgrading my system to a bigger, faster processor and a SSD drive for the operating system I thought I'd give it another go...
Taken on the way home from our trip to New Brighton for the lighthouse in January. This is a horizontal three frame panorama stitched together in Elements Photomerge with a 4:1 ratio crop. I do like whole numbers!
Grand buildings at the Pier Head, Liverpool ; Left to right...the classically domed Port of Liverpool building, the Art-Deco Mersey tunnel ventilation shaft, the Italianate Cunard building, and, of course, the famous Liver building.
From Right to left. Port of Liverpool Building; Cunard Building and Royal Liver Building. All three are Grade II listed Buildings and part of the UNESCO-designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City. All three are constructed in the first decade of the twentieth century built on reclaimed shore along the River Mersey.