Liverpool castle, by William Gawin Herdman - Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool (1878), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129206632

Liverpool Castle

For centuries Liverpool's defining feature was not its ports or grand civic buildings, but its castle. Where was it? What happened to it? Is there anything left of it?

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Liverpool's famous three graces

Pier Head

For centuries, this has been the landing point for shipping from all over the world. Millions left this sight behind on their way to a new life in the Americas.

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St George's Hall 19th Century lithograph

St George's Hall

The deeply impressive neoclassical St George's Hall stands proudly at the centre of the city's cultural quarter, giving a magnificent first imrpession to anyone arriving at Lime Street Station.

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