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What to see by foot: Liverpool
    
Most of Liverpool's main attractions can comfortably be explored on foot, particularly
along the waterfront districts.
Albert Dock, five minutes' walk south of the Pier Head, was built in 1846 when
Liverpool's port was a world leader. It started to decline at the beginning
of the last century, as the new deep-draught ships were unable to berth here,
and last saw service in 1972. A decade later the site was given a complete scrub-down
and refit. Billed as 'Liverpool's Historic Waterfront', it includes a variety
of museums, including the Maritime Museum, HM Customs Museum and Museum of Liverpool
Life. A trip through the Merseyside Maritime Museum explores the history of
Liverpool's evolution as a port and shipbuilding centre. The neighbouring Tate
Gallery Liverpool is the country's national collection of modern art in the
north.
Many come to Liverpool to pay homage to the Beatles and there are several 'Beatles'
tours on offer, visiting well remembered places such as Strawberry Fields, Penny
Lane and the site of the Cavern, where they started out.
St George's Hall, is one of Britain's finest Greek Revival buildings. Once
Liverpool's concert hall and crown courts, its tunnel-vaulted Great Hall is
open to the public for monthly craft and antique fairs and for daily guided
tours in summer, when the exquisite floor, tiled with thirty thousand precious
Minton tiles, is on show.
Liverpool boasts some excellent galleries. The Walker Art Gallery houses one
of the country's finest provincial art collections, while the Lady Lever Art
Gallery has a small collection of English eighteenth-century furniture, Pre-Raphaelite
paintings and assorted Greek and Roman artefacts. Elsewhere in the city is the
recently renovated Liverpool Museum and Planetarium.
The Pier Head landing stage remains the embarkation point for the Mersey Ferries
to Woodside (for Birkenhead) and Seacombe (Wallasey). Ride one if only for the
magnificent views of the Liverpool skyline and the prominent, 322-feet high
Royal Liver Building.
Selection of hotels in this region:
Britannia Adelphi Hotel and Tate Gallery | | The Beatles Story (Britannia Adelphi) | | Britannia Adelphi Hotel (Room only) | | Travelodge Liverpool Central | | Radisson SAS Liverpool | | Liverpool Moat House | | Crowne Plaza Liverpool | | Liverpool Marriott Hotel South | | Britannia Adelphi Hotel | | Liverpool Marriott Hotel City Centre | | Liverpool Marriott Hotel South | | Village Hotel & Leisure Club, Whiston | |
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