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| The history of the Port of Liverpool goes back several hundred years and as a staging post for emigration saw a huge rise in the number of travellers passing through. Before those days sailors from all over the world came to know the taverns and doss houses that were similar to those in any port. The legacy is a polyglot community whose origins are continually refreshed by newcomers, in these days more likely to be students than mariners. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Most visitors to Liverpool probably arrive by road, but a steady increase in the number of overseas visitors has occurred in since easyJet started services from Liverpool John Lennon Airport which now handles several million passengers a year. See my John Lennon Airport page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transport to and from Liverpool is split into three categories. Land covering the local transport, motorways and rail. Sea where the Mersey Ferry, and the Isle of Man Ferry ply. Air is mostly related to Liverpool John Lennon Airport but also Manchester International which is only 35 miles away. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Mersey Ferry "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" as the song goes is a jingle made popular by Gerry and the Pacemakers in the Sixties at the height of the popularity of the 'Mersey Sound'. You will not be disappointed when you take a trip on this famous method of transport as the running commentary includes part of the song. For 700 years the only way of crossing the great river, but now mostly a tourist attraction, the ferry is still used by commuters, but you are unlikely to see pigs, goats or chickens! |
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| The Liverpool Ferry Terminal at the Pier Head which was destroyed in a gale in late 2005. The floating landing stage was ripped off its moorings by an exeptionally high tide and hopefully will be replaced by 2008. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The magnifucent Victorian Lime Street Station building which was restored in the late 1990's. Unfortunately a nasty sixties parade of shops and an ugly tower block remain in front, but these are scheduled to be demolished and the concourse replaced. | Across the road from the station is St Georges Hall and the buildings of the cultural quarter. The overall effect is stunning and a far cry from the day in 1974 when I first arrived to a vista of shabby black buildings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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