Tour of Liverpool, England, part 2 - P.M.

The old Nordic Chapel that served many merchant sailors from Scandinavia. This photo is out of order - it is near the docks where we ended our tour at the end of the day. 

We departed St James Cathedral and strolled through the city headed ultimately for the docks.

This is a plaque inside the Symphonic Music Hall commemorating the musicians on the Titanic who continued to play soothing music as the ship sank. Powerful.

Look at the lettering in the white blocks dividing the upper and lower windows, and the designs in the upper windows to figure out what this building is. A fairly old specimen.

Wish we had time to take this one-hour driving tour of the city with the Yellow Duck.

The driver was quite humorous. We'll see one of these vehicles again later...

Lunch stop at Cuthbert's.

Check out the third special down from the top. They must have known I was coming for a visit. Apparently it is a creamy dessert - I didn't try one.

Instead I went for the homemade chocolate cake with fresh cream and a glass of milk.

We had our lunch of soup and sandwich out in the sunny backyard.

Then next door for a rest and digest our tummies while browsing for books.

Gerrod, the owner, gave KT a silver coin for luck when he found out she was getting married next month. They were  kindred spirits and chatted the whole time.

I couldn't resist taking this picture of a miniature Statue of Liberty above the bar sign. We actually did go into two old pubs to look at their ornate ceiling designs.

Lime Street Train station.

A magnificent stained glass window in the St George Court Building

The large Hall below the stained glass window.

How about this elegant toilet with an old fashioned pull chain.

Downtown was emptying out since it was close to 5 P.M.

What a ceiling!

The Liver Building down near the docks. The Liver Bird is a mythical creature that looks very much like a cormorant. There is a Liver Bird at the top of each end of the building.

The Dock Building...

An art deco Amelia Earhart. She was an American aviator who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while flying around the world.

City Hall

Looking back from the seawall along the Mersey River. The Dock Building on the right had some beautiful architecture outside and inside...

In the main lobby, looking up to second floor. Read the sentence...

...then look up to the inside of the dome several floors up...

Taken while I was standing and looking up...

Taken while I was lying on floor dead center.

The Albert Docks. Liverpool's wealth was built on the slave trade, and later cotton and lumber, as well as passengers.

This statue is in memory of the thousands of Latter Day Saints who took ship from Europe on their way to America in the 1800's.

Another Yellow Duck finishing its tour...

...with a splash!

They are old World War II amphibious vehicles. The drivers are very entertaining as we could hear him putting the fear and fun into the tourists just before they splashed.

You can see St James Cathedral in the background. We walked several miles this day.

We walked back to Carol's clinic where we met her son Lawrence who is a history lecturer. He begins work on his PhD this year.