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o Liverpool early Italian and Flemish works
to 20th-century art.
Liverpool. * 450,000. k 11 km
(7 miles) SE. g £ @ n Albert Liverpool’s Gothic-style
Dock (0151-233 2008). ( Sun. Anglican Cathedral, com pleted
∑ visitliverpool.com in 1978 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott,
is the world’s largest. The Roman
During the 17th and 18th Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral
centuries, Liverpool’s westerly of Christ the King (1962–7)
seaboard gave it a leading role is a striking circular building
Detail of a carving on the facade of Bishop in the Caribbean slave trade. surmounted by a stylized crown
Lloyd’s House, Chester After the city’s first ocean of thorns 88 m (290 ft) high.
steamer set sail from here in
i Chester 1840, would-be emigrants to E Tate Liverpool
Cheshire. * 125,000. £ @ the New World poured into Albert Dock. Tel 0151-702 7400.
n Town Hall, Northgate St the city, including a large Open daily. Closed Good Friday,
(0845-647 7868). ( Mon–Sat. number of Irish refugees Dec 24–26. 8 7
of the potato famine. E The Walker
First settled by the Romans in Liverpool’s waterfront is William Brown St. Tel 0151-478 4199.
AD 79, the main streets of overlooked by the well-known Open daily. Closed Jan 1, Dec 24 (from
Chester are now lined with Royal Liver Building. The 19th- 2pm), Dec 25 & 26. 8 by appt. 7
timber buildings, many dating century warehouses around
from the 13th and 14th Albert Dock have been
centuries. These are the redeveloped as museums, p Manchester
Chester Rows, which, with galleries, restaurants, and Manchester. * 2.5 million. k 18 km
their two tiers of stores and shops. Among these, the (11 miles) S. £ @ n Piccadilly
continuous upper gallery, Maritime Museum and Plaza, Portland Street (0871-222 8223).
anticipate today’s multistory Tate Liverpool, which ( daily.
shops by several centuries. houses one of the
Their oriel windows and best collections of Manchester is famous as a
decorative timber-work contemporary art pioneer of the industrial age,
are mostly 19th century. in England outside with its cotton-spinning
The facade of the of London, are well machines and early railways.
16th-century Bishop worth visiting. Among the city’s many fine
Lloyd’s House on Liverpool is famous 19th-century buildings are the
Watergate Street is as the home town Neo-Gothic cathedral, the Royal
the most richly carved of the phenomenally Exchange, now a theater and
in Chester. The Rows successful Beatles. restaurant, and the Free Trade
are at their most The Beatles Story Hall, now the Radisson Edwardian
attractive where is a walk-through Hotel, with only the original
Eastgate Street Clock tower of the Royal Liver exhibition which facade remaining. The Manch­
meets Bridge Street. Building, Liverpool charts their ester Ship Canal, opened in 1894,
A town crier calls meteoric rise is a magnificent engineering feat.
the hour and announces to fame in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and
news from the Cross – a One of the most prestigious Industry in Manchester captures
reconstruction of a 15th-century art galleries in the city is The the city’s spirit of industrial might
stone crucifix. South of here, the Walker. Paintings range from with a display of working steam
Grosvenor Museum explains
Chester’s history. To the north is
the cathedral. The choir stalls
have splendid misericords and
delicate spirelets on the
canopies. The cathedral is
surrounded on two sides by
high city walls, originally
Roman, but rebuilt at intervals.
Also worth seeing is the
Roman amphitheater just
outside town, built in AD 100.

E Grosvenor Museum
Grosvenor St. Tel 01244-972 197.
Open Mon–Sat, Sun pm.
Closed Jan 1, Good Fri, Dec 24–26.
7 limited. 8 Modern city blocks on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal
For hotels and restaurants see pp104–6 and pp107–9

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